Road resurfacing

We’ve received a funding allocation from the UK Government via The Department for Transport (DfT) to support the maintenance and improvement of highway infrastructure in Kingston. This has been made possible by reallocated HS2 funding from the Budget 2023 and the UK Government’s Network North Plan.

We’re supporting our existing planned maintenance programme with the first amount of funding.

Roads resurfaced this year

We’ve used the funding to resurface an extra road, the A307 Richmond Road, from the boundary with Richmond through to Fernhill Gardens in Kingston. We would not have resurfaced this road without the DfT funding.

This was planned for 2 nights of work, on the 27 and 28 March but the first night of work was stopped due to an equipment breakdown and bad weather. The second night of work was carried out as planned and we are currently re-planning the first night of work to complete the job.

Later in the year we plan to use Transport for London Principal Road Network funding to extend this work further south towards Kingston Town Centre.

Planned work for 2024 to 2025

We’re planning to continue the same approach for work in 2024 to 2025. We’ll focus on full scale resurfacing on major A roads with large amounts of traffic throughout the borough.

To decide which roads to resurface, we use a combination of:

• our Asset Management System to identify roads with a high level of defects for the length of the road (a high number of defects repaired per square metre)
• our AI Asset Management system & a Pan London Based system we use which provides condition data on borough A Roads
• Highway Inspector reports

This puts together a short list of sections of road to consider for full width resurfacing.

We use the available technology to target areas where there is a real perceived need for resurfacing due to the poor condition of the carriageway, which can be empirically proven through data and other means.

Future work

We'll also be putting together a programme and an approach for work in future years (beyond 2024 to 2025). 

Further work will be scheduled depending on future Network North Resilience Funding payments.