The biggest resurfacing programme in at least four years comes to a close this month with a final specialist treatment on roads across Somerset.

Somerset Council’s contractor Kiely Bros has carried out 1,000,000 sqm of road surface dressing in the county, equivalent to 141 football pitches. The treatment is a greener and more cost-effective form of maintenance, helping to improve the road network whilst emitting significantly less carbon compared to alternative solutions.

Now a secondary treatment ‘Kiely Lock’ is being applied to further lock in loose chippings on the road surface and give the dressing the best possible life span. The works are likely to only take a few hours and the roads will be not closed or be under traffic management for the whole period stated below. Surface Dressing is very weather dependent and so time needs to be built in as a precaution.

Residents and emergency access will be maintained when the road is closed.

Kiely Lock sites and dates:

• B3081 Bruton Road, High Street and Creech Hill Road, Evercreech and Milton Clevedon closure – 14 and 15 September, 7am to 7pm
• Quantock Rise, Pawlett closure – 19 September, 7am to 7pm
• B3139 Blackford/ Mark Road, Mark – 19 and 20 September, 9am to 3.30pm
• Broadway, Hanning Road, Old A303, Horton and Green Lane, Stratton on the Fosse closure – 20 to 24 September, 7am to 7pm
• A3027 Staplegrove Road, Taunton – 22 September, 9.30am to 2pm
• A358 Obridge Viaduct, Taunton – 22 and 23 September, 7pm to 11.30pm
• Old Bristol Road and Dancing Cross to Holton Cross, Maperton – 23 to 27 September, 9.30pm to 3pm
• Holton Cross to Anchor Hill and Anchor Hill, Holton – 23 to 27 September, 9.30am to 3pm
• Stoke Road and East Street, Martock – 23 to 27 September, 9.30am to 3pm

Works under convoy, stop/ go working detailed below – 9am to 3pm unless stated.

• A37 Fosse Way, Lydford-on-Fosse – 16 to 20 September, 9.30am to 3pm
• A38 Pawlett Road, Pawlett – 18 to 22 September, 9.30am to 3pm
• A38 Bristol Road, Badgworth, Rooksbridge and East Brent – 18 to 22 September
• A370 Bridgwater Road and Weston Road, East Brent and Edingworth – 19 to 23 September
• A370 Weston Road, Lympsham and East Brent – 19 to 23 September
• A38 Exeter Road, Sampford Arundel and Wellington Without – 21 to 25 September
• A38 Wellington Relief Road, Wellington on 21 to 25 September, 7pm to 5am
• A358 Priorswood Road, Taunton – 22 September
• A38 Taunton Road, Thurloxton – 24 to 28 September
• A361 Main Frome Road and Marston Road, Trudoxhill and Frome – 25 to 29 September, 9.30am to 3pm
• A371 Bishops Park Way/ East Somerset Way and Long Street, St Cuthbert Out – 17 September, 9.30am to 3.30pm

Surface dressing is a nationally recognised maintenance technique for sealing a road, improving skid resistance, and preventing water getting under the surface. This is crucial to help stop potholes forming.

Somerset Council’s Lead Member for Highways and Digital, Councillor Richard Wilkins, said:

Surface dressing and surface treatments are critically important when it comes to prolonging the life of our roads and preventing the need for more invasive and costly intervention and reducing the likelihood of potholes forming.

For more information and to see an interactive map, visit the Council’s Surface Dressing page.

If you spot a problem on the road you can report it quickly and easily via the Council’s Report a problem on the road webpage.

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