ROADS around in north Shropshire will be part of a huge programme of road resurfacing works in north Shropshire this summer.

Shropshire Council has announced that more than 50 stretches of road in the county are set to be treated this summer as part of its surface dressing programme – work that will play a key role in improving roads.

The work will be carried out from June 2024.

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The sites identified for treatment are located across the county and include all types of roads, from urban cul-de-sacs to major ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads.

Dates and details of work will be available on the One Network interactive roadworks website once confirmed. The site can be searched using the relevant map reference in the list below.

Surface dressing is a quick, efficient and cost-effective way of preventing potholes, maintaining skid-resistance and waterproofing road surfaces.

It forms a major part of the council’s annual road maintenance programme and is being carried out alongside other preventative and reactive maintenance work.

Dan Morris, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member for highways, said:“ As well as improving and protecting our roads, this important programme of work plays a crucial role in helping to prevent potholes and other defects forming in the future.

“Pothole treatment is very much about prevention as well as cure and this is one important way that we can aim to prevent potholes forming next winter.”

Surface dressing involves applying and rolling aggregate ‘chippings’ onto a bitumen binder.

It will seal the surface, improve surface texture and prolong the life of the road by many years.

Roads local to Oswestry and Ellesmere will be the A495 – Whittington to Welsh Frankton; in Ellesmere, Coptiviney Junction to the Swan Hill end and in Baschurch, the B5067 Prescott to Walford Heath.

The B5476 – Wem to Tilstock; B5395 Prees Road, Whitchurch;  A41 Chester Road Roundabout to Hinton Bank Roundabout, and the A41 – Bletchley Dual Carriageway, Northbound will also be worked upon.

A Shropshire Council spokesman added: “Because of the limited width of the majority of identified roads, more than 90 per cent of the sites will unfortunately require a temporary road closure for the works to be carried out safely.

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“Where road closures are not necessary, other forms of temporary traffic management will be in place, including temporary signals where appropriate. When treating cul-de-sacs limited access will be available.

“For the majority of ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads centre line studs/cats’ eyes also need to be removed and replaced under a temporary closure.

“It’s envisaged that stud/cats’ eye removal will take place overnight between 8pm and 6am, followed by dressing, sweeping and reapplying road markings during daytime hours.”