Somerset: Vital road repairs scheduled for Taunton and Wellington
Somerset Council will be resurfacing roads in and around Taunton and Wellington in the New Year in a rolling programme scheduled to last until March 2026. The work is being carried out to improve the condition of the roads and the finished surface will look better and be safer to drive on with less risk of […]
Heidelberg Materials completes Cheddar Gorge road resurfacing project
Heidelberg Materials UK has successfully completed a complex road resurfacing project in Cheddar Gorge, the deepest natural canyon in England. The B3135 improvement scheme, part of the company’s term maintenance contract with Somerset Council, was carried out at night to minimise disruption at the popular tourist attraction. Parts of the programme required working through narrow […]
National Highways continues M5 safety investment with barrier renewal scheme
National Highways is continuing its investment in the South West M5 with a scheme to renew one and a half miles of safety barrier in Somerset. The wire rope central reservation barrier along a section of the motorway between Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater has reached its end of life and will be replaced with new steel […]
M5 flooding: £6m motorway roadworks set to begin
The Somerset section of the M5 is facing four months of roadworks in a near-£6m project to improve drainage and combat the motorway’s consistent flooding issues. For the majority of the works, three narrow lanes of the motorway will stay open in each direction near junction 26 for Wellington, says the BBC. Some overnight closures […]
Breedon acquires Tor Multimix
Essential materials provider Breedon has announced the acquisition of Somerset-based Tor Multimix as part of its ongoing investment in the region. The acquisition will strengthen its regional offering, giving construction materials firm Tor Multimix access to the support,logistics and resources of a national brand, while maintaining a strong local presence. Founded in Glastonbury in 2004, […]
National Highways completes A303 Somerset upgrade
National Highways’ A303 Sparkford to Ilchester upgrade in Somerset has opened to traffic today, seeing a 3.5-mile section of single carriageway improved to a dual carriageway. The company says this will promote economic growth, improve journey times, and increase safety by unlocking a major bottleneck in the county because the new section will significantly reduce […]
A358 Taunton to Southfields upgrade paused
The scheme to upgrade the A358 to dual carriageway between Southfields Roundabout on the A303 and the M5 at Taunton in Somerset has been paused in its current form, due to a number of what National Highways has referred to as ‘affordability challenges’. The Preferred Route Protection remains in place while the future of the […]
Somerset reveals roads to undergo improvements this summer
Nearly 150 roads across Somerset will be surface dressed this summer as Somerset Council and its new highways contractor embark on a lengthy programme of repairs. Road surface treatment specialists Kiely Bros. was awarded a four-year contract by the council effective from April 1 to carry out a range of highway services, including surface dressing. […]