More than 40 roads to be surface dressed this summer

Surface dressing in north Shropshire

More than 40 stretches of road across Shropshire are set to be treated this summer as part of Shropshire Council’s 2025 surface dressing programme – work that will play a key role in improving the county’s roads.

The work will be carried out from May 2025.

The 41 sites identified for treatment (listed below and also on the Shropshire Council website) are located across the county and include all types of road, from urban roads to major ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads.

Dates and details of work will be available on the One Network interactive roadworks website once road space permits have been granted. The site can be searched using the relevant USRN map reference on the council website.

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.

Further information

Surface dressing work

To ensure works are delivered in safe and practicable manner the sites will unfortunately require a temporary road closure for the works to be carried out safely.

Where road closures are not necessary, other forms of temporary traffic management will be in place, including temporary signals where appropriate.

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.

The replacement of studs and road markings on some sites may necessarily need to take place up to ten days later.

In reality, most of the road closures will only be required for a few hours for the dressing operation, and are unlikely to be of more than one day in duration.

The programme of work may alter due to wet weather or other unforeseen events.

In order to keep affected residents and road users informed of when and how long closures will be in place advance information signs will be positioned on each site in the weeks preceding proposed commencement of works.

Roads due to be surface dressed in 2025

• A490- Chirbury to County Boundary
• A495 – B4396 to County Boundary, Porth-Y-Waen
• A495 – Whitehaven to B4396, Porth-Y-Waen
• B4398 – County Boundary to Llwyntidman Junction , Maesbrook
• B4398 – Llwyntidman Junction to Maesbrook
• B4396 – Whipland Cross Roads to Rolly Junction, Knockin
• B4396 – Llynclys Cross Roads to  Lloyds, Llynclys
• B5009 – Twmpath Lane to Whittington
• C1131 – Queens Head to West Felton
• A528  – Cockshutt to Colemere Junction
• B5065 – Soulton Road and Wem Lane, Wem
• B5065 – A49 to C2073, Prees Green
• C2019 – Weston Derestriction to C2073, Hodnet
• A529 – Lockley Wood to Phoenix Bank, Market Drayton
• A5 – Crackley Back to Pickmere Island, Sheriffhales
• A464 – Cross Road to County Boundary, Albrighton
• C4178 – Kinsgwood Road, Albrighton
• A464 – Park Street End Roundabout
• A464 – Priorslee Road, Shifnal
• B4375 – Barretts Hill, Broseley
• B4375 – Church Street, Broseley
• B4373 – Cross Lane Head to Stone Croft, Astley Abbotts
• A458 – Ludlow Island to Footbridge Cottage, Bridgnorth
• A442 – Chapel Lane to Old Worcester Road, Quatford
• A442 – Old Worcester Road to Danesford, Bridgnorth
• A442 – Danesford to A458, Bridgnorth
• A458 – Green Lane Island to County Boundary, Six Ashes
• A458 – Chartwell Business Park to Green Lane Island, Bridgnorth
• C4267 – Aston Lane, Claverley
• C4237 – The Square to Riddings Lane, Stottesdon
• C6003 – Henley Road, Ludlow
• B4365 – Stanton Lacy Junction to Culmington
• C5150 – Whitcot Junction to Newton, Norbury
• C5150 – Wentnor to Whitcot Junction
• C5150 – Bridges to Wentnor
• C5150 – Pulverbatch to Bridges
• A488 – Hall Bank, Pontesbury
• U5511  – Pontesford Hill To Grove Lane, Pontesford
• A488 – Main Road from Little Halston Farm to Pontesbury
• A488 – Edgebold Island to Mill Lane, Hanwood
• B5061 – Norton to County Boundary, Atcham