FOI request (FOIR-768313589)

Roundabouts repainted

Requested Tue 25 November 2025
Responded Wed 26 November 2025

For the period from 1st July 2025 to the latest date for which records are held at the time of your search (please state the end date used), please provide:

1. Total recorded spend incurred by the Council for repainting roundabouts (including planned maintenance and reactive works), broken down where held by: staff time/recharge rates, contractor costs, vehicles/plant/materials, traffic management, disposal/waste, overtime.

a. The number of jobs/incidents where roundabouts were repainted, with date and ward or postcode sector for each (no exact addresses required).

2. The job/incident category codes and cost centre/recharge codes used for these works (for example, road markings, white lining, circulatory carriageway, roundabout).

3. The current schedule of rates (or equivalent) used by the Council and/or its contractor(s) for road-marking/white-lining works specifically applicable to roundabouts (for example per metre/per square metre rates, mobilisation, traffic management).

4. Any policy/guidance/SOP in force during the period for inspection, prioritisation and repainting of roundabout markings and associated surfacing, including the legal basis (for example, Highways Act 1980 s41 duty to maintain, Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016, Traffic Signs Manual – Chapter 5 (Road Markings), UKRLG 'Well-managed Highway Infrastructure').

If you do not hold a discrete 'roundabout' category, please extract cases recorded under road markings/white lining/traffic signs and lines where the free-text notes contain 'roundabout', 'RB', 'circulatory', 'island' or any likely similar keyword for the period.

If the request would exceed the appropriate cost limit, please:

a. Provide items (1) and (2) as aggregated totals for the period.

b. Provide (3)–(5) in full.

c. Advise what shorter date range or narrower category would be disclosable within the limit.

Under s11 FOIA (and Reg 6 EIR, if applicable), please supply datasets in CSV or Excel (and PDFs for any policies/rates).

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Response

Information not held.

All aspects of roads and footpaths, including roundabouts, are dealt with by East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk