A COUNCILLOR has won his three year campaign to have a pothole-ridden road resurfaced.

Cllr Christopher Peacock is delighted that £176,000 is being spent repairing Tempest Road in Chew Moor, Westhoughton.

Cllr Peacock first campaigned for the road to be repaired when he was first elected to the council in 2011.

Amid swingeing council budget cuts and other roads being prioritised ahead of it, Tempest Road is finally set for a much-needed makeover.

Cllr Peacock said: "This area has not been repaired for as long as I can remember. Potholes are always just filled in, and soon they pop open again.

"It has fallen into disrepair because of the amount and nature of traffic using it.

"I am absolutely delighted that the road is now going to be resurfaced. It was a goal that I set when I was made a local councillor."

The road forms part of the council's annual programme, and was earmarked in July to be one road surface repaired by the end of March.

Cllr Peacock added: "It has become one of those roads that people have just accepted locally as being rubbish to drive on.

"But that is not good enough. We should be trying our best to improve the roads here.This will make a real difference."

"We have had St John's Road resurfaced and other large areas of road. I have been asking 'why is this not being done while other areas have been?'.

A council spokesman confirmed the work was due to take place: "We go out and inspect the condition of roads regularly. The work in Tempest Road will be completed by the end of the next financial year."

In June, it was announced that Bolton would receive more than £700,000 to help fix potholes.

The Department for Transport said the council was set to get £393,335 from the pothole funding allocation on top of a weather repair fund set in March of £309,888.

It stipulated that all repair work must be completed by the end of March 2015 - and the government has said councils will need to publish quarterly updates to let residents know how many potholes or roads have been resurfaced with the funding.

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said improving the country’s roads would in turn help the growth and prosperity of areas like Bolton.

He added that potholes were the bane of all our lives and the funding announced is an "important step in ridding our roads of this menace."