Highways

We are responsible for maintaining and improving the roads, footpaths, bridges (with the exception of railway bridges), street lights and traffic signals in Darlington. This includes 574km (366 miles) of roads, over 12,500 street lights, and 90 bridges (including culverts and subways).

Highway Schemes

All Darlington’s A, B and C roads are surveyed once a year by independent specialists using an expensive Surface Condition Assessment for the National NEtwork of Roads (SCANNER) machine to measure a range of road condition parameters. A quarter of the unclassified network is surveyed visually on a yearly basis by an independent inspector.

These surveys not only provide the government with a national performance indicator but are used by our Highway Engineers to produce a medium term (5 year) programme of work and also the yearly programme of work based on the available budgets.

List of schemes that will be carried out by highways in 2013/2014 [pdf document]

Potholes

Please visit our potholes page for more information about how we deal with and fix potholes.

Reporting a broken pavement / streetlight or an obstruction to a pavement or road

You can report these issues to us by emailing highways@darlington.gov.uk or calling 01325 388799. Please provide:

  • Street name
  • Location (for example: nearest house number)
  • Street light column number (if applicable)
  • Nature of the problem
  • Your name, address and telephone number in case we need to contact you if we have a query about your report

If you think it is an emergency - please call on 07860 809115 outside of working hours

Dropped kerbs / pavement crossings

To apply for a pavement crossing, please contact the highways department: highways@darlington.gov.uk or 01325 388741

The housing department have additional information for council housing residents.

A1(M) and A66

The A1(M) and A66 are maintained by the Highways Agency [external link]

Railway bridges

We are not responsible for maintaining railway bridges. Please contact Network Rail [external link] for help and advice.

Interesting facts
  • We are responsible for 574km (366 miles) of roads, equating to 3.3 million square metres of surfacing (not to mention the footpaths and verges!)
  • It would cost £545 million to replace this network
  • We resurfaced just over 100,000 square metres last year
  • We fill in an average of over 6000 potholes a year, although this rises to over 8000 when the winters are bad.
  • We filled 1252 potholes in April 2013.