Current & Future Roadworks 2025
Bentfield Road
- Closure 5-6 June – Essex County Council needs to close the road to patch pavement defects.
- Closure 9-10 June – Essex County Council needs to close the road (passed Bentfield Causeway) to patch pavement defects.
Bentfield Gardens
- Traffic Control 16-17 June – Lights will be used by Essex Highways while while repairs to the road surface are carried out
Cambridge Road
- Closure 14 -21 May – Near the Pound Lane junction, Essex County Council carrying out road repairs
Cawkell Close
- Closure 16-17 June – Essex County Council will close the road for carriageway resurfacing
Chapel Hill
- Closure 26 -28 August – Essex County Council will close the road for carriageway resurfacing
Church Road
- Closure 11-15 August – Essex County Council will close the road for drainage work
Grove Hill
- Traffic Closure April 28-2 July – The road will be impacted by the shutting of Stansted Road to allow Affinity Water to undertake its work on a water main.
Long Croft
- Closure 6-7 June – Carriageway resurfacing by Essex County Council
Lower Street
- Closure 7 July -1 August – to allow Cadent to replace gas pipes along Lower Street (from the junction with Grove Hill towards and including High Lane)
Stansted Road
- Traffic Closure April 28-3 July – The road will be closed on the top of Grove Hill. These roadworks are to allow Affinity Water to complete essential maintenance work.
Station Road
- Closure 2-4 June – Carriageway resurfacing by Essex County Council.
When will the roadworks start?
The dates of roadworks reflect those on the permit issued by Essex Highways to a company or authority intending to carryout roadworks.
When roadworks actually start can depend on the company and specifically their team on site digging up the carriageway.
Permits tell a company or authority when they can start the work and when they must be finished by. Essex Highways says roadworks can begin prior to the date on a permit, but only by a few days or so. This is because a company may be unable to get a new permit with an amended date issued in time. So a degree of latitude is permitted in this regard.
Also, roadworks can start and end at any point between the permit dates. For example if roadworks are scheduled from June 1st until June 30th, a highway could stay open until a roadworks team turn up and decide to start digging, be that on June 2nd or June 22nd.
However, a closure can not extend beyond an authorised date unless they submit a request for a new permit.
Public complaints can sometimes prompt Essex Highways to adjust dates of roadworks.
About this information
Details of the above roadworks has been taken from Essex Highways future roadworks map.
This is updated regularly and should be your first port of call when searching for information about roadworks in Stansted Mountfitchet.
Roadworks and the Parish Council
SMPC as a lower tier local authority has no highways powers and is not involved in either the scheduling or granting of permission of roadworks in the village.
Essex Highways has the sole responsibility in highways matters in our area and for granting roadworks permits.