If you attempted to make a payment to the Council between Thursday 29
May and Monday 2 June, please check your bank account to confirm the
transaction was successful. Due to a technical issue, some payments
may have been rejected. If your payment was not processed, please make
another attempt. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
We have planned dates for the 2025 to 2026 financial year, which may change.
We’ll confirm any work happening by posting letters to affected residents around 5 to 10 working days before the resurfacing starts.
The proposed dates are:
Cowper Avenue - 1 April - Completed
Byron Avenue East - 1 April - Completed
Gauntlet Road - 2 April - Completed
Albert Road - 3 April - Completed
Bawtree Close - 4 April - Completed
Tweedale Road - 9 to 11 April - Partly completed Thornton to Paisley Road
Welbeck Road - 14 April - Completed
Vale Road - 15 April - Completed
Wrayfield Road - 22 April - Completed
St.George's Road - 23 April - Completed
Welhouse Road - 24 April - Completed
Farmdale Road - 25 April - Postponed due to utility works
Hartland Road and Halesowen Road - 28 and 29 April - Completed
Mulgrave Road (between number 42 and 108) - 30 April to 2 May - Completed
Titchfield Road - 16 - 17 June
Mill Green Road - 18 - 19 June
Rose Hill - Night Works 23 - 24 June
Stafford Road - Night Works 25 - 27 June
Tweedale Road - Paisley Road to Middleton Road 26 - 27 August 2025
More dates will be added as they are agreed.
Planned work from the 2024 to 2025 financial year
Redford Avenue, Coulsdon - 27 March - Completed
Quarry Park Road - 2 April for 2 days - Completed
Vernon Road - 4 April for 2 days - Completed
Cecil Road - 5 April for 1 day - Completed
Rosebery Road - 8 April for 1 day - Completed
Pershore Grove - 9 April for 2 days - Completed
Benhill Wood Road - 10 April for 1 day - Completed
Nursery Road - 11 April for 1 day - Completed
Lavington Road - 12 April for 1 day - Completed
Henley Avenue - 15 April for 2 days - Completed
West Avenue - 17 April for 1 day - Completed
East Avenue - 18 April for 1 day - Completed
York Street - 19 April for 2 days, and reinstate speed cushions on 20 April - Completed
Florian Avenue - 22 April for 1 day - postponed due to clashing works
Watson Avenue - 23 April for 1 day - Completed
Warner Avenue - 24 April for 1 day - Completed
Waterloo Road - 25 April - Completed
Percy Road - 26 April for 2 days, and reinstate speed cushions on 27 April - Completed
Priory Road - 28 May for 3 days - Completed
Kingsmead Avenue - 29 May for 1 day - Completed
Avenue Road - 30 May for 2 days - Completed
Northdown Road - 3 June for 1 day - Completed
Dorchester Road (Morden) - 26th July for 1 day (borough boundary scheme in conjunction with the London Borough of Merton) - Completed
Manor Park Road - 28 October for 2 days, and reinstate speed cushions 29 October - Completed
Mill Lane / Butter Hill - 29 October for 1 day - Completed
Diamond Jubilee Way - 30 October for 2 days, and reinstate speed cushions - Completed 31 October
Dalmeny Road (Worcester Park) - 1 November for 1 day - Completed
Orchard Way - 4 November - Postponed due to clash of works.
Florian Avenue - 5th November - Postponed due to clash of works.
Wood Street - 6 November for 2 days, and reinstate speed cushions 7 November - Completed
Throwley Way / Benhill Avenue - postponed
Gomshall Avenue and Central Avenue - 21 and 22 February (with 22 being road hump reinstatement) - Gomshall Avenue Completed, Central Avenue postponed due to a water leak and will be rescheduled.
Gander Green Lane - 5 and 6 March (section between number 223 and number 281; nightworks start time to be confirmed, works on 6 March to reinstate speed cushions only) - Completed
Orchard Way - 10 March - Completed
Florian Avenue - 11 March - Completed
Byron Avenue - 12 March- Completed
Queen's Road - 19 March - Completed
Whitethorne Avenue - 31 March - Completed
What happens on the day
Work usually takes place between 8am and 5pm.
Sometimes we have to do work at night due to constraints in the location. If we need to do this, we’ll let affected residents know separately and tell you anything you need to do to prepare.
Parking and driving on the road during work
Before work starts, we’ll ask you not to park on the highway within the active working area. We’ll put signs up to tell you where the specific area is.
You will not be able to park on-street or access the area during the resurfacing.
Access
There might be brief periods when you cannot access your house or business. We’ll keep this to a minimum, and our crew will tell you before any restrictions.
Deliveries
If you have a delivery or something similar on the day work is taking place, tell one of the crew on site and they should be able to help you.
If we’ve moved your vehicle
We may have to move your vehicle if it’s in the working area when our crew starts.
If possible, we’ll move it somewhere within sight of where it was parked originally. If we have to move it further and you cannot find it, speak to the crew on site or call the contact centre.
Missing road markings
We may have been unable to do line marking if it was raining or the road surface was wet. We’ll add road markings as soon as we can.
If the surface is dry and a road marking is missing, tell us and we’ll fix it.
Heavy rain
Tarmac can be laid in light rain and on a damp surface. However, if there is heavy rain and standing water on the roads, sometimes we’ll have to pause work or stop for the day if it looks like it will not clear.
Hot weather
If the weather is really warm, it prevents the tarmac from cooling down enough to be driven on. We might extend road closures until 7pm to allow the material to set more before we reopen the road.
Examples of road resurfacing
Mill Lane junction with Butter Hill before
Mill Lane at its junction with Butter Hill had a damaged surface and faded road markings.
Mill Lane junction with Butter Hill after
The junction and the road on either side of the junction has been fully resurfaced.
How we decide which roads to resurface
Once a year, we carry out visual and AI-based inspections to assess the condition of road surfaces.
We’ll also consider other factors like:
how much it’s used
trip generators
whether it’s on a bus route
whether it’s a through route
This helps us prioritise which roads are most important to be resurfaced using our available budget.
We use this information alongside other data and factors to decide which roads will be part of our planned maintenance programme.
We also try to target and complete specific areas before considering other areas. For example, we may prioritise several bad roads within a specific area instead of one road somewhere else.
We look at around 1000 to 1100 roads every year, which is the majority of the borough’s roads. These surveys and inspections help shape the reports taken to Committee for the following year's programmes.
Preventing utility company streetworks
We’ll try and restrict utility companies from carrying out streetworks on roads we’ve resurfaced for up to 2 years after we’ve completed resurfacing work. These are known as Section 58 notices.
This is subject to the limits of the legislation of the Section 58 notices and the nature of any works put forward by utility companies.
This is something we do with all of our planned maintenance works to try and prolong their life by minimising third party works where possible.
