Scheduled Roadworks in our area - March - May 2026

Below are details of all planned roadworks that affect our immediate area, some may be just outside the ward but could impact your daily travel. These are shown in date order.

Highland Road - 17.12.2025 - 10.03.2026 - Scaffolding outside 37 Highland Road, no carriageway incursion

The Hollow - 02.02.2026 - 13.03.2026 - National Grid - utility asset works, 4 ways traffic lights in place

Innox Road - 02.02.2026 - 13.03.2026 - National Grid - utility asset works, 4 ways traffic lights in place

Cleeve Green - 27.02.2026 - 26.03.2026 - Skip on road at rear of 63 Newton Road

Haycombe Drive - 02.03.2026 - 04.03.2026 - Openreach - lay ducting and clear blockage near 225, Footpath closure

Newton Road - 02.03.2026 - 04.03.2026 - Openreach - clear blockage, opposite 76, Footpath closure

Cameley Green - 02.03.2026 - 04.03.2026 - Openreach - clear blockage, opposite number 46, Footpath closure

Cleeve Green - 02.03.2026 - 04.03.2026 - Openreach - lay ducting and clear blockage near number 75, footpath closure

Lower Bristol Road - 02.03.2026 - 06.03.2026 - BANES - Tree felling on roadside, traffic lights in place, midway between Twerton Fork and Connection Hill

Kelston View - 06.03.2026 - Three - utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, approx 25mtrs from junction with The Hollow

Kelston View - 13.03.2026 - 14.03.2026 - Openreach - Clear blockage in footpath cabling outside 100 - 102, traffic lights in place

The Hollow - 16.03.2026 - 17.03.2026 - Truespeed - utility asset works, Footpath closed, some carriageway incursion

Highland Road - 16.03.2026 - BANES - Full road closure, carriageway resurfacing

The Hollow - 16.03.2026 - 18.03.2026 - BANES - Feeder Pillar replacement, near junction with Kelston View, Footpath closed, some carriageway incursion

Shophouse Road - 16.03.2026 - 20.03.2026 - BANES - Installation of Zebra Crossing, full road closure

Shophouse Road - 23.03.2026 - 02.04.2026 - BANES - Installation of traffic calming scheme, traffic lights in place

The Hollow - 14.04.2026 - 21.04.2026 - National Grid - utility repair and maintenance work, multi way traffic lights

High Street - 20.04.2026 - 23.04.2026 - National Rail - Railway works, full road closure, this is by the railway arch leading into the High Street near McDonalds only, so a diversion will be in place at this location

Where roads are closed, we will provide full details of impacts on bus services (if applicable) closer to the date of the works. 

Some work is added to this list at short notice and we will endeavour to let residents know as soon as we have been made aware.

Highways update - Twerton

Yesterday Councillors Tim Ball and Sarah Moore had a meeting with a BANES Highways Engineer to start the process of looking at roads across the ward in which residents have raised concerns over speeding traffic and pedestrian safety.

Our initial meeting looked at Shophouse Road and Twerton High Street and the Engineer will now put together his report of recommendations for those roads which we will then discuss with the residents on those roads (and surrounding streets that would be affected) to get their views before submitting a request for funds to make any agreed changes.

We have also requested a number of roads to be included on the next resurfacing schedule including Highland Road, Windrush Close and Dominion Road.

Our next review will be Poolemead Road, Sheridan Road, Garrick Road and Shaws Way where we will look at speeding and parking issues with a Highways Engineer who will be able to advise what options are available to be discussed with residents in the affected area.

Due to the processes that need to be followed and the need to secure the relevant funding, it does take some time to get these meetings and associated works carried out, however, Tim and Sarah are committed to making Twerton and Whiteway as safe and accessible for everyone as they can.

Highway Safety

Councillors Sarah Moore and Tim Ball are meeting with Highway engineers next week to look at potential traffic calming options for Shophouse Road, Twerton High Street and Long Valley Road.

This is the start of reviewing all road across Twerton and Whiteway where we have been contacted with concerns, to ensure they are safer streets for residents. Other roads will also be reviewed with a view to implementing safety schemes to stop speeding vehicles and other issues.

No schemes will be put in place without the residents affected being able to respond and have their say about the proposals.

We are not looking at implementing any LTNs in this area but we are keen to stop traffic speeding and causing issues for pedestrians trying to cross our roads.

We are also reviewing the condition of all footpaths in the area as well as the roads that have not yet been resurfaced to ensure these are addressed.

Shophouse Road highway repairs

 

 

Shophouse Road, Twerton

01 March — 31 March

 

Delays likely - Road closure

 

Works location: Shophouse Road, from its junction with Innox Road to its junction with Lansdown View

 

Works description: 2021 Carriageway Patching Repair Scheme

 

Responsibility for works: Bath and North East Somerset Council

 

Current status: Planned work about to start

 

Works reference: QD0104406088

 

Lower Bristol Road Parking

In March this year we met with Highways officers to discuss options for restricting parking and making crossing the Lower Bristol Road safer. 

We discussed the option of putting in additional parking bays and restricting the parking on the rest of this stretch of road with double yellow lines as per the plan below.

We have responded to these options stating that we do not think parking opposite the turning into the bus depot is suitable and also asked for costings for a light controlled crossing to be installed.

The risk of not putting in any additional parking on this stretch of road would mean there is even more opportunity of speeding on a wide open road.

We have chased up progress on this as we feel it is now become an urgent issue and does meet the criteria for improving walking routes.

We will provide a further update as soon as we have received an up to date response from the Highways team.

Twerton High Street

Wessex Water will be carrying out work in Twerton High Street between the 7th and the 9th January. Traffic lights will be in place to regulate the flow of Traffic.

It would be advisable to give extra time when planning your journey as delays can be expected.

Tanners Walk/Boyce Close walkabout

We had a great afternoon talking with residents in Tanners Walk and Boyce Close yesterday, with several issues raised.

We will look into these and get back to the residents shortly on what can be done.

We also found the road leading up to Long Valley Road has become very bad really quickly and have contacted the Highways team to request urgent action is taken to get it repaired.

If any residents that we missed would like to contact us on any issues then please do so, we are here to help if we can.

Traffic delays likely

A warning for motorists traveling towards town from Twerton for the next three days there are likely to be delays due to road works being carried out by Wessex Water authority.

The road works entail two way traffic lights so please give a bit of extra time to your journey.

For more details on the precise location please follow this link http://roadworks.org/?40820342

New Road Markings

New road markings and remaking of road junctions has been taking place in Twerton over the last few weeks after we chased up the issues of worn out markings.

We have noticed a few mistakes that have been made and we are talking with council officers about having corrections made

Connection Hill Closed

Connection Hill that Connects Twerton High Street to the Lower Bristol Road is closed today 20th May and tomorrow 21st May for tree maintenance works.

All other roads are unaffected.

By Cllr Tim Ball

Poolemead Road Grass verges

We have asked the council to ensure that they take some action to repair the damage that is being caused by cars parking on the grass verge at Poolmead Road.

We do not want to stop parking on these verges as this is a Major Bus Route and have previously asked that the verges have grasscrete installed in them.

What we have asked the council to do in the short term is to put some gravel down to protect the surface from being totally worn away.

Safety first builder advised

We have asked that the builders working on the redevelopment ensure that they protect the area that they are working in thus making the public area that is still open safe for the public in the area.

Llovel have agreed to ensure that some of the loose kerbs stones are secured into place and have also agreed to putting up some safety signs when working on the Highway.

Much of the damage to the kerbs on Newton Road is not down to the builders but other people in the area parking where they should not park.