Our surface dressing gang is back in action in Wareham following the early May Bank Holiday weekend.
Please help us by moving your car off the road before 9am and by keeping speeds down immediately after the work, which will allow the material to ‘bed down’.
Remember, you can check for all works in your area using our online roadworks map.
Works completed last week (starting 29 April):
- Johns Road, Wareham
- Carey Close, Wareham
- Walls Veiw Road, Wareham
- West Mill Crescent, Wareham
- Link from Wessex Oval, Wareham
- St Marys Close, Wareham
- Wessex Oval, Wareham
- Humber Chase, Wareham
- Egdon Road, Wareham
- Mistover Road, Wareham
- Carey Road, Wareham
- Courtney Close, Wareham
- Admirals Way, Wareham
- Drax Avenue, Wareham
- Northport Drive, Wareham
- Trent Drive, Wareham
- Bourne Drive, Wareham
Some sections of West Mill Crescent, Wessex Oval and the Wessex Oval link Road will be left untreated. Due to scheduled SSE cabling work. We will surface dress these ‘bare’ sections during next year’s surface dressing programme.
Work scheduled for week starting 7 May:
- Nordon Drive, Wareham
- Middlebere Drive, Wareham
- Fairway Drive, Wareham
- Seven Barrows Road, Wareham
- Wellstead Road, Wareham
- Stockley Road, Wareham
- Burns Road, Wareham
- Tarrant Drive, Wareham
- Great Ovens Drive, Wareham
- Stour Drive, Wareham
- Sherford Drive, Wareham
- Avon Drive, Wareham
- Tantinoby Lane, Wareham
- Daniel Drive, Wareham
- Willow Way, Wareham
- Northmoor Way, Wareham
- Dual carriageway (northbound) – Bere Road to Northmoor Way, Wareham
- Link from Northmoor Way to A351 (opposite golf club entrance)
Work scheduled week starting Monday 13 May:
- Timber Hill, Lyme Regis
- C18 – from B3164, Birdsmoorgate to entrance to Lower House Farm, Bettiscombe
- C18 – entrance to Lower House Farm to Mutton Street at Marshwood Cross
- Beaminster Tunnel to A356 Road – Jct C67, Beaminster Down, to Jct A356, Toller Down
- C37 – Curry Hole Lane, Halstock to entrance at Furlongs, Corscombe
- Back Lane, Evershot
About the work
Our surface dressing gang is working 9am to 4pm in urban areas and 8am to 4pm in rural areas.
Here are a few things you can to do help us, and yourself:
- please move your car off the road before 9am
- please keep children and pets away – for safety and cleanliness
- please keep to the temporary speed limits and avoid heavy braking to allow the surface to stabilise and ‘bed down’
- check your shoes before entering your car or home
- remove stains promptly with a cleaner for removing bitumen/oil which can be purchased from any motoring store
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.
