Road maintenance and improvements

How the Council maintains roads and pavements

Our policies relating to highway management, and our scheduled highways improvement work.

Highway maintenance funding increase (Network North)

The Government is giving £8.3 billion in additional funding for road resurfacing projects across the country over the next 11 years.

Coast Road Cycleway Scheme

Work has started to widen the Coast Road (A183) cycleway between Marsden Bay and the New Crown roundabout in South Shields.

Traffic lights improvement scheme

We are currently modernising traffic lights across the area on key bus routes.

A183 Coast Road realignment

Find out about our project to move the Coast Road in South Shields.