WORK to sort out some of the most potholed roads in the area is under way.
Highways workers moved onto South View, next to Page Park in Staple Hill, in early May. As the Voice went to print the road had been resurfaced and was awaiting new markings.
Malmains Drive in Frenchay has also been resurfaced.
Work to resurface a stretch of Peache Road and Northcote Road, between Downend and Mangotsfield – where large, deep patches of road surface have worn away – is due to begin on June 5.
The council’s work schedule, reported in last month’s Voice, indicated that the stretch to be resurfaced would be from the bus stop opposite Peache Court, at the Westerleigh Road end, to a spot between the Stanbridge Close and Royal Road junctions. But the map supplied by the authority to Staple Hill & Mangotsfield Parish Council highlights the whole of Peache Road and Northcote Road, from Westerleigh Road up to the junction with St James Street and Windsor Place.
Residents have raised concerns over the quality of the work already carried out on some roads, including Oaklands Close in Mangotsfield, where holes had been worn in a thin layer of new surfacing within 24 hours of it being laid.
Pavements on St James Street in Mangotsfield were resurfaced at the end of April.
Work was also under way on a new zebra crossing on Four Acre Road in Bromley Heath as the Voice went to print.
South Gloucestershire Council first drew up plans for the crossing next to the junction with Quakers Road in November 2023, to provide a safer route for families walking to Bromley Heath infant and junior schools.
Contractors have also been resurfacing a stretch of the Avon Ring Road that was only laid last year.
The council’s Streetcare department says the work follows “quality issues” identified with the surface laid last year, and says the work to rectify the error is being done at no cost to taxpayers.
A trial installation of solar lighting studs is being carried out on the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, near Siston Hill and Hobbs Lane, east of the Avon Ring Road, to see if they are suitable for wider use.
If the trial is judged to be a success, the ground lights could be installed between the Siston Hill roundabout, near Mangotsfield, and Warmley Waiting Room.
Voice readers have pointed out other roads not on the council’s work schedule which are badly affected by potholes, including Bromley Heath Road and Croomes Hill in Downend and Beaufort Road, Staple Hill.