Road works improvement programme
You can view progress on our annual road works improvement programme. This includes the following types of road works:
- Resurfacing and reconstruction works
- Road surface works
- Footway works
- Traffic works
- Sign replacement, street lighting and drainage works
View roads maintenance programme report
You can also view roads maintenance programme reports in a pdf format.
Road work types explained
Resurfacing and reconstruction works:
- HRA inlay – removal of existing surface and inlay using Hot Rolled Asphalt (HRA) material
- Bitmac overlay – overlaying existing road surface with bitmac material
- Edge strengthening – removal of existing surface and relay using bitmac or Hot Rolled Asphalt (HRA) material
- Surface dressing works – application of emulsion and stone chips to road surface
- Surface dressing preparation works (Prep works) – patching works to the road surface which is required prior to the surface dressing works (it may be carried out up to 12 months in advance of the dressings works)
- Renew high friction surfacing – replacing specialised high friction surface at strategic locations such as bad bends, junctions or pedestrian crossings
- New footway – entirely new section of footway (for example edge of village)
- Kerb repairs and surface footway – repairs to existing footway including road edge kerbing a new bitmac surface
- Slurry seal – application of a 6mm layer of bitumen onto the existing footway surface
- Slurry seal preparation – patching works to the footway surface prior to the slurry seal works (this may be carried out up to 12 months in advance of the slurry seal works)
- Road markings and reflector studs – works to maintain existing road markings and reflector studs
- Pedestrian guard rails – works to maintain existing railings
- Pedestrian crossings and furniture – works to maintain existing pedestrian crossings and street furniture (such as traffic barriers, bollards, street lamps, traffic lights and signs)
Sign replacement, street lighting and drainage works:
- Renew traffic signs, bollards and direction signs – works to renew existing traffic signs, bollards which are broken damaged or faded
- New traffic signs – entirely new traffic signs, additional to existing infrastructure
- Renew street name plates – renewal of existing street name plates that are broken damaged or faded
- Drainage works – works associated with maintaining the road drainage infrastructure including installation of pipework and road gulleys
- Lighting works – works to renew existing street lights including upgrading light source to LED