Published on Tuesday 30 May 2023
As part of BCP Council’s ongoing highways maintenance programme, essential carriageway resurfacing will be undertaken on Wimborne Road in Poole from Kings Close, through the New Inn junction, up to Daisy Close in Oakdale.
The work will also include resurfacing the junctions of some of the important roads where they join Wimborne Road, including Dorchester Road, Darbys Lane and Fernside Road
The work is due to start on Monday 5 June 2023and complete on Wednesday 28 June. It will be undertaken in four phases with different road and lane closures in place for each phase (see table below). During the works, traffic will be managed by diversions and temporary traffic lights and the diversion routes will be fully signposted.
Wimborne Road repair and re-surfacing works schedule.
| Phase and Road | Closure Location | Planned Times / Dates |
| Phase 1:Dorchester Road | Closed between Wimborne Rd and Derbys Lane | From 7am Monday 5 June to 6pm Thursday 15 June |
| Phase 2:Wimborne Road | Closed northbound onlyfrom Kings Close to Heath Avenue. No access to / from Vicarage Road | From 7am Monday 12 June to 6pm Friday 16 June and From 7am Monday 19 June to 6pm Thursday 22 June |
| Phase 3:Darbys Lane | Closed south of Nansen Avenue including the entrance to Hennings Park Road | From 7am to 6pm on Friday 23 June |
| Phase 4:Fernside Road and Wimborne Road | Fernside Road from Seliot Close to New Inn junction and Wimborne Road from Kings Close to Dorchester Road | Overnight from 7pm to 6am Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 June (finishing 6am Wednesday 28 June) |
Some local bus routes will be temporarily affected and BCP Council has worked closely with local bus partner Morebus to identify suitable diversion routes. Full details of these bus service changes will be available at Morebus' Service Updates page or download the Morebus app and check the ‘Service Updates’ page.
Julian McLaughlin, Director for Infrastructure at BCP Council said:
"This essential road resurfacing project will improve the surface quality and safety along this busy section of Wimborne Road in Poole. At the end of the project all users will benefit from a smooth, pot-hole free route into and out of Poole town centre.
"We have scheduled this work as carefully as possible to minimise the disruption to local residents, commuters and all other road users and have included some periods of night work to help speed-up the project and keep it as short as possible.
"The nature of the project means that both day and night-time work is required and cannot be limited to night-time only. We appreciate that there will inevitably be an impact on traffic flow, so would please ask the travelling public to allow extra time for their journeys or utilise alternative transport such as walking, cycling or taking the bus where viable. We are doing everything possible to limit the length of time that these important roads will be closed. We thank all road users for your patience while the works are carried out and apologise in advance for the disruption caused."
This highway maintenance work, which is being undertaken by BCP Council’s Neighborhood Services team, has been planned to run in conjunction with sustainable travel improvements work (funded through the south east Dorset Transforming Cities Fund) which are currently underway in the same area. This will allow work on these two important projects to be carried out at the same time, again helping to reduce overall duration, disruption and costs.
More information about the Wimborne Road resurfacing works programme including maps of the diversion routes, can be found at: Highway maintenance (bcpcouncil.gov.uk).