Live roadworks

You can view all our current and upcoming planned roadworks, road closures and other traffic disruptions in Cheshire West on the map below. For more detailed information you can register for a OneView account. Please note that emergency roadworks may not be shown as work often starts at short notice.

Upcoming roadworks

We will contact residents and businesses affected and provide them with as much information as possible to reduce the impact on them during the works. This will usually be in the form of a leaflet which will include the scheme information, any diversion routes and access arrangements. 

We inform all emergency services and relevant bodies about all closures on our network, and we allow them access where possible.

We cannot give advanced notice for unplanned work (e.g. emergency works). Utility companies can undertake any works straight away and submit an emergency permit to us with two hours after the start of the work for approval. Often, we are unaware of these incidents until being contacted due to them being emergency works. 

More details of the upcoming road schemes can be found on our current improvement projects page.

Alternatively you can view current and upcoming planned roadworks on our Roadworks map.

Co-ordination of works

We manage all the works of the highway using our permit scheme which requires utility companies and our contractors to submit work proposals to us for approval.

There are other types of works such as major developments which require a street works licence to complete. These works are assessed and granted under a licence agreement if all conditions are agreed. 

All proposed works are reviewed by the team and conditions are added to permits i.e. time of day works can be carried out, length of the work, traffic management and diversion routes. 

We try to keep disruption to a minimum when planning work. We think about the location and type of work when deciding the best time to do repairs or improvement schemes. We try to plan repairs and improvement schemes on our major roads until the school holidays if possible. We consider using restricted working hours, extended hours or overnight working were beneficial to keep disruption to a minimum.

Diversion routes

A diversion route must use roads of a similar classification or higher to allow all road users to travel along the route safely.

For example, when closing an A road, we must divert traffic to another A class road, as this is likely to carry larger vehicles. The use of lower-class road may not be suitable. This can result in the lengthier diversion routes.