Road improvements planned thanks to additional investment
Roads in each of the county’s market towns are being resurfaced thanks to additional investment of £1.75m. Each of the market towns has £350k allocated for road resurfacing work and other safety improvement schemes, which are set to take place over the coming months.
The schemes will include resurfacing, patching, safety barrier improvements, structural and drainage improvements, vegetation clearance, and white line repair. Works have already started in Ross-on-Wye, and further works in the other Market Towns will take place in September and October.
The following road closures for resurfacing works have been published by the Town Council:
Ryefield Road at the junction with Weston Grove – resurfacing works under a full road closure, starting on Tuesday 20th September 2022 to (and including) Wednesday 21stSeptember. The road will be closed between 9am and 5pm each day. Due to the nature of the works, on-street parking will be restricted within the works area. BBLP will do all they can to provide access to properties.
Springfield Road – resurfacing works under a full road closure, starting on Wednesday 21st September 2022 to (and including) Monday 26thSeptember. The road will be closed between 9am and 5pm each day. There will be no work taking place over the weekend. Due to the nature of the works, on-street parking will be restricted within the works area. BBLP will do all they can to provide access to properties.
Woodland View – resurfacing works under a full road closure, starting on Monday 19thSeptember 2022 to (and including) Tuesday 20th September. The road will be closed between 9am and 5pm each day. Due to the nature of the works, on-street parking will be restricted within the works area. BBLP will do all they can to provide access to properties.
Kyrle Street – resurfacing works under a full road closure, starting on Wednesday 28th September 2022 to (and including) Friday 30thSeptember 2022. The road will be closed between 9am and 5pm each day. The fully signed diversion route is via Trenchard St / Greytree Rd / Brookend St and vice versa. Due to the nature of the works, on-street parking will be restricted within the works area. BBLP will do all they can to provide access to properties.
Purland -resurfacing works under a full road closure, starting on Tuesday 27th September 2022 to (and including) Thursday 29thSeptember 2022. The road will be closed between 9am and 5pm each day. Due to the nature of the works, on-street parking will be restricted within the works area. BBLP will do all they can to provide access to properties.
Duxmere Drive – resurfacing works under a full road closure, starting on Monday 26thSeptember 2022 to (and including) Tuesday 27th September. The road will be closed between 9am and 5pm each day. The fully signed diversion route is via Duxmere Drive / Roman Way and vice versa. Due to the nature of the works, on-street parking will be restricted within the works area. BBLP will do all they can to provide access to properties.
Cllr John Harrington, Cabinet Member Infrastructure and Transport, said: “This additional investment is excellent news for our highways network, particularly in the market towns. The Council carries out extensive monitoring, maintenance and proactive improvements to our roads in accordance with the Highways Maintenance Plan, which tends to favour higher speed roads to the detriment of urban streets.
“We have to use our yearly roads budget, severely reduced as it is, in this way and using this safety matrix or we risk getting even less funding from central government. So this extra funding really helps us to make sure market town road surfaces are finally getting some long overdue TLC and are not left behind.
“We have secured these budgets after lobbying from County and town Cllrs, and difficult as it is to find the extra funding, we realised it was important to the towns and their residents to get some resurfacing done.”