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 – 14/15 September. Closure 7am to 7pm.
• Quantock Rise, Pawlett – 19 September. Closure 7am to 7pm.
• B3139 Blackford/ Mark Road, Mark 19/20 September 9.00am – 3.30pm
• Broadway, Hanning Road, Old A303, Horton and Green Lane, Stratton on the Fosse on 20 – 24 September. Closure 7am – 7pm
• A3027 Staplegrove Road, Taunton. 22 September 9.30am -2pm
• A358 Obridge Viaduct, Taunton on 22/23 September 7pm – 11.30pm
• Old Bristol Road and Dancing Cross to Holton Cross, Maperton on 23 – 27 September 9.30pm – 3pm
• Holton Cross to Anchor Hill and Anchor Hill, Holton on 23 – 27 September. 9.30am – 3pm
• Stoke Road and East Street, Martock on 23 – 27 September. 9.30am -3pm

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

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

If you do spot a problem on the road, you can alert us quickly and easily here: Report a problem on the road (somerset.gov.uk)
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