The weather has not been kind to us, so our work is a little behind schedule.

We’re around four days behind where we had planned to be due to rain.

Work completed week starting Monday 3 June:

• Compton Road – parish boundary to C141, Over Compton
• D30104 – Boys Hill at Blackmore Bridge to C73, Glanvilles Wooton
• Stock Hill Lane – south of Sandhills to B3146, Glanvilles Wootton
• Newlands Lane, Glanvilles Wootton
• Court Farm Road – Hilling Lane to end of road, Buckland Newton
• Castle Lane – B3143, Buckland Newton, to C20, Brockhampton Green

Work scheduled for week starting Monday 10 June:

• Little England to A35-Lane
• Bloxworth X-Jct with A35
• Jct Newport Lane & C60 Church Road
• Jct Bloxworth Road & Church Road
• C60 – Newport Lane to C60 / D50404 Bloxworth Jct, East Bloxworth
• Jct Church Road & Newport Lane Road end

Work scheduled for week starting Monday 17 June:

• C60 – from C60 / D50404 Bloxworth Jct, East Bloxworth, to Jct A35, near Morden Mill
• The Lane – from outside Brook Farm to A31 opposite Botany Bay Inn, Winterborne Zelston
• Jct Cockett Hill / D1701 to B3075
• West End – A350 to North Farm, Spetisbury
• Arlecks Lane – Church Road to Down Road, Pimperne
• Down Road – Anvil Road to Arlecks Lane, Pimperne
• Newfield Road – from C47 to adoption end, Pimperne
• Bushes Road – from A350, Stourpaine to C13

As we head into more rural areas, and work on lesser-known roads, please remember you can check where we are working by using the online roadworks map.

About the work

Our surface dressing gang is working 9am to 4pm in urban areas and 8am to 4pm in rural areas.

Surface dressing doesn’t take long and the road can be driven on as soon as it’s finished. Depending on the length of the road you live on, the road will be closed for around 1-2 hours while the treatment takes place.

There will be an advisory 20mph speed limit after the work while the loose stones ‘bed down’ into the bitumen. Travelling at this reduced speed will prevent skidding on the loose chippings, help ‘bed down’ the material and will save your paint work!

We sweep the road one to two days after the work to get rid of excess stones.

White lining reinstatement will follow on from this and is generally a week or so later.

Sorry for the inconvenience

We cannot work overnight as surface dressing relies on the evaporation of water from the bitumen binder (glue) for it to set, and it needs traffic to travel on the new surface for it to ‘bed down’ and lock onto the old surface.

We also cannot work in wet weather – any amount of rain or surface water dilutes the bitumen and so doesn’t hold the chippings in place – which is why our surface dressing programme runs from April through to September.

As this treatment is so weather dependent, dates are subject to change.