Reading unveils £9m resurfacing plan
Last updated 22nd Sep 2020
Work to resurface hundreds of residential roads in Reading will begin on 2 October, with roads in the first phase of the scheme revealed below. Reading Borough Council is committing £9m to road and footway improvement work, which will see up to a third of Reading’s roads completely resurfaced.
The first 63 roads to be improved under the scheme will be completed by the end of March 2021. Hundreds more roads across Reading will benefit from surfacing improvements taking place over the next three years in response to residents’ calls for better roads.
A Citizens Panel survey conducted by the Council in November 2018 revealed that over 50% of respondents listed ‘better roads and pavements’ as top of their lists for improvements, and the Council has responded with the biggest programme of resurfacing it has ever undertaken.
The £9m investment from Reading Borough Council is focused on residential side roads, and will complement additional resurfacing work funded by the Department of Transport on major arterial routes throughout the Borough.
Cllr Tony Page, Reading Borough Council’s Lead Member for Strategic Environment, Planning and Transport, said: “The views of our residents are of paramount importance to us, and something that came through clearly from them was a desire for better roads in the town. Despite challenging times economically, we are delighted to reveal that tens of thousands of our residents, in hundreds of streets and across all wards, will benefit from our £9m residential road improvement scheme which begins on 2 October”.
Advance notice boards will go up on the roads to be resurfaced and residents will receive a letter 2-3 days before the work is carried out. Roads will be closed between 8am and 5pm for the improvements to safely take place, with cars needing to vacate the roads in advance. Any parked vehicles will be liable for a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) and will be removed. After a 1-2 week period when the roads will seem rough and gravelly whilst they are left to settle, the roads will be closed again so the contractor can return to sweep the road and paint the road markings on the new surface, leaving smooth new residential road surfaces across the borough.
The roads to be resurfaced in the first phase of the scheme (October 2020 – March 2021), listed by ward, are:
Ward Road
Abbey Newport Road
Abbey Sackville Street
Abbey Princes Street
Abbey Lynmouth Road
Abbey Baker Street (Russell St-Prospect St)
Abbey/Park Sun Street
Battle Elm Lodge Avenue
Battle Sherwood Street
Battle Alma Street
Battle Dorset Street
Battle Belmont Road
Battle Cambridge Street
Battle Cannon Street
Caversham Paddock Road
Caversham Piggotts Road
Caversham Wolsey Road
Caversham Hemdean Rise
Caversham The Slopes
Caversham Falkland Road
Caversham Hemdean Hill
Church Barnsdale Road
Church Modbury Gardens
Church Poplar Gardens
Church Hollydale Close
Church Torrington Road
Church Wentworth Avenue
Katesgrove Elgar Road South
Katesgrove Canterbury Road
Katesgrove Edgehill Street
Katesgrove Clent Road
Kentwood Cranbourne Gardens
Kentwood Hartslock Way
Mapledurham Upper Warren Avenue
Minster Brownlow Road
Minster Brunswick Street
Minster Boston Avenue
Minster Castle Crescent
Minster Westcote Road
Norcot Taff Way
Norcot / Southcote /
Tilehurst New Lane Hill
Norcot/Battle Waverley Road
Park Grange Avenue
Park Pitcroft Avenue
Park Manchester Road
Park Norris Road
Park St Edwards Road
Peppard Eric Avenue
Peppard Cavendish Road
Peppard/Thames Chiltern Road
Redlands Addington Road
Redlands Denmark Road
Southcote Southcote Lane
Southcote Circuit Lane
Thames Haldane Road
Thames Newlands Avenue
Thames Peppard Road (Service Road in front of 13 to 45)
Tilehurst Corwen Road
Tilehurst Crescent Road
Tilehurst Elmstone Drive
Whitley Vernon Crescent
Whitley Chagford Road
Whitley Honiton Road
Whitley Swallowfield Drive