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Capital maintenance programme

We are making the biggest investment in highways maintenance for over a decade.

A lot of this work is through the capital maintenance programme, which delivers large-scale, high-value planned improvements to the public highway across Cambridgeshire. 

On these pages, you can find out more about the planned maintenance work we’re doing in your area. Find out about planned improvements to roads, drains, pavements, bridges and signals.

You can visit other pages to find out more about how we’re repairing potholes.

What’s happening in my area?

Follow the links below for where we’re delivering improvements across Cambridgeshire in 2024-25.

You can also see delivery dates and working hours. These pages will be updated regularly.

Road with two lanes with grass and bushes on both sides
Road improvements
Drain at the side of a road
Drain improvements
Pavement running alongside road
Pavement improvements
Pedestrian and cycle bridge over top of road leading to roundabout
Structure work
Red triangle sign at side of road showing traffic lights
Signal repairs

Frequently asked questions

Capital maintenance is long-term, planned and high value work. It includes:

  • Structural road maintenance
  • Non-structural road maintenance, including surface dressing, micro asphalt and pre-patching roads
  • Structural footway maintenance, including reconstructing footways
  • Drainage projects, including upgrading existing assets
  • Repairs to structures, including bridges
  • Upgrading traffic lights / junctions
  • Public Rights of Way, including maintaining and surfacing existing rights of way
  • Upgrading signs and road markings
  • Grass cutting, countywide verge cutting and weed spraying

The published programme is for 2024-25 and this work is now being delivered. There is more work planned during the year. We are adding more schemes as and when they are confirmed.

Please keep checking back to see schemes planned for your area and when they will be delivered.

We are also planning for 2025-26. This is only the start of the work to repair our infrastructure backlog.

To learn more about how schemes of work are added to the capital maintenance programme every year, please see  highway policies and capital maintenance programme and our Transport Delivery Plan.

Also, please contact us via the links below, to tell us what improvements you would like to see in your area.

Over the next two years, we are putting an additional £43 million into highways. This is the biggest multi-year investment for over a decade. 73% of residents have told us they are dissatisfied with the deterioration in the state of many of Cambridgeshire’s roads and footpaths. We’ve listened and we’re making record investment.

This means we're now able to start tackling the repair backlog and begin getting our network into better shape, delivering safer and more sustainable journeys for everyone in Cambridgeshire.

We know that even record levels of investment won’t fix all the problems. But we are determined to tackle the challenge and give our residents the safe, smooth roads, pathways and cycleways they deserve.

Talk to us

We are very keen to hear from you. Please tell us how we’re doing.  

To report an issue with a road, please visit our report a highways fault page.

To help plan your journeys, you can follow us on X: @Cambs_Traffic

Find out more about the work we’re doing on our social media channels: X, Facebook and Instagram.

If you have any queries or require any additional information about the capital maintenance programme, please email: Local.Highways@cambridgeshire.gov.uk