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Twice as much money is to be spent on dealing with potholes in roads across Crouch End, Hornsey, Highgate, Muswell Hill and other Haringey Borough towns.

Haringey Council has promised to double its investment on maintaining the borough's road network to tackle the aftermath of the harshest winter in 30 years

The severe weather has caused unprecedented damage to Haringey's roads including a dramatic increase in the number of potholes. An extra £1m will be added to the planned roads maintenance budget of £1m for 2010 and 2011 to deal with the unprecedented number of pothole repairs and to fix extensive damage with localised reconstruction and resurfacing.

Claire Kober, leader of the council, said: "Our teams have been working flat out to put the damaged roads right after the severe weather. However, we recognise the size of the issue is such that we must redouble our efforts.

 "We will use this extra investment to keep right on top of the large volume of potholing work and to target investment on roads that need substantial repairs such as resurfacing,” the councillor added.

The council has also announced that some of the worst hit roads will be completely resurfaced under a new rolling repairs programme, which will start from next week (Monday 8 March).