COUNCIL GREEN CLAIMS KEPT IN CHECK

Green claims for recompense following repairs to local roads and roads infrastructure damaged by third parties are also issued by councils.

The Local Government Association doesn’t collect green claims data, but a freedom of information request submitted to Devon County Council in 2020 revealed that the council had issued 101 green claims for repair costs. However, it had successfully recovered only 56 of them, worth a total of £112,000.

Extrapolated across England’s 24 county councils, this suggests that each year up to £3 million may be recovered from drivers and insurers.

Since much of the repair work is done by councils’ own highways departments, it should be safe to assume the incidences of overcharging are at a minimum.