The council has been praised after it emerged its roads team is one of the fastest in the country to respond to reports of dangerous potholes.

Research from the RAC Foundation showed Bracknell Forest Council (BFC) takes just one hour to send out a team to assess the damaged roads.

This means the council is in the top 20 in the country from 190 highways authorities for responding to reports.

Sebastian Navaranjan, principal engineer at BFC, said: “Bracknell Council deals with reported dangerous potholes by issuing 1-hour call out instructions to our term highways contractor to make the location safe.

“The council has adopted the ‘risk-based’ approach for dealing with potholes and other highway defects including highway electrical apparatus reported to the council by members of the public and those identified during the scheduled safety inspections of our streets and footways.”

Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, said: “It is good to see that the vast majority of local highway authorities are adopting the best practice ‘risk-based’ approach recommended by the UK Roads Liaison Group, which is putting the risk to road users front and centre alongside the potential for a defect to develop into a bigger structural problem.

“The total number of potholes being filled in might still be limited by a shortage of funding, but this approach at least means those that are most dangerous are fixed first.

“Those particularly vulnerable to potholes – cyclists and motorcyclists – might ask whether the speed of pothole investigation should be based solely on the risk to users.”

Authorities in Flintshire, Cumbria and South Lanarkshire were rated as the best in the United Kingdom after research found they attend to calls immediately.

If you live west of Bracknell though, you could expect to wait a little bit longer to see a pothole being worked on.

Wokingham Borough Council takes two hours to send out a team to dangerous road dips.

Go further west and you will have to wait even longer as Reading Borough Council takes three hours to respond to reports.

It’s the same if you venture northeast as Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead also takes three hours to assess the damage.

However, Slough Borough Council, like BFC, takes just one hour to respond to potholes.

The worst authorities in the country take up three days to patch up dangerous roads.

Leicestershire, Cornwall and Bournemouth councils take 72 hours, 48 hours and 36 hours respectively.

In July the News reported that the council had spent £130,000 in 17 years compensating motorists affected by pothole damage in the borough.