Overnight resurfacing is due to take place on five main roads over the next month.
London Road (A23), Ditchling Road, Dyke Road, Portland Road and Sackville Road will all be resurfaced at the following times:
- A23 London Road between Tongdean Lane to Preston Park – Monday 3 November to Friday 28 November
- Ditching Road between Fiveways and Viaduct Road – Monday 3 November to Tuesday 11 November
- Dyke Road – Clifton Road and Church Street – Wednesday 12 November to Friday 14 November
- Portland Road between Sackville Road and Bolsover Road – Monday 17 November to Friday 28 November
- Sackville Road – Railway Bridge to Portland Road – Monday 1 December to Friday 5 December
Diversions will be in place during the work between 8pm and 6am. Access to homes and businesses will be maintained at all times.
Councillor Trevor Muten, cabinet member for transport, said: “These are some of the busiest roads in the city and in real need of resurfacing, so I’m pleased to see this work getting underway.
“Thousands of people travel around the city by car, bus, bike and taxi every day. It’s important our roads are kept in good condition, treated, repaired and resurfaced so people can move around as smoothly and as safely as possible.
“With £1.6 million extra in grant funding from central goverment, we’re investing £8 million into our roads and pavements this year, making our roads safer, improving junctions and creating better infrastructure for our residents, businesses and visitors – all helping towards becoming a city we can be proud of.”
Meanwhile, 13 more roads have been treated in the last month with a layer of microasphalt. The council says this can extend the life of the road by around 10 years and reduce the need for ongoing pothole repair.
The roads treated were Warmdene Road, Arundel Road, College Terrace, Curwen Place, Upper Chalvington Place, Warbleton Road, Chiddingly Close, St Pauls Street, Aberdeen Road, St Mary Magdalene Street, Kingsmere and Barnfield Gardens.
That’s great news for my fillings as I’ve had a few shaken loose while navigating Sackville Road!
manor road has been waiting for a resurface for over 2 years now are they joking
Carden Avenue and The Crossway in hollingdean desperately need resurfacing!
Hope they finish lewes road first. London road, lewes road and Ditchling road all being done means living near the level pretty hard hard to get to
Any improvement has to be a good thing and yes,, they have to start somewhere.
While no one can deny the roads need resurfacing. with five major routes closed before Christmas on top of the VG3 disruptions, Christmas shoppers won’t need much encouragement to skip Brighton and Hove altogether and do their Christmas shopping elsewhere. Is this the council’s plan by scheduling all this disruption so close together at this time of year? It’s incredible to think this doesn’t seem to have crossed their minds and they do not seem to care about local businesses.
Elaine
These roads will only be closed from 8pm – 6am – hardly prime shopping hours – not during the day,
Apart from one project all the works will be over by the end of November (and some well before) so not prime Christmas shopping dates.
Whenever these works take place someone will always complain. Its too close to Christmas! Too close to Easter! It’s the school holidays! and so on. The council cannot win!
Yes this is their plan. The Labour Council hate cars. Look at their plans for red routes in independent shopping areas.
You can’t leave your car in the current proposed areas right now, red routes just make it harder for you to circumvent it.
Red Routes are put in to help traffic flow not hinder it.
What it hinders is driversi nconsideratly parking where they shouldn’t and disrupting traffic flow for everyone else.
Like this business owner who is against a red route but it is her (and others) actions that are resulting in a red route being proposed in the first place
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/04/29/shopkeeper-starts-petition-to-fight-red-route-proposal/
Xmas shopping is done on the Internet Elaine , haven’t you heard about it?
The Crossway in Hollingdean resembles the somme.Some of the potholes are big enough to swallow a small dog. Davey drive is not much better and should have been repaired 2 years ago!
Why are council trash bins parked on road corners over double yellow lines.
So much for road safety!