Two weeks of roadworks planned across Leicester

Road repairs costing £100k are set to take place across the city over the next fortnight.

The works include resurfacing, patch repairs and other improvement and maintenance works, taking place at five sites over the next two weeks, say Leicester City Council.

Work gets underway today with approximately £20k being spent on patching work at Vernon Street, Newfoundpool.

A further £16k will be spent on patch repairs at Astill Lodge Road, Beaumont Leys, on Sunday.

Balisfire Grove in Beaumont Leys will have £26k worth of repair works carried out there on Tuesday, while the Coleman Road slip road/Barnes Heath Road area will undergo £25k worth of repairs on Wednesday.

And £13k will be spent on surface repairs at Vicarage Lane in Humberstone the following week, on Thursday, August 29.

All the works will last for one day and road closures are expected, apart from Barnes Heath Road which will remain open under ‘stop-go’ traffic management.

Leicester assistant city mayor for neighbourhood services, Cllr Kirk Master, said the works will "ensure the city’s road network is kept in good condition to cope with modern traffic demands".

He said: “This phase of works will be concentrating on surface repairs, such as patching damaged road surfaces, repairing or replacing damaged road humps in neighbourhoods across the city.

“In some cases, there will be one-day closures for the work to be carried out, and where this is the case, local diversions will be signposted.

“The work is essential to ensuring the durability of the city’s road surfaces, and will benefit everyone who uses these roads.”

As part of the larger £2.5m programme of repair works in the city, September 1 will also see a later phase of road works where further further patching work and repairs or replacement of humps at Aylestone Drive, Humberstone Lane, Marwood Drive and Jarrom Street.