A SERIES of repairs is due to take place on roads across Leicester during the school summer holidays.
The city council is carrying out the programme of resurfacing work during the school break when there is less traffic on the city’s roads.
It will involve some temporary road closures and well signposted local diversions while the repairs are carried out.
Work takes place on Stoughton Drive, between Evington Lane and the Gartree roundabout, from Saturday 12 July, for eight days. The route will be closed in both directions during the work, which is costing around £240,000 and will see 6,750 square metres of road resurfaced.
On Avenue Road Extension, in Clarendon Park, there will be work between its junctions with Welford Road and Queens Road, from Saturday 19 July, for up to seven days.
Work will then begin on part of London Road, between its junctions with Mayfield Road and Evington Road, from Saturday 26 July for six days.
The Portwey and Tailby Avenue, between Hastings Road and Uppingham, Road will be resurfaced from Saturday 2 August, with work expected to take place over six days.
Roadworks are also planned for parts of Wicklow Drive, King Richards Road, Vulcan Road and Arran Road during August, with all schemes expected to be complete before the schools return on Tuesday 26 August.
In total, the planned summer roadworks programme will cost just over £1 million and will see over 26,000 square metres of road resurfaced.
Martin Fletcher, Leicester City Council director of city highways, said: “With the volume of traffic using the city’s roads, repairs and resurfacing work are necessary to keep the road network in good condition.
“Unfortunately, these works mean temporary road closures and disruption to some drivers, but that is unavoidable.
“We do try to carry out resurfacing and more disruptive roadworks during the school holidays when traffic is considerably reduced and will do all that we can to ensure that work is completed quickly and that roads can reopen on time.”
The planned summer roadworks are part of the city council’s annual highway capital maintenance programme that will see over £6 million invested in maintaining and improving the city’s highway infrastructure this year.