Sandown Road set for improvement

Island Roads will be carrying out highway improvement work on Sandown Road at Lake next month.

Sections of the highway between Cemetery Road and Newport Road will be improved in a project scheduled to start on Monday November 3 and last five days.

The work seeks to strengthen the foundations of the road to address the issue that have caused surface deterioration. As this involves deeper-than-usual excavations a full 24-hour road closure will be required for the duration of the scheme.

While closed as a through route, the work is being phased so residents will still be able to access their properties if it is safe to do so unless work is directly outside. Pedestrian access will be maintained. Diversions for traffic will be signposted locally.

An Island Roads spokesperson said: “Residents and road users will know that this section of road does need to be improved and unfortunately it is not possible to do this without causing some short-term inconvenience.

“We thank the community in advance for their co-operation and understanding and hope any short-term disruption will be offset by the longer term benefits the work will bring.”

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Pleased to say that the A3056 at Arreton is now open for the weekend (under traffic lights). The road will close again when the bus stop improvement work resumes on Monday morning. @iow_council

Immediate Closure for Whitecombe Road, Newport.

The closure is necessary to enable BT to carryout urgent repairs.

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We’re making good progress on the bus stop improvement work at Arreton. We hope to re-open the road under lights from this evening until Monday morning when work will resume. Thanks for your understanding during work @iow_council

Today our weedspraying teams are in Bembridge,
Brading, Seaview, Godshill, Chillerton, Arreton, Newchurch and Alverstone.
Tomorrow we'll be in the West Wight district and on Sunday we're in Newport and Carisbrooke.
Details of how and why we spray are here https://islandroads.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Glyphosate-factsheet-June-2025-1.pdf