Road works in Mid Sussex this week
Surface dressing involves spraying a coating of bitumen on the road, followed by one or more layers of hard stone chippings.
The work makes the road safer because it improves the skid resistance of the surface.
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Surface dressing is taking place from yesterday (Monday, June 10) until Friday, June 14, subject to weather conditions, in the following locations:
• Cowfold Road, Bolney;
• Cuckfield Road, between Ansty and the Cuckfield Bypass, Ansty;
• High Street, between Brantbridge Lane and B2036 Balcombe Lane, Balcombe;
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Hide Ad• Wheatsheaf Road, between A281 Crouch Hill and Blacklands Farm campsite, Henfield;
• The Street and High Street, between Castle Lane roundabout and Hyde Lane, Bramber and Upper Beeding;
• Clays Hill/Bramber Road, between High Street and A283 Steyning Bypass, Steyning;
• Deacons Way, Upper Beeding;
• Pepperscoombe Lane, Upper Beeding;
• Steyning Road, between Ashurst and Wappingthorn Farm Lane, Ashurst;
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Hide Ad• Peppers Lane/School Lane, between Honeybridge Lane and Steyning Road, Ashurst;
• Chanctonbury Ring Road, Wiston;
• Downsview Avenue, Storrington;
• Fryern Road, between Thakeham Road and Greenhurst Lane, Storrington;
• Monkmead Lane, between Harborough Hill and Common Hill, West Chiltington;
• London Road, Washington;
• Woodlands Avenue, Rustington; and
• Talbot Road, Littlehampton.
The work complements Operation Watershed, the County Council’s initiative to make communities more resilient to extreme weather.