Gloucestershire County Council has treated more than 130 roads with resurfacing and surface dressing, covering more than 100 miles of the county’s roads.
Next year, the council will invest £10 million towards delivering our £100 million four-year commitment to continue improving Gloucestershire roads, with a greater focus in 2025/26 on tackling rural roads.
The investments have funded an extensive resurfacing programme, with teams working night and day, all year round, to resurface roads in the county’s urban and rural areas. This winter marks the completion of more than 130 resurfacing and surface dressing schemes for this year, covering more than 100 miles of road.
It’s one of the busiest times of year for the council’s highways teams. Alongside resurfacing, the impact of winter weather means they are dealing with critical road repairs across the county. During the spring, the drier conditions are typically better for planned and longer-lasting fixes plus the use of additional machinery which will be used to scale up operations.
A spray injection patching machine, which works at twice the speed of a conventional repair team, will be in action from the end of April 2025. A Roadmender will also be deployed, which covers patches of damaged road with a watertight surface made using recycled tyres.
Since April 2024 the county council has made 51,037 safety critical repairs including potholes.
Cllr Stephen Davies, Leader of Gloucestershire County Council said “We’re celebrating the big 100 and we’re not stopping there, we’re investing £100 million to improve more than 130 roads across more than 100 miles of our network. We’re racing to improve as many roads as possible and create better journeys for everyone Gloucestershire.”