Lincolnshire Council will be receiving an additional £6.8m to repair potholes across the county.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced an additional £200 million would be spent on highways maintenance nationwide as part of his spring budget, released on Tuesday 14 March 14.

For Lincolnshire, this means that nearly £7m will be provided by the department of Transport to repair local roads.

However, Lincolnshire County Council say that the money doesn't go far enough.

While in Parliament on Wednesday, the Chancellor said: "Following a wet cold winter, I have received particularly strong representations about the curse of potholes.

However, Councillor Davies, Executive Member for Highways, has issued a statement explaining his disappointment as he felt more was needed to supplement the rising cost of material.

"This is welcome new from the budget and the money will be gratefully received for our county," he said.

"However, in real world terms of rising material costs and the increasing stresses put on our 5,500 mile, m mostly rural, roads network, this money is less than half that already removed year-on-year from our annual roads maintenance budget by the Govt.

"We have already gone to unprecedented measures to try to make up this huge gap between what we absolutely need maintain the roads in our county, and what we have been funded.

"A lot of hard work has been put in place by Lincolnshire County Council to have an extra £7 million put into the huge deficit from a combination of sources.

"Whilst we will ensure that this Govt money announced in the budget will be put to the best possible use across the county for the people of Lincolnshire, we continue our call to Govt to fully reinstate the missing £12.3 million of the funds we need to keep our county moving as it should."