Roadworks 2023 to 2025 and over Christmas 2025 and 2026
Case reference FOI2026/02504
Received 16 October 2026
Published 12 November 2026
Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act please provide the following about roadworks on roads for which the council is the highway authority. Please include works carried out by the council, its contractors and utility companies.
1. The number of roadworks (permits or notices) that started in each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025.
2. An export from the council's street works register of all roadworks that were active at any point in calendar year 2025, as a spreadsheet, with one row per works and the following fields where held: street or road name; works promoter (council or named utility); works category (e.g. planned, immediate, emergency); traffic management type (e.g. full road closure, lane closure, traffic lights); proposed start date; proposed end date; actual start date; actual end date. Please exclude any personal data.
3. The number of roadworks active at any point between 1 December 2025 and 2 January 2026.
4. The number of roadworks for which a permit or notice had already been granted, as at the date of your response, for works due to be active at any point between 1 December 2026 and 2 January 2027. Please state the date on which this figure was taken.
5. Whether the council operated an embargo or restriction on non-emergency roadworks over the Christmas and New Year period in 2025/26 and, if so, its dates. Where any part would exceed the cost limit please answer the remaining parts and say which part could not be provided.
Response
Under the Freedom of Information Act please provide the following about roadworks on roads for which the council is the highway authority. Please include works carried out by the council, its contractors and utility companies.
1. The number of roadworks (permits or notices) that started in each of the calendar years
2023,
Answer: 7528
2024 and
Answer: 7140
2025.
Answer: 7250
2. An export from the council's street works register of all roadworks that were active at any point in calendar year 2025, as a spreadsheet, with one row per works and the following fields where held: street or road name; works promoter (council or named utility); works category (e.g. planned, immediate, emergency); traffic management type (e.g. full road closure, lane closure, traffic lights); proposed start date; proposed end date; actual start date; actual end date. Please exclude any personal data.
Answer: Please see attached spreadsheet.
3. The number of roadworks active at any point between 1 December 2025 and 2 January 2026.
Answer: 558.
4. The number of roadworks for which a permit or notice had already been granted, as at the date of your response, for works due to be active at any point between 1 December 2026 and 2 January 2027. Please state the date on which this figure was taken.
Answer: 211, (data taken at 09.11.26 @ 10:13am)
5. Whether the council operated an embargo or restriction on non-emergency roadworks over the Christmas and New Year period in 2025/26 and, if so, its dates.
Answer: 13th – 31st December 2025.
Where any part would exceed the cost limit please answer the remaining parts and say which part could not be provided.
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