A budget of £9.2 million for the highways capital programme 2025/26 was bolstered by an additional £500,000 council investment to help fix and prevent surface defects at last month’s council cabinet meeting.
It will see dozens of roads and footways across the city given a new lease of life.
Roads included in the approved programme of improvements for 2025/26 – a mixture of resurfacing and surface dressing – can be seen in the list below along with approved footway improvements, with others to be confirmed.
Councillor Qaiser Azeem, City of Wolverhampton Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport and Green City, said: “Addressing potholes is a priority for City of Wolverhampton Council as we understand how important a safe and well maintained highways network is for all modes of transport.
“While we carry out thousands of repairs to potholes every year, and will continue to do so, prevention work is key in the long term.
“That is why we are investing in a further programme of resurfacing and other surface treatments informed by condition surveys and inspections across the network, identifying where improvements can make the most difference.
“This approach is considered best practice nationally and will help us to reduce the need for reactive repairs in the long run.”
Surface dressing can extend the life of roads, reducing the need for reactive repairs. It is completed quickly with little disruption to traffic. Where more extensive work is required, full resurfacing projects are completed.
Over the past 5 years the council has treated more than 560 square kilometres of carriageway by resurfacing or surface dressing and repaired more than 58,000 defects in roads and footways – up to 44 per working day.
Pothole repairs are carried out throughout the year too as the council strikes a balance between preventative and reactive work.
The highways capital programme also funds road safety and traffic management work, upgrades to car parks, streetlighting upgrades and more.
Approved improvements planned for 2025/26
Road resurfacing
Cannock Road from Stafford Steet to Springfield Road
Wood End Road - Roundabout to Amos Lane
A4039 Millfields Road
Whitgreave Avenue - Roundabout at Leacroft Avenue
Ruskin Avenue - Entire length
Hall Lane from Hurst Road to Robert Wynd
Surface treatment
Fairview Road
Blackhalve Lane from Cannock Road to City boundary
A449 - Penn Road from southbound roudnabout Penn Road to end of the dual carriageway near Lonsdale Road
Birches Barn Road from Bradmore Road to roundabout Stubbs Road
Rookery Street from roundabout Well Lane to Rookery Bridge
Springhill Lane from Warstones Road to City boundary (Wynne Crescent)
Bhylls Lane from Langley Road to Castlecroft Road
B4484 - Pear Tree Lane from roundabout Blackhalve Lane to Cannock Road
Birchfield Avenue and Nethy Drive
Cockshutts Lane
Downing Close
Bilston Road from Moseley Road to Keyway
Elston Hall Lane from Short Road to Three Tuns Lane
Millfields Road from Manor Road to Tarmac Road
Wellington Road from no.121 to Stowheath Lane East Park
Moseley Road from Willenhall Road to Waite Road
A41 Wellington Road from Prouds Lane to Mount Pleasant
Lichfield Street from Bow Street to Mount Pleasant
Merridale Road from Chapel Ash to Oaks Crescent Park/Graiseley
A41 Bilston Road from eastbound roundabout Ring Road to Commercial Road
Footway Programme
Bradmore Road from Broad Lane to Jeffcock Road
Broad Lane from Trysull Road to roundabout Finchfield Road
Penn Road from the end of the dual carriageway near Lonsdale Road to Pennhouse Avenue
Cannock Road from the roundabout at The Scotlands to the roundabout at Park Lane
Hilton Road
Myatt Avenue
Mostyn Street
Swinford Road
Bloomsbury Street
Penhallow Drive
Henwood Road Service Road from 29 to 157
Pountney Street
Little Pountney Street
Lowe Street
Tyninghame Avenue
Ednam Road
Sherrans Dell
