What is the planned maintenance programme?

Each year the council publishes it's Planned Maintenance Programme, which covers a range of large-scale refurbishment works for permanent highway repairs.

View the current planned maintenance programme (25KB PDF file)

The proposed planned maintenance programme is designed to the highest standard possible to improve the existing carriageways and footways. It is intended to improve the environment for those people living, working or otherwise using the public highways not only visually, but to make the streets safer and more pleasant to use. These programmes are flexible enough to complement other initiatives with funding from Visual Amenity, Single Regeneration Budget, or Area Improvement Initiative. Highway Maintenance Schemes will be co-ordinated to produce a standard defined by Best Value or better. The specification will continue to be revised to achieve the highest possible standard.

The following items have be taken into account to ‘tune’ the priority list:

  • Areas where accidents have occurred.
  • Co-ordination with Traffic Management schemes such as Controlled Parking Zones, traffic calming measures, environmental schemes etc.
  • Borough wide priority and special areas.
  • Co-ordination with the Street lighting programme.
  • Sites reported by Council members and Complaints received from public.

The works included in the programme are:

Structural maintenance

The structural maintenance program encompasses largescale refurbishment works on the carriageways and footways, and council structures.

Carriageway overlay

Carriageway overlays are designed to improve riding quality of a road by the application of a thin layer of material to the carriageway surface.

Carriageway slurry sealing

Slurry sealing is an economical method of sealing carriageways against the penetration of water and improving skid resistance.

Large area footway programme (LAFP)

The large area footway patching programme encompasses the refurbishment of Borough road footways that are considered to be in a poor condition and includes the conversion of defective stone footways to bituminous material.

Visual amenity/environmental enhancement programme

Visual Amenity schemes are designed to improve visual appearance and ease of maintenance of our streets. Works replacement and modernisation of planter bays, guard railing and benches.

Contact us

Public Realm
Environment and Regeneration
Low Hall
Argall Avenue
London E10 7AS
email wfdirect@walthamforest.gov.uk
tel 020 8496 3000