£5m road improvements programme under way

ROADS in Keynsham will benefit from a £5 million programme of improvements scheduled by Bath & North East Somerset Council this year.

The council will also spend £950,000 resurfacing footways, alongside maintaining and upgrading street lights, drains, public rights of way and bridges.

Resurfacing work will run from now until the end of summer, before cold and wet weather makes resurfacing more difficult.

Among local routes to benefit are Rock Road (scheduled for May), the A4175 Bristol Road (July), Woollard Lane (July) and Charlton Road (August).

Councillor Lucy Hodge, cabinet member for sustainable transport delivery, said: “Keeping our roads in good condition is one of the things residents rightly expect from us, and we are committed to delivering it through planned programmes like this as well as smaller reactive work our teams are out doing each day, like fixing potholes and carrying out inspections.

“Our highways teams have been working flat out fixing potholes, with 3,790 repaired in since January, a five-year high.”

The council has been using different ways to reduce its carbon emissions as it carries out resurfacing. Last year two schemes were delivered using in-situ recycling, which uses the existing road material to form the new surface, and a carbon-neutral trial method was used in Whitchurch.

This year the council will spend £600,000 to deliver four micro-asphalt surfacing schemes which produce fewer carbon emissions than conventional resurfacing.

Surveys and inspections conducted by the council’s highways team help identify and prioritise highways that need to be resurfaced and this gives rise to the programme of work each year. Residents can also report issues through FixMyStreet.

The council will be implementing Section 58 restrictions to each of the newly resurfaced roads which protects a road from certain utility works for up to three years and gives the council greater control over reinstatements if needed.

The full programme is on the council’s website: https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/find-planned-street-works. Dates may be subject to change.

Pictured, Lays Drive in Keynsham was among the first to benefit from the council’s 2026 resurfacing programme in March