Pothole plague: All the roads in each district of Cambridgeshire earmarked for priority repairs
More than £59million will be spent on Cambridgeshire’s roads, pathways, bridges and rights of way over the coming year, as concerns grow about the state of the county’s highways.
Cambridgeshire County Council has set out its spending plans, including a list of roads that have been prioritised for major repairs in 2025-26.
Cllr Alex Beckett (Lib Dem, Queen Edith’s), chair of the highways and transport committee, told a meeting last week that it was “really great to see this administration able to put that amount of investment” into the county’s roads.
Cllr Neil Shailer (Lab, Romsey) said the authority was putting funding towards proactive preventative work to prevent potholes forming.
More than £28.7m will be spent on carriageway structural and preventative work, with a further £7.2m earmarked for structural and preventative work on pathways and cycleways.
The budget also includes £3.1m towards bridge strengthening work, and £735,000 for maintaining the county’s rights of way.
Cllr Peter McDonald (Lib Dem, Duxford) felt the £500,000 for signs and line replacement across the county “seemed a bit low”.
Cllr Alan Sharp (Con, Woodditton) shared these concerns, but officers highlighted there is another £350,000 funding for this in the revenue budget.
Concerns about recurring potholes have been growing, with South Cambridgeshire’s Liberal Democrat MP Pippa Heylings writing about the issue in her Cambridge Independent column last week,
Blaming the lack of government funding for repairs and maintenance, she said: “The condition of our roads has, it seems, never been worse, and it feels symbolic of our country’s degraded infrastructure.”
Readers have also contacted the Cambridge Independent with concerns about roads including Newmarket Road and the area around the Fendon Road roundabout.
The county council has now released its list of roads where repairs have been prioritised across Cambridgeshire.
Cambridge
£650,000 – Mill Road, carriageway resurfacing from junction with Great Eastern Street to junction with Brooks Road/Perne Road (A1134)
£350,000 – Mill Road, carriageway resurfacing from junction with Mortimer Road to Mill Road Community Centre
£75,000 – Parker Street, carriageway resurfacing from junction with Emmanuel Road to junction with Park Terrace
£210,000 – Jesus Lane, carriageway resurfacing of Four Lamps roundabout, including eastbound approaches
£270,000 – East Road, carriageway resurfacing from Cambridge Community Fire and Rescue Station to junction with Norfolk Street
£220,000 – Cherry Hinton Road, carriageway resurfacing from and including junction with Hills Road to number 32
£272,000 – Gonville Place, carriageway resurfacing from junction with Regent Street/Hills Road/Lensfield Road to YMCA Hostel
£150,000 – Round Church Street, carriageway resurfacing along the full length of road
£360,000 – Hauxton Road roundabout, carriageway resurfacing along the worst sections
South Cambridgeshire
£200,000 – Croxton,Toseland Road, carriageway resurfacing from existing A428 tie into new A428 works, in coordination with National Highways works
£470,000 – Cottenham, High Street, carriageway resurfacing from Margett St to Denmark Road and roundabout at Histon Road
£630,000 – Willingham, Earith Road, carriageway resurfacing from George Street to Roseberry site
£460,000 – Great Shelford, Tunwells Lane, carriageway resurfacing from Grahams Road to and including traffic signals junction
£400,000 – Pampisford, Causeway, carriageway resurfacing of the roundabout at A1301
£290,000 – Shudy Camps, Main Street, carriageway resurfacing from junction with Bartlow Road to The Thatch
£315,000 – Harston, London Road, carriageway resurfacing from the junction with High Street to number 70
£160,000 – Cambourne, Cambourne Road, carriageway resurfacing of the southern roundabout at A428 junction
£65,000 – Waterbeach, Clayhithe Road, carriageway resurfacing from junction with Lode Avenue to junction with Waterbeach Station car park
£110,000 – Graveley, High Street, carriageway resurfacing from number 70 to Ponds Farm Cottage
East Cambridgeshire
£68,000 – Ely, The Gallery, carriageway resurfacing from The Bishop’s House to junction with Silver Street
£232,000 – Isleham, Mildenhall Road, carriageway resurfacing from construction joint before s-bend to county boundary
£140,000 – Ely, Broad Street, carriageway resurfacing from junction with Back Hill to junction with Cardinals Way
£862,000 – Little Downham, Hundred Foot Bank, carriageway reconstruction from junction with Downham footpath 3 to county boundary
£132,000 – Stuntney, Stuntney Causeway, carriageway resurfacing from junction with A142 to Anchor Lodge
£102,000 – Littleport, Ponts Hill, carriageway resurfacing of the entire road
£830,000 – Soham, Great Fen Road, carriageway recycling from Newland Bungalow to junction with Chapel Lane
£300,000 – Ely, Kings Avenue, carriageway resurfacing throughout the road
Huntingdonshire
£640,000 – Sawtry, Green End Road, carriageway resurfacing from Sawtry Interchange to Gidding Road plus various junctions
£176,000 – Yaxley, Dovecote Lane, carriageway resurfacing at junction with Waterslade Road, including junction with Broadway JCT
£280,000 – Wistow, Mill Road, carriageway resurfacing from 30mph (including Kingston Way junction, Parsonage St junction, Bridge Street junction) up to ‘no through road’ sign
£1,100,000 – Holme, Long Drove, carriageway recycling
£110,000 – Yaxley, Main Street, carriageway resurfacing at Windsor Drive junction
£105,000 – Yaxley, Main Street, carriageway resurfacing at Windsor Drive junction
£1,260,000 – The Stukeleys, Spittals Way, carriageway resurfacing between roundabouts
£410,000 – Godmanchester, Cambridge Road, carriageway resurfacing at the roundabout at the A1198
£330,000 – Hemingford Abbots, Rideaway, carriageway resurfacing from A1307 slip off
£250,000 – Ramsey Forty Foot, Forty Foot Bank, carriageway reconstruction, Nr properties nr Puddock Road junction
£50,000 – Buckworth, Barham Road, carriageway resurfacing along failed section only
Fenland
£145,000 – Chatteris, High Street, carriageway resurfacing at the Railway Lane roundabout
£560,000 – Wisbech, Norwich Road, carriageway resurfacing from Churchill Road to Park St and Clarkson Avenue to Lerowe Road
£465,000 – Manea, Station Road, carriageway resurfacing from Wimblington Road to Wisbech Road
£350,000 – March, Creek Road, carriageway resurfacing from Mill View to St Johns Rd and Waterside Gds to Marsh Close
£320,000 – Chatteris, Bridge Street, carriageway resurfacing from A142 roundabout to near pedestrian crossing
£700,000 – Coates, Coates Road, carriageway resurfacing from The Fold to Minuet Gardens
£500,000 – Leverington, Gorefield Road, carriageway resurfacing from Mays Lane to Fendyke
£300,000 – Wisbech, Ramnoth Road, carriageway resurfacing, from Money Bank to Queen Elizabeth Drive
£480,000 – Gorefield, Harolds Bank, carriageway recycling from Honeyhill Road to Black Lane
£780,000 – Manea, Wimblington Road, carriageway recycling from Boots Bridge to new surfacing joint
£100,000 – Wisbech, Ollard Avenue, carriageway resurfacing along the full length of the road
£380,000 – Wisbech, St Michaels Avenue, carriageway resurfacing along the full length of the road
£1,261,300 – Chatteris, Sixteen Foot Bank, carriageway recycling from Horesway to nr Broad Alder Farm
£1,000,000 – Doddington, Floods Ferry Road, carriageway recycling from B1093 to bridge past factory, phase one of two
£175,000 – March, City Road, carriageway resurfacing from Burrowmoor Road
£550,000 – Murrow, Black Drove, carriageway recycling along the full length
£150,000 – Parson Drove, Silvers Lane, carriageway recycling along the full length
£90,000 – Wimblington, Hooks Road, carriageway recycling from Eastwood End to farm
£160,000 – Murrow, Cants Drove, carriageway recycling on damaged areas near Gull Road
