Residents in Woodborough say they are “delighted” as up to £500,000 will be spent fixing and tidying its damaged roads.
Back in March, the Reform-led Nottinghamshire County Council announced it would be embarking on a “record-breaking” £122.5 million project to fix the county’s highway network in the 2026/27 financial year.
The authority has come up with a six-point plan to tackle Nottinghamshire’s strained and crumbling roads, focusing on prevention, permanent first-time repairs, stronger materials, better value from crews and equipment, extra winter crews and lobbying for more long-term Government funding.
One scheme in the project – that is receiving a significant pot of money – is in the small Gedling village of Woodborough, near Calverton.
Council plans state that between £400,000 and £500,000 is being put aside for resurfacing and structural patching works on the village’s busiest roads.
Works will take place from the Bank Hill junction to the 50 miles-per-hour limit on Foxwood Lane towards Calverton. But documents do not currently specify the nature of the works set to be carried out on that route.
The highways team will also be resurfacing from Foxwood Lane up to near 42 Bank Hill and completing structural patching on Main Street from the Bank Hill junction to White’s Croft.
Juliette Smith, 58, has lived in the village for around two years. She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I’m happy for it to happen, this place can flood, so it will have some sort of bearing.
“The roads haven’t been great, they’re getting worse and [the damage] is even creeping up to my driveway.
“Bank Hill is quite bad. It’s downhill, and people will go down there at speed, and there are lots of twists and turns in country lanes.
“If there are potholes, it’s dangerous. It’s the main road in and out of Woodborough, that’s where people cut through.”
Ms Smith said her main concern is that the authority “do it right first time”.
Eighty-four-year-old Roger Holehouse, who has lived in the village for 59 years, says the county’s roads have been “atrocious” and Foxwood Lane is the worst in the village.
He said: “My house is rated a H in council tax banding, so my rates are over £5,000 a year – I don’t get my money’s worth. I want my £5,000 on the roads or on the bins.
“Foxwood Lane and Bank Hill is the main route with traffic from Calverton, they don’t come through the village.
“In recent times, they’ve built a lot of houses in Lambley and Burton Joyce. There’s a lot more traffic in from new houses, so it wears the roads out. Bank Hill takes all that traffic from the new houses being built in Calverton.”
Simon and Julie Pomeroy, who moved to the area in late 2024, said they were “delighted” at the news of the upcoming roadworks.
They said: “The two main roads that need it are the ones they’re doing. Foxwood Lane desperately needs to be done.
“It’s aggravated a bit by the flooding we get – it’s been much better this year, but the damage has already been done. The pavements desperately need doing as well.”
A September 2025 survey found about 38 per cent of Nottinghamshire’s roads are in ‘poor condition’, along with more than half of all road markings being in ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ condition. The multi-million-pound investment will resurface and patch about 16 per cent of roads.
About 45 per cent of the £122.5 million money pot has come from the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA), with the other 55 per cent provided by the council, through money raised in council tax and secured grants from other funders.
Other roads in the borough are set for hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of works, which are listed below:
- Between £300,000 to £400,000 will be spent on Arnold Lane on resurfacing works from the mini roundabout at the Main Road junction to Besecar Avenue.
- For Howbeck Road in Arnold, between £250,000 to £300,000 will go towards resurfacing from the surface joint near Coppice Road to Hamilton Close.
- In Carlton, £300,000 to £400,000 will be spent on resurfacing Prospect Road, stretching from Valley Road to Standhill Road.
