You can now view a comprehensive list of highway maintenance work planned for our roads this financial year.
We’ve published the information on our website, in line with Department for Transport (DfT) guidelines for local highway authorities to show local taxpayers how highways funding is being used in their area.
Our webpages include information on more than 1,420 schemes in the capital highway maintenance programme – covering everything from resurfacing, patching, surface dressing, drainage improvements, and road marking.
Preventative treatments will cover around 260 miles (420km) of the highway network and covers work such as surface dressing and footway “slurry seal” (a top surface material for pavements).
Councillor Dan Thomas, Cabinet Member for Highways, said:
“This document provides people with information on all of the planned maintenance on Devon’s highway network, and hopefully it also gives people a better understanding of the planning that goes into maintaining our roads. It’s an unenviable task as unfortunately, due to decades of underfunding from central government, we simply don’t receive enough money and therefore repairs have to be prioritised.
“Our highways teams do much more than just fill potholes – they’re carrying out preventative maintenance before potholes can form in the first place. We will continue our efforts to find innovative solutions, through new materials, more efficient machinery, and trialling different ways of working to get the best value from every pound spent.”
Devon’s 8,000-mile road network is the biggest of any authority in the country and is the equivalent length of covering a third of the circumference of the world.
The County Council’s highway maintenance strategy recognises that it’s not possible to maintain every road to the same standard, due to limited budgets and resources.
The Council will continue to prioritise available funding for A and B roads, which are the busiest parts of the network and carry around 80% of traffic in the county. The remaining budget is spread across Devon’s lengthy road network of C roads and unclassified roads.
Investment is also being made in preventative maintenance, such as surface dressing, to manage and extend the lifespan of roads. However, nearly 59,000 potholes were fixed last year and it’s expected that a similar number will be repaired this financial year.
A full list of the planned highway maintenance programme can be found on our website.
Among more than 1,420 schemes are:
Resurfacing
A386 New Road, Bideford
B3227 Hatchmoor Road, Great Torrington
A379 Exeter Road, Starcross
A385 Blackpost Lane, Berry Pomeroy
A396 The Walronds, Tiverton
A399 Watermouth Road, Ilfracombe
Station Road, Budleigh Salterton
Gladstone Road, Exeter
Willand Road, Willand
Station Road, Cullompton
A39 Alexandra Road, Barnstaple
Patching
Chapel Road, Bratton Clovelly
A386 Merton
Cole’s Lane, Kingskerswell
Kiln Lane, Stokenham
Webbery Moor Cross to Port Cross, Newtown
White Cross Road, Woodbury
A375 Temple Street, Sidmouth
Surface dressing
A39 Bucks Cross, Woolfardisworthy
B3248 Ford Hill, Hartland
A379 Sannerville Way, Exminster
Station Road, Ivybridge
B3190 Timewell Hill, Morebath
Topsham Road, Exeter
Fore Street, Kentisbeare
Mayflower Avenue, Newton Abbot
Drainage improvements
A3072 Green Hill, Sampford Courtenay
A386 Bedford Square roundabout, Tavistock
A382 Monks Way, Bovey Tracey
A379 Dartmouth Road, Stoke Fleming
A3072 Beers Hill, Copplestone
B3178 Salterton Road, Exmouth
Pinhoe Road, Exeter
Commercial Road, Uffculme
A3052 Boshill, Axmouth
Exeter Street, Teignmouth