Local councillors have criticised Vale of Glamorgan Council after revealing that more than £100,000 of money for pothole repairs went unspent last year.

Figures reported to the Council's Corporate Performance and Resources Committee showed that £136,000 of Highways Improvements was unspent in 2022/23, 7% of the total budget.

Plaid Cymru councillor for Dinas Powys, Cllr Chris Franks, asked for an explanation of the underspend.

Cllr Franks said: "With roads across the Vale in a shocking state, it is astonishing that the Vale Council have underspent by so much in the past year.

"When money is put into a budget, we expect it to be spent in the year, especially when the Council so frequently tells us that it doesn't have enough resources to fix the roads.

"7% of the total budget is nearly a month's worth of work that hasn't been done. That could have fixed another 700 potholes across the Vale – up to 700 streets could have been improved if the money had been spent as intended.

"The Vale should stop telling us that they have no money for services when they're not spending what they have already allocated."