Dorset Highways maintenance gangs are out across the county continuing to repair road damage.
To allow this work to take place safely, the area of the road being worked on will be closed. Daytime road closures are 9am to 4pm and night work is usually from 7pm to 6am.
We will do our best to keep you updated if our schedule of work changes. In June we will be repairing sections along the following roads:
A3030 Higher Woodbridge to Old Rectory – 27 May to 2 June
road closed 9.30am to3.30pm
A3030 Caundle Street (Stony Lane to Sarum House) – 3 June to 7 June
road closed 9.30am to 3.30pm
During the A3030 closure periods there will be no on-street parking available.
Scotchey Hill, East Stour – 8 June & 9 June
road closed 9.30am to 3.30pm
B3092 Back Street, East Stour – 10 June to 16 June
road closed weekdays 9.30am to 3.30pm
Great Western Road, Dorchester – 14 June to 24 June
urgent tree works
road closed weekdays 9.30am – 3.30pm
the road will be open on Wednesdays
Victoria Road, Wimborne – 25 June
road closed 8pm to 6am
A30 London Road, Crackmore, Oborne – 25 June & 26 June
road closed 8pm to 6am
A3066 Tunnel Road, Beaminster – 27 June
road closed 7pm to 6am for urgent repair work
Briantspuddle Bridge, Moor Lane – 28 June to 6 August
Bridge closed 24/7 for maintenance
A350 Littledown, Shaftesbury – 29 June to 10 July
road closed weekdays 8pm to 6am
Retexturing is also taking place at the following locations to improve skid resistance:
C2 Horton Road, Ashley Heath – 2 June to 4 June
road closed 8pm to 6am
B3070, West Lulworth – 8 June to 10 June
road closed 9pm to 6am
This is not an exhaustive list of all roads being repaired. Dorset Highways’ annual road maintenance programme, includes patching, micro-surfacing, surface dressing, in-situ recycling, road preservation and resurfacing treatments.
Using a variety of surface treatments ensures that more of Dorset Council’s roads get repaired with the budget available, compared to using resurfacing alone.
Surface dressing is also underway across the county.
All planned road works can be found online.
Please use our online form to report road-related issues/damage. This goes directly to the local community highways officer for assessment.
Additional safety measures
Additional safety measures are being taken to ensure the health and safety of workers in these unprecedented times. We are also working closely with other highway authorities across the south west and with industry bodies to share knowledge of new ways of working.
- single person vehicle movements both to and from site
- maintaining current social distancing requirements at all times
- daily toolbox talks to share the latest safe working guidance and COVID-19 updates
- daily health screening involving temperature checks and general well-being
- no high-risk workers on site
- revised working practices to reduce the number of staff on site while still maintaining health and safety standards when working on the highway
- changes to site welfare, including additional toilet facilities and hygiene provision
Please be mindful of how you speak to our workforce, they are working within the Government’s guidance for construction activity – that it should continue where it fits with both the current Public Health England requirements and in accordance with industry safety guidance.
Pity the pothole couldn’t be repaired so they last, I know of a lot of potholes that have been fix several times. Why are the repairs seal around the edges with liquid tar that would stop water getting and freezing during the winter?
Sorry should have been not sealed around the edges.
B3092 Back Street, East Stour – 10 June to 16 June
road closed 9.30am to 3.30pm
Assume access will be allowed for residents and tradesmen?
Hi Simon, the road will be closed in sections, so some access will always be available.
We do our best to maintain access to properties and businesses, but this will often involve a short wait while machinery moves or a task is finished. If you’ve got a particular concern regarding access, best thing is to speak to one of the workers on site who will try to help.
When O When will you ever get to doing anything to the roads in Ferndown
especially Victoria Gardens. The volume of traffic ,S U Vs driven by mothers
taking a short cut on the school run, is increasing and the road surface is
deteriorating rapidly.We ,after all, are also Council Tax payers.
I have read that 100 roads are being resurfaced in Dorset hardly any were mentioned in West moors
Compton Crescent is in desperate need of resurfacing when will this happen please