na, with my council you just go to the highways on bit their site and there is a section for reporting potholes, you then enter the road name (get off google maps if unsure of exact name) then it says describe exact location so use landmarks to describe how they can find it... then it says decsribe the damage, so i usually put 'massive crater opened in the road in line of traffic needs attention' that should be enough, then if you hit it when not concentrating in a few weeks and they havent sorted it they will have to pay... worth doing just in case they get worse...