We think you’ll need to check our online map to see where some of our surface dressing sites are over the next two weeks – D50404 anyone?

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.

Work completed week starting Tuesday 28 May:

• Up Sydling Road – C19 to end of road, Up Sydling
• Batcombe Road – from C45, Leigh to Calfhay Lane, Crocker’s Knap X-Roads
• Brister End and part section High Street, Yetminster
• Bailey Ridge Lane – from C69, Holm Bushes to C45, Stake Ford Cross
• White House Lane – Seven Ash Common Lane to end of road near Holnest
• Seven Ash Common Road – C69, The Holm Bushes, to A352, Holnest

Work scheduled 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
• Druce Lane – C34 to cul-de-sac end (at bypass), Puddletown

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 Bloxwth Road & Church Road
• C60 – Newport Lane to C60 / D50404 Bloxworth Jct, East Bloxworth
• Jct Church Road & Newport Lane Road end
• 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

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.