The council is set to benefit from a roadworks funding boost set up by the government.

Bracknell’s roads will be given more than £750,000 worth of support after the Department of Transport announced plans to distribute £420m to help councils across the country fight potholes.

Councillor Chris Turrell, executive member for planning and transport at Bracknell Forest Council, said: “Additional funding for our roads is always welcome, and we will use it wisely.

“I am pleased the government have recognised the importance to road users of improving and maintaining our highway network”.

The funds are set to be spent on filling potholes, repairing bridges and other highways improvements.

Pothole activist Mark Morrell – also known as Mr Pothole – told the News the funds came at the wrong time of the year because of the difficulty of doing repair works in winter.

He said: “This would be welcome news if councils had an advance warning.

“Now council’s will be trying to spend money at the wrong end of the year.

“Any money is welcome and it should make some difference, but it is the wrong time of the year to do it.

“It is poor planning and it is short-termism.”

The News reported in July that the council was forced to pay out £130,000 in compensation to drivers who were affected by potholes in Bracknell from 1998-2015.

The highest payout came in the 2006/2007 financial year when Bracknell Forest Council paid out £26,363.66 to motorists for damages.

However none of the new money will be spent on paying out for compensation claims.

The £754,000 needs to be spent before the next financial year begins in April 2019, meaning the council has just more than five months to fix roads, bridges and other highway issues.

On this year’s annual local authority road maintenance, the council outlined £10m worth of repairs being needed to be made in the next five years.