If you’ve been driving around the Northern Beaches lately, you’ve probably noticed a pothole or two. The heavy and incessant rain not only creates new potholes and makes existing ones worse, but creates challenges for crews to fix them.

With a wet winter forecast, the situation is likely to persist in the months ahead and we are tasking extra crews to get on top of the backlog as soon as we see clear skies.

So far this year, residents have reported to Council more than 1,300 potholes across the local area. Our crews have already repaired 1,182 of these and are working to address the remaining as quickly as possible.

While potholes on local roads are managed directly by the Council, many of the reports we receive are for repairs on major arterial roads, including Pittwater Road, Barrenjoey Road and Wakehurst Parkway, which are managed by the NSW Government. 

Reporting potholes

If you see a pothole, please report it:

Council-managed roads 

Council manages the local roads that are not major arterial corridors. If the pothole is on a local Council-managed road, please report it so we can make sure it’s on our works schedule. 

NSW Government-managed roads

The following roads are managed by the NSW Government and they are responsible for their maintenance, including repairing potholes, so all potholes need to be reported directly to them: 

• Beach Road, Palm Beach
• Ocean Road, Palm Beach
• Barrenjoey Road, Palm Beach to Mona Vale
• Pittwater Road, Mona Vale to Manly
• Warringah Road
• Condamine Street (Brookvale to Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation)
• Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation and Myrtle Street overpass
• Forest Way
• Wakehurst Parkway
• Mona Vale Road 
• McCarrs Creek Road (From Terrey Hills to McCarrs Creek Reserve) 
• Liberator General San Martin Drive
• Sydney Road 
• Belgrave Street
• Manly Road
• Frenchs Forest Road, Seaforth