Wiltshire councillors have called for more work on potholes.

Councillor for Pewsey Jerry Kunkler said town councillors felt roads in East Wiltshire are not receiving their fair share of treatment.

At the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee on May 23, he said: “At the area board last night at Pewsey we had an urgent item come up and two fellow members registered their dismay in the fact that they think the far East of Wiltshire has not been treated as fairly as anywhere else relating to potholes on the A342 and the B3087.

“I said I will raise it with cabinet for highways. I think it's just difficult the fact that the weather has been really bad and it's been unusual and we're not the only county, we're not alone.”

Councillor for Durrington Graham Wright has also been campaigning for more effort in fixing potholes and said at the meeting: “In my ward I've got what I would class as important large potholes that are not being repaired but I'm sure that we're on it and I know that I do believe that the leader has asked for more resource to go into it.”

He added later that the potholes had been fixed shortly after the meeting and said in a statement: “Wiltshire Council have taken 5 weeks to fill large potholes in Durrington.

"At long last it is good to see that Durrington Roads are now safer and whilst I travel the main roads of Wiltshire I note that Wiltshire Council are on the road to making them a safer place as well."

The Leader of Wiltshire Council, councillor Richard Clewer, said in response to the concerns at the meeting: “At the moment from the evidence I am getting we are just about keeping up with the potholes being reported but we've had such a bad winter that that means as they come through we're fixing the potholes that were reported last month but they’re emerging at quite a frightening rate so there is a backlog generated.

“We've done a lot of patching over the winter and some of it will hold up but let's be honest, much of it will need more significant warm repairs done now that the weather's improved.

“We are looking at making effective use right now of the extra £3.6 million the government gave us specifically for potholes."