Location | Works Undertaken | Area (sqm) | Indicative Scheme Cost (£) | Status | Funded From |
Castleview Gdns | Road Resurfacing | 3,378.42 | 106,432.00 | Completed | Network North DfT HS2 Funding |
Morland Rd | Road Resurfacing | 1,118.00 | 59,992.00 | Completed | Network North DfT HS2 Funding |
Yoxley App | Road Resurfacing | 587 | 17621 | Completed | Network North DfT HS2 Funding |
Hamilton Ave | Road Resurfacing | 5,670.00 | 136,201.00 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Albert Rd | Road Resurfacing | 6,659.00 | 175,744.00 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Ilford Hill (part) | Road Resurfacing | 8160 | 661674 | Completed | Redbridge Capital & Transport for London |
Whitehall Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,472.00 | 57,115.36 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Green Lane (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,165.23 | 74,000.00 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Clayhall Ave (part) | Road Resurfacing | 2,153.00 | 82,876.72 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Manford Way (part) | Road Resurfacing | 3,530.99 | 127,126.99 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Sunnyside Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 2,264.50 | 65,289.39 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
The Lowe (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,663.79 | 60,000.00 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Goodmayes Lane (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,373.98 | 79,182.05 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Cranbrook Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,075.00 | 45,124.74 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Cranbrook Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 248 | 35,861.26 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Woodford Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 230 | 16,521.63 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Woodford Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 878 | 38,455.96 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Broadmead Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,099.00 | 48,549.81 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Broadmead Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,939.00 | 84,774.13 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Broadmead Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 2,074.00 | 79,115.93 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Dover Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 243 | 21,541.54 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Redbridge Lane East (part) | Road Resurfacing | 790 | 34,100.43 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
South Park Dr (part) | Road Resurfacing | 2,635.71 | 90,933.89 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Cranbrook Rd/High St (part) | Road Resurfacing | 2,640.73 | 118,269.72 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Station Rd Ilford (part) | Road Resurfacing | 633 | 27,887.64 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Wellesley Rd (part) | Road Resurfacing | 875 | 40,246.01 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
High Street Wanstead (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,367.00 | 70,320.69 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Grove Hill (part) | Road Resurfacing | 1,249.00 | 58,681.38 | Completed | Redbridge Capital |
Highways Maintenance and Resurfacing Information
The initial long list of roads to be considered for treatment is obtained from the structural condition survey reports from the Highway Asset Management System as well as feedback and defect levels recorded from the Council’s Highways Safety Inspections. The structural condition survey reports provide the structural road condition indices, or initial average score and a borough-wide condition survey was completed in quarter two of the 2023-24 financial year. The Council takes the condition of roads and analyses them through a value engineering matrix to ascertain the priority of roads.
The 2023-24 year included an extensive programme of resurfacing and minor capital intervention works to extend the life of the carriageway. Redbridge Council has put forward further capital investment to its roads and has also received funding from the Department for Transport funding from HS2.
The levels of funding for the last five financial years and the 2024/25 financial year are as follows for reactive maintenance to fix potholes, raised paving slabs, damaged signs, bollards and responding to road traffic accidents, as well as the capital investment to resurfacing roads:
Financial Year | Reactive Maintenance (£) | Road Resurfacing Capital (£) |
2019/20 | £1.45m | £2.5m |
2020/21 | £1.47m | £6.75m |
2021/22 | £1.65m | £2.5m |
2022/23 | £1.52m | £1.5m |
2023/24 | £1.6m | £2.5m |
2024/25 | £1.5m | £3m |
Reallocated HS2 funding
In both 2023/24 and in 2024/25, The London Borough of Redbridge has been allocated £262,000 to invest in road maintenance. This follows the reallocation of HS2 funding throughout the country by the Department for Transport (DfT).
Major and Minor Carriageway Resurfacing Programme 2023-24
Indicative Major Capital Resurfacing Programme 2024/25
Location | Works Undertaken | Area (sqm) | Indicative Scheme Cost (£) | Status | Funded From |
LEY STREET (part) | Road Resurfacing | 2,064.90 | 154,867.30 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Redbridge Capital |
MALLARDS ROAD | Road Resurfacing | 1,390.97 | 104,322.60 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Redbridge Capital |
HIGH STREET (Barkingside) | Road Resurfacing | 7,196.05 | 539,703.60 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Redbridge Capital |
CRANBROOK ROAD (part) | Road Resurfacing | 9,920.10 | 744,007.85 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Redbridge Capital |
RODING LANE NORTH (part) | Road Resurfacing | 4,961.23 | 372,092.17 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Redbridge Capital |
RODING LANE NORTH (part) | Road Resurfacing | 4,452.37 | 333,927.99 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Redbridge Capital |
FOREST ROAD | Road Resurfacing | 1,081.73 | 81,129.60 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Network North DfT HS2 Funding |
BURTON ROAD | Road Resurfacing | 386.78 | 29,008.80 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Network North DfT HS2 Funding |
GRANVILLE ROAD | Road Resurfacing | 1,368.94 | 102,670.20 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Network North DfT HS2 Funding & Redbridge Capital |
LODGE HILL | Road Resurfacing | 875.16 | 65,637.00 | 2024/25 To Be Confirmed | Network North DfT HS2 Funding |
Innovation
Redbridge Council piloted a Jet Injection Patcher over the summer period of 12 weeks that resulted in the additional repair of 2,202 potholes which proved to be cost effective and reduced carbon output due to having to excavate and dispose of any material. The Council will be using the jet patcher again in the 2024-25 financial year using additional revenue funding provided by the Council.
Redbridge is also using warm mix asphalt as per its standard resurfacing material which reduces the Council's carbon emissions as part of its road maintenance programme to comply with its wider goals on carbon reduction and net zero.
Redbridge are also working with various organisations that are looking to use AI on the road network to detect potholes and report them through to the maintenance teams to ensure potholes can be picked up and repaired at a faster rate. Redbridge have also commissioned Vaisala Road AI system to conduct annual condition surveys of the roads which feeds into the priority matrix of road resurfacing. This ensures that the Council is spending and investing in its road network appropriately and at the right time.
Protecting Resurfaced Roads
The London Borough of Redbridge will issue Section 58 notices under the New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) 1991. The notice prevents any statutory undertakers from digging up the carriageway for a minimum of two years to protect the resurfacing the Council has completed. However, statutory undertakers such as utilities can still excavate in the need of an emergency, but they must satisfy the conditions of the Council when doing so.
Redbridge also has regular meetings with all utility companies and its own teams to ensure that roadworks are coordinated in an effective manner under the Traffic Management Act, New Roads and Street Works Act as well as the London Permit Scheme. Where possible, Redbridge urges collaboration between works to reduce disruption on the road network.
Annual Pothole Information
The London Borough of Redbridge will publish annual data of pothole repairs. The borough will publish the data annually as part of its annual inspection and highway maintenance review process. The below does not include any resurfacing that the borough undertakes.
The 2023-24 data is under final review whilst the services confirms the final figures from March 2024.
Financial Year |
£ Spent on Pothole Repairs |
No. Potholes Repaired |
Comments |
23-24 |
737,594 |
15,933 (+2,207) |
The London Borough of Redbridge introduced the Injection Patcher as a trial over and above its inspection and general pothole repair programme which repaired an additional 2,207 potholes between July and October 2023, taking the total to 18,140 potholes repaired. |
22-23 |
579,491 |
12,897 |
|
21-22 |
413,885 |
8,187 |
|
20-21 |
403,797 |
7,597 |
|
19-20 |
319,365 |
5,948 |
|
18-19 |
392,872 |
7,572 |
|
17-18 |
445,238 |
8,318 |
|
Redbridge manages and maintains the highway assets falling within our 532 km of highway network. With responsibility to ensure the highway assets are fit for purpose and able to fulfil their function in an efficient and sustainable manner.
As the Highway Authority, Redbridge owns, and is responsible for, the repair and maintenance of all assets that form part of the public highway. The safety of the highway network is the Council’s responsibility, which means that Redbridge has a duty to inspect and repair roads, footways and highway structures, and ensure that streets are safe and clean, and lighting and drainage systems work effectively.