WISE — live network data
The council's highway data hub, in one place. Pick a section to explore.
Overview
Headline stats, response by priority (P1–P4), and where repair methods are being used.
My area
Search a parish for its full picture — defects, drainage, road condition and more, all in one report.
Map
Every completed and scheduled repair, plotted on a real map.
Road condition
HEAT-scored carriageway sections and the resurfacing priority list.
Drains & gullies
Gully inspections, flow issues, and what's actually clogging the network.
Winter gritting
Treatment log, live simulated gritter tracking, and salt usage.
Track a report
Look up a specific report by reference, road or parish.
Report an issue
Report a new highway problem — category, location on the map, and a photo.
Forward programme
What's scheduled, when, and the permit status of each scheme.
Transparency & spend
Network scale, road condition trend, spending, and the annual works programme.
WNConnect
News, updates and live network information from West Northamptonshire Highways & Transport — one place for site visits, scheme updates, the winter gritting picture, and the WISE data hub itself.
Latest from the service
Articles
Micro, Mini and Standard articles — the same three tiers the service uses to keep sign-off proportionate to reach: unsigned weekly notes up to full quarterly features with Kier Group and WNC sign-off.
Highway Maintenance newsletter
A preview of what the next send looks like — built automatically from the same data and articles as the rest of the site.
What's happening on the network
A rolling snapshot of highway defects, drainage inspections and asset work across the borough. Figures below cover the sample period, 1 August – 17 September 2026.
Defects received vs completed
Parishes with the most open defects
| Parish | Open |
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Response by priority
P1–P4 are the council's core response bands, each with its own target: P1 within 24 hours, P2 within 7 days, P3 within 28 days, P4 within 26 weeks.
Repair methods in use
Where each repair technology has been deployed, drawn from crew site-visit records matched to a job location. Only of logged method visits in this sample also matched a geocoded job — treat this as an indicative pattern, not a full picture.
Area repaired, by method
| Method | Visits | Patches | Total m² | Avg m² / visit |
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Based on all logged method visits in the sample (not only the geocoded subset shown on the map above), so figures here run larger than the map's point count.
My area
Search a parish or town to see everything logged there in one place — what's been fixed, what's still open, and where it all is.
Reported issues near you
Showing completed and scheduled works only, on a real map of the network.
Road condition & forward programme
Every carriageway section the council's HEAT (Holistic Evaluation and Assessment Tool) model has scored for possible resurfacing, drawn from the 2025 network condition survey. This is a separate system from the P1–P4 defect priorities elsewhere in this app — HEAT ranks planned resurfacing schemes, not reactive repairs.
No map here: this dataset records road name, ward and parish but not GPS coordinates, so sections can't be plotted without further geocoding work.
Sections flagged, by treatment
Programme cost, by treatment
HEAT score distribution
Higher scores indicate greater benefit relative to cost under the council's model — these sections rank higher for future programmes.
Most-flagged wards
Scheme priority list
Ranked by the model's scheme priority — lower numbers rank higher.
| Priority | Road | Ward | Treatment | Length (m) | Condition | Cost |
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Gully & drainage health
Built from cyclical gully inspections across the borough. "Flow issue" means the gully was not left running freely at the point of inspection; "not cleaned" means the node was left as found rather than cleared.
Where the assets are
Newly logged drainage assets with GPS coordinates in this sample — click a point for details.
Inspections carried out
Share left with a flow issue
Same time grouping as the chart on the left.
Condition on leaving site
What's found in the gullies
By parish
| Parish | Ward | Inspections | Flow issue | Not cleaned |
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Winter gritting log
Every treatment decision made by the duty officer, with the rationale behind it. Sample covers November 2025 gritting activity.
Live gritter tracking — simulated
A working preview of what live fleet tracking could look like on this site, once gritters are fitted with GPS telematics. The five routes and vehicle positions below are simulated, not real — no gritter data is currently fed into this system.
Fleet status (simulated)
Treatments over time
Track a report
Search by reference number, road name or parish to see where a report stands.
Report a highway issue
Tell us what's wrong and roughly where. Council teams triage every report and assign a priority band before scheduling work.
1. What's the problem?
2. Where is it?
3. Describe it
4. Your details (optional)
Only used if we need more information — not required to submit.
Concept only — nothing here leaves your device. A real version would create a job in the council's highway maintenance system.
Forward programme
Live from the council's works-tracking export — real scheduled dates, traffic management and permit status for upcoming construction. This is a different source from the Transparency tab's annual scheme list and from the HEAT road-condition model: this is the operational build schedule, updated as work is planned and permitted.
Schemes starting, by month
Permit status
By works category
What submitted GPS road sections could look like
A mockup, not real data: seven example schemes shown as line sections rather than single points, anchored to each parish's approximate centre. Once real GPS traces are submitted per scheme, the actual road alignment would render here instead.
All scheduled works
| Start | Site | Parish | Category | Duration | Permit | Link |
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Transparency & spend
The council's official Department for Transport highways maintenance transparency report — network scale, road condition, spending and the works programme, published annually. This is separate from the live operational sample shown elsewhere in this concept.
Source: West Northamptonshire Council, Local Highways Maintenance Transparency Report, last updated 14 September 2026. Read the full report ↗
The network we maintain
Road condition, 2023–2025
Green: good condition. Amber: may need maintenance soon. Red: poor condition, considered for maintenance.
A roads
B & C roads
U roads — % in poor (red) condition
Potholes & response times
| Priority | Target response |
|---|---|
| Emergency | 2 hours |
| P1 | 24 hours |
| P2 | 7 days |
| P3 | 28 days |
| P4 | 26 weeks |
See the Overview tab for how the sample data is actually performing against P1–P4 today.
What we spend, and where it comes from
2026–27 figures are projected.
Spend by asset type
Funding source
Planned works, 2026/27
The published forward programme of named schemes. Delegated minor-works budgets that fund works across the year, without a single named site, are included too.
| Category | Ward | Scheme / location | Planned start |
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