Bolton: Resurfacing repair works underway on Gilnow Road

The works, an investment of more than half a million pounds, are taking place along Gilnow Road and Tudor Avenue as well as around the junctions of Park Road with Gilnow Road and around the Chorley New Road and Tudor Avenue junction.

This comes after road users and people living nearby had raised concerns about potholes and other defects affected their driving through it.

Cllr Linda Thomas said: “Although there has been some disruption whilst the works have been taking place, the intention has been to keep it to a minimum during the school holiday period when there is less traffic in the area.

The road should soon be repaired (Image: Cllr Richard Silvester)

“We hope the work will be completed by the end of August.”

Gilnow Road, which leads on to Mayor Street and Tudor Avenue, and goes between Queens Park and Heaton Cemetery.

Works are underway (Image: Cllr Richard Silvester)

Images from around the Gilnow Road area show extensive works taking place with road signs and traffic cones in place.

Potholes and the general state of the roads has long been a problem, not just around Gilnow Road but all across Bolton.

Councillors have seen the site for themselves (Image: Cllr Richard Silvester)

A study released in March of this year found that the borough was one of the worst in the country in this respect with 6,887 potholes reported, coming to an equivalent of 11.08 potholes per mile.

This made Bolton the seventh worst affected area in England and Wales.

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But since then repair works have also been undertaken on various roads, often in response to concerns raised by road users in the area.

People have been concerned about the state of the roads (Image: Cllr Richard Silvester)

Recent council meetings have also heard how efforts have been made to fund road repairs all over the borough and to ensure that when problem areas are identified, work is carried out.

Where Gilnow Road is concerned, Cllr Thomas and her colleagues Cllr Richard Silvester and Cllr Akhtar Zaman, who all represent the Queens Park and Central ward on Bolton Council, say they have been lobbying the authority’s highways department for some time to make improvements.

In total, the costs of repairing the roads comes to £612,000.