A £5 million programme of road improvements across Bath & North-East Somerset is starting, as the council kicks off its 2026 resurfacing schemes.
The council is investing in highway maintenance and will also spend £950,000 resurfacing footways, alongside maintaining and making improvements to other assets like street lights, drains, public rights of way and bridges.
The council’s highway maintenance was ranked fourth out of 111 local authorities in the National Highways and Transport Network Satisfaction Survey, up from eleventh last year, reflecting the council’s ongoing efforts to improve its highway network.
The council has been reducing its carbon emissions as it carries out resurfacing. Last year two schemes were delivered using in-situ recycling, which uses the existing road material to form the new surface, and a carbon-neutral trial method was used in Whitchurch. This year the council will spend £600,000 to deliver four micro-asphalt surfacing schemes which produce fewer carbon emissions than conventional resurfacing.
Surveys and inspections conducted by the council’s highways team help identify and prioritise highways that need resurfacing, and this lays out the programme of work each year.
The council will be implementing Section 58 restrictions to each of the newly resurfaced roads which protects a road from certain utility works for up to three years and gives the council greater control over reinstatements if needed.
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Cllr Lucy Hodge, cabinet member for sustainable transport delivery, said: “Keeping our roads in good condition is one of the things residents rightly expect from us, and we are committed to delivering it through planned programmes like this as well as smaller reactive work our teams are out doing each day, like fixing potholes and carrying out inspections.
“Potholes can form quickly during winter with wet and cold spells, which has a big impact on road surfaces. Our highways teams have been working flat out fixing potholes, with 3,790 repaired since January, a five-year high.”
Immediate plans
Resurfacing works will run from now until the end of summer, before cold and wet weather makes resurfacing more difficult.
The full programme is on the council’s website: https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/find-planned-street-works
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