Roadworks across Somerset until April

Somerset County Council has published a list of every road across the county which will have major maintenance work carried out upon for the remainder of the financial year.

The work is being carried out in addition to the council’s surface dressing and grass cutting programmes, and has been integrated with its existing travel and roadworks portal Travel Somerset.

The new facility details work being carried within the council’s structural maintenance programme, which runs until April 2019 in its current form.

Councillor John Woodman, cabinet member for highways, said: “We’ve worked hard to make it easier for people to find out what’s happening on our roads.

“We started by offering live travel alerts using Twitter and then created the Travel Somerset website to improve the quality and reliability of our roadworks information.

“This summer we’ve added our surface dressing and grass cutting programmes to the website, and now you can see all the structural maintenance work we have planned for the next financial year.

“This is another welcome resource and we’ve got plans for more in the months to come.”

There are five classes of roadworks which will be carried out on Somerset’s roads in this period:

Principal resurfacing

Non-principal resurfacing

Footways

Drainage

Earthworks

Somerset major roadworks map

Principal resurfacing typically involves major A-roads and entails either resurfacing large areas of the carriageway or reconstructing it if it shows signs of “significant structural failure”.

Work of this kind will be typically done at off-peak times, and road closures may be needed.

Here is a list of all the locations which will be subject to this kind of resurfacing:

A30 Chard Road, Crewkerne

A30 East Street/ Yeovil Road, Crewkerne

A3027 Staplegrove Road, Taunton

A361 Slait Hill to Haygrove Lane

A362 Christchurch Street West, Frome

A362 Vallis Road, Frome

A37 Bath Road to Kilver Street Hill, Shepton Mallet

A371 Anchor Hill roundabout, Wincanton

A371 Holbrook roundabout, Wincanton

A38 East Gate/ East Reach, Taunton

A39 Bath Road, Bawdrip

A39 Bath Road, Bridgwater

A39 Main road, Carhampton

A39 Main Street, Walton

A39 Minehead to Williton Road, Old Cleeve

A39 Williton to Bridgwater Road, East Quantoxhead

Ilminster Road, Taunton

Non-principal resurfacing covers the same procedures and level of resurfacing on B-roads and other smaller routes. Work in these locations will also be carried out at off-peak times and may result in road closures.

The following locations will be subject to non-principal resurfacing:

Admiralty Way/ Creechbarrow Road/ Roman Road, Taunton

B3139 Bath Road (Whitnell Corner)

B3153 Cary Road, Alford

B3165 Stapleton Road, Martock

B3167 High Street, Wellington

B3170 Honiton Road, Corfe

B3191 Brendon Road/ South Road, Watchet

Bath View, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

Blagdon Lane, Brompton Regis

Broadway/ Merriott Road, Merriott

Butleigh Road, Glastonbury

Castle Street/ Monkton Lane, Stogursey

Catcott Broad Drove, Burtle

Catsford Lane, Dulverton

Chapel Road, Pawlett

Chibbet Post, Exford

Church Road, Bawdrip

Church Street, Coleford

Common Road, Wincanton

Coronation Road, Highbridge

Dene Road, Cotford St Luke

Edington Road, Burtle

Farm Lane, nr Buckland St Mary

Friarn Avenue, Bridgwater

Galmington Close, Taunton

George Street, Wellington

Hankridge Way, Taunton

Hannay Road, Cheddar

High Street/ North Street, North Petherton

Idson Lane, Stogursey

Lisieux Way, Taunton

Lyde Road, Yeovil

Main Street, Ash

Manor Farm Road/ Green Acre Lane, Mudford

Market Street, Wells

Middlemead, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

Moorland Place, Taunton

Pool Cross to Cloutsham Gate, Luccombe

Portway Avenue, Wells

Princes Street/ Queen Street, Taunton

Red Road, Berrow

Saint Michael’s Avenue, Yeovil

Saint Michael’s Close/ The Cross, Buckland Dinham

Somers Hill/ Old Wells Road junction, Mells/ Whatley

Southwood Grove, Taunton

Sparrow Road, Yeovil

Stocklinch Road, Whitelackington

The Mead, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

West Street, Minehead

Work being done on footway encompasses improvements to pavements, kerbs and verges.

All of the following areas will be upgraded this year:

A3038 Station Road, Taunton

A358 High Street, Williton

A361/ Charlton Road, Shepton Mallet

A367 Fosseway, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

A39 Bath Road, Bawdrip

A39 Minehead to Williton Road, Old Cleeve

Adscombe Avenue, Bridgwater

Avenue Road, Frome

B3136 West Shepton, Shepton Mallet

B3139 Bath Road, Emborough

B3139 Bath Road, West Horrington

B3187 Waterloo Road, Wellington

Babcary Lane, Babcary

Back Lane, Rodney Stoke

Bath View, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

Blakes Road, Bridgwater

Bovet Street, Wellington

Burroughes Avenue, Yeovil

Carrington Way, Wincanton

Cedar Grove, Yeovil

Coronation Street/ Summerlands Road, Chard

Elms Close, Taunton

Fairway Rise, Chard

Furzehill, Chard

Garston Road, Frome

Glynswood, Chard

Haines Hill, Taunton

Hartley Way, Taunton

Henson Park, Chard

Hervey Road, Chard

Lodge Hill, Westbury-sub-Mendip

Marshfield Road, Minehead

Mary Road, Wells

Middlemead, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

Newbarn Park Road, Taunton

Northbrook Road, Cannington

Old Vicarage Gardens, South Petherton

Osborne Road, Bridgwater

Parkfield Road, Taunton

Penn Road/ Fairlands  Way/ Millbourne Road/ Frogland Way, Cheddar

Pine Avenue, Chard

Pyles Thorne, Wellington

Quantock Avenue, Bridgwater

Rhode Lane, Bridgwater

Saint Mary’s Road/ Oxenpill, Meare

Saint Michael’s Avenue, Yeovil

Saint Michael’s Close, Buckland Dinham

Saint Michael’s Road, Minehead

Sub Road, Butleigh

Swallowcliffe Gardens, Yeovil

Taylor’s Orchard, Chiselborough

The Hayes, Cheddar

The Mead, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

Thorndun Park Drive, Chard

Tor View Avenue, Glastonbury

West View/ Cooks Close, Creech St Michael

Woodland Road, Watchet

Drainage work covers a wide range of repairs, including replacing pipes, improvements to drains, gullies and culverts to make water drain away faster, and preventing water from getting into the road itself and causing cracks and potholes.

The following areas will see some drainage repairs over the coming months:

A361 Doulting Hill to Farm Road, Doulting

A37 Bristol Road/ High Street, Ston Easton

A378 Langport Road, North Curry

A38 Bridgwater Road, West Monkton

A39 Chewton Hill, Chewton Mendip

Allotment Road, Sutton Montis

Ashford Lane, nr Spaxton

B3081 Dropping Lane, Bruton

B3145 Charn Hill, Charlton Horethorne

Bishops Hill, Stawley

Burcott Lane, Wells

Chibbet Post, Exford

Cudworth Street, Cudworth

East Street, Milborne Port

Ham Hill Road, Odcombe

Higher Combe Drive, Dulverton

Hinton Blewitt Lane/ Litton Lane, Litton

Honiton Road, Trull

Lipe Hill Lane, Trull

Lower Godney, Godney

Lower Merridge, Courtway

Main Street, Ash

Main Street, Chaffcombe

Main Street/ Bakers Lane, Barrington

Mill Lane to Old Way Gate, Ilton

Northmoor Hill, Dulverton

Old Wells Road, Glastonbury

Podimore Lane, Yeovilton

Pound Lane, Oakhill

Primrose Hill, East Coker

Road Lane, Treborough

Slade Lane, Hawkridge

Taunton Road, Wellington

Warminster Road/ Frome Road, Beckington

West Sedgemoor Road, North Curry

Whatley Road, Otterford

Earthworks cover the repair and rebuilding of embankments holding up or adjacent to the road, as well as work involving ground anchors, netting and securing gabion walls (walls made of metal cages containing rocks).

The following areas will be affected by earthworks this year:

B3227 Wiveliscombe Road, Norton Fitzwarren

Bower Lane, Bridgwater

C200, Exton to Brompton Regis

Challick Lane, Wiveliscombe

Cutliff Close/ Sherford Road, Taunton

Lower Vexford to Leigh Farm, nr Stogumber

Mill Lane, Bishop’s Lydeard

Silver Lane, East Woodlands

Stoddens Lane, Burnham-on-Sea

For more information on roadworks in your area, including start dates for individual schemes, visit www.travelsomerset.co.uk/structural-maintenance.