A raft of new road and footway improvements to help prevent potholes will be put into action by City of Wolverhampton Council.
A budget of £9.2 million for the highways capital programme 2025/26 was bolstered by an additional £500,000 council investment to help fix and prevent surface defects at last month’s council cabinet meeting.
It will see dozens of roads and footways across the city given a new lease of life.
Roads included in the approved programme of improvements for 2025/26 – a mixture of resurfacing and surface dressing – can be seen in the below list [see notes to editors] alongside approved footway improvements, with others to be confirmed.
Councillor Qaiser Azeem, City of Wolverhampton Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport and Green City, said: “Addressing potholes is a priority for City of Wolverhampton Council as we understand how important a safe and well-maintained highways network is for all modes of transport.
“While we carry out thousands of repairs to potholes every year, and will continue to do so, prevention work is key in the long term.
“That is why we are investing in a further programme of resurfacing and other surface treatments informed by condition surveys and inspections across the network, identifying where improvements can make the most difference.
“This approach is considered best practice nationally and will help us to reduce the need for reactive repairs in the long run.”
Surface dressing can extend the life of roads, reducing the need for reactive repairs. It is completed quickly with little disruption to traffic. Where more extensive work is required, full resurfacing projects are completed.
Over the past five years the council has treated more than 560 square kilometres of carriageway by resurfacing or surface dressing and repaired more than 58,000 defects in roads and footways – up to 44 per working day.
Pothole repairs are carried out throughout the year too as the council strikes a balance between preventative and reactive work.
The highways capital programme also funds road safety and traffic management work, upgrades to car parks, streetlighting upgrades and more.
