Nottinghamshire County Council is set to send out its crews to tackle damaged roads across several locations in Gedling borough and beyond over the next month.
In March 2026, the Reform-led authority announced it would be spending a “game-changing” £122.5 million on the county’s crumbling road network in 2026/27, with an aim to resurface and patch around 16 per cent of roads.
The following month, it announced a further boost of £58.75 million to go on highways, making the year’s total spend on roads “the largest investment ever made” in Nottinghamshire’s highways, at £181.25 million.
Both boosts of cash came after a September 2025 survey found about 38 per cent of the county’s roads in ‘poor condition’, along with more than half of all road marking being in ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ condition.
Reform’s two new JCB Pothole Pro machines – hired for £132,000 for the year – will also be out fixing some of the damage caused to roads, with experts previously telling the Nottingham Post they can prepare a pothole “in as little as five minutes”.
With works across various parts of the road network already under way, here is a list of larger-scaled works the authority’s highway team, VIA, is aiming to start between Tuesday, May 26 and Monday, June 22…
Gedling
- Lambley Avenue, Mapperley, resurfacing works to the whole length of road, estimated to start on May 26 and finish on May 31.
- Shelford Road, Gedling (Phase 1), resurfacing from Arnold Lane to Freda Avenue, estimated to start on June 1 and finish on June 12.
- Longue Drive, Calverton, resurfacing works from Georges Lane to Jumelles Drive and from Rowan Close to Jumelles Drive, estimated to start on June 1 and finish on June 5.
- Prospect Road, Carlton, resurfacing from Valley Road to Standhill Road, estimated to start on June 1 and finish on June 12.
