Road and Highway Maintenance

The maintenance of Islington's streets is divided between:

• roads maintained by Transport for London(TfL)
• private roads, including Islington's housing estates
• all others, which Islington Council maintains

To report a problem with your street, click on the link for Report an Environmental Problem located on the right under Do It.

Then choose the appropriate link to open an electronic form for you to submit your report to the council.

Red Routes

Repairing damage to the Red Routes, which includes the old trunk roads within Islington is the responsibility of TfL. Red Routes can usually be identified by the red road markings but side streets off Red Routes marked with red lines near the junction are maintained by Islington.

For further information, refer to the TfL Contact Centre:

Tel: 0845 305 1234
Email: londonstreets@tfl.gov.uk

Private Roads

Private roads are not generally the council's responsibility, although the housing department is responsible for maintaining their roads and pavements.

It is possible that the footway on a public highway street may contain areas of private property/footway even though the public may walk on the private property/footway and treat it as if it were part of the public highway.

Street Furniture

Street furniture that may require maintenance includes:

• broken or seriously dislodged bollards
• damaged guard rail that could cause injury to pedestrians
• fly tipped builder's rubble
• hazardous posts with signs attached or signs with head room less than 2.4m
• signs facing the wrong way

With some faults requiring urgent repair, the delivery time for equipment takes several weeks. In certain circumstances, make safe measures may be required.

The majority of other faults which do not pose a hazard will be repaired under normal planned programmed maintenance.