Marlborough Town Council
Temporary Road Closures & Highways News
Please note that we only receive advance notice about road closures, not roadworks such as temporary traffic lights.
Please go to https://one.network/ where you will be able to see current and planned works to Wiltshire highways: road closures, roadworks e.g. temporary traffic lights and public events. If you sign up (for free) you will be able to set up email alerts so you'll always be notified of scheduled works to roads in whichever part of Wiltshire you choose to define.
Upcoming road closure notices
30 September to 5 October - A346 (part), Burbage and Savernake - overnight closures between 21:00-0600
12:00 on 4 October to 08:00 on 6 October - High Street and New Road (part) and Kingsbury Street (part) - Mop Fair
12:00 on 11 October to 08:00 on 13 October - High Street and New Road (part) and Kingsbury Street (part) - Mop Fair
29 October - 19:00-Midnight - A346/Herd Street (part)
5 to 8 November - Pewsey Road (A345) - 19:00-23:59
For details of all potential highways disruptions planned for the area please go to https://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/highways-road-closures
for a county-wide map of current and planned roadworks go to https://one.network/, or contact Wiltshire Council on 0300 456 0100
HIGHWAYS REQUESTS
Wiltshire Council has changed the way requests for Highways improvements and traffic surveys are processed.
These will now be dealt with at a more local level by Marlborough Town Council. Read more
Wiltshire Council
Wiltshire Council's website has a comprehensive Highways section.
You can read about the Local Highway and Footway Improvement Groups, use it to find out about which roads are gritted in severe weather, apply for a road closure for a special event such as a street party, report an issue, make an insurance claim and much more.
How Wiltshire Council schedules roadworks in Wiltshire
We’re often asked about the coordination of roadworks, and why certain works take place at certain times, so here is a brief overview of how the Network Management Team schedules roadworks around the county.
The team manages more than 24,000 permits for work on Wiltshire’s highways each year.
Utilities companies are known as Statutory Undertakers (SU), and they have the legal right to place, maintain, repair, upgrade and expand their apparatus. The council, as the highway authority, can’t stop a SU from working on a road, but it does have the power to coordinate works and apply certain conditions to help minimise disruption for road users through the Wiltshire Highways Permit Scheme.
There are different work categories for Street Works; each category has its own minimum notice period that the SU has to inform the council from the proposed works start date:
- Minor Works: Planned works that do not exceed three days have a three-day notice period.
- Standard Works: Planned works that exceeds three days but not ten days have a ten-day notice period.
- Major Works: Planned works that exceed ten days or require a Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO). The SU has to give no less than three months’ advance notice.
- Immediate Works: Urgent or emergency works that require immediate execution. The SU needs to inform the council within two hours from the start of the works.
As an example, a utilities company may raise a minor permit for two-way lights to replace a pole, and the council would have three days to coordinate the network, which doesn’t allow for much time to collaborate with other street works. Immediate works will give the council no time to coordinate works, but are of course essential, as SUs need to repair serious issues such as gas or water leaks quickly to help keep people safe. In these cases the Network Management Team has the power to suspend other works in the vicinity to help traffic flows in the area.
The Network Management Team can’t always get SUs to collaborate due to notice periods, but where possible they do instruct that the SUs work collaboratively. The team works hard to coordinate the road network in the best way, with the least amount of disruption, while also accommodating SU’s needs and ensuring they can respond to emergencies. Any surplus the council makes through fees and fines is reinvested into the council’s highways maintenance funds.
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