Maintenance work is to be carried out on streets across Leicester.

The work is being undertaken as part of a programme of maintenance by Leicester City Council.

Major resurfacing work is due in Netherhall Road, while nine streets in communities across the city are due to have a range of carriageway patch repairs done to address surface cracks, potholes and other damage.

The carriageway of Netherhall Road, between Hungarton Boulevard and Rosebarn Way, will be planed and resurfaced, from Sunday 21 October to Sunday 28 October. Speed humps will be removed, the road surface planed down to a depth of about 50mm, with repairs made to joints and defects, before being completely resurfaced and the speed humps re-installed.


Netherhall Road will be closed to through traffic, with local diversions signposted. Parking will also be suspended along the road to allow the work to be carried out. Letters have been sent out to local residents explaining the arrangements.

Elsewhere in the city, smaller patch repairs will be carried out on nine other streets. In each case, the works are expected to last one or two days, during which the streets involved will be closed, and parking suspended.

Work begins at Chatsworth Street, Spinney Hills, on 15 October for one day, followed by nearby Buxton Street on 16 October.

On 17 October, Berners Street in Highfields will be repaired between Mere Road and Melbourne Road, before work moves to nearby Shelbourne Street on 18 October, and Egginton Street on 19 October.

Two days of works will take place at Kingsway Road, Stoneygate, from 22 to 24 October, before moving to a stretch of Evington Drive between Ethel Road and Mayflower Road, on 24 October.

The final two schemes take place in Donnington Street, Highfields, on 25 October, and Rushton Drive in Eyres Monsell on 26 October.

The works at Netherhall Road are costing about £115,000 with the smaller schemes costing about £100,000 in total. The repairs are being funded from the city council’s capital maintenance budget.