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.

Notice: A1 Islington High St at the junction with Pentonville Rd, Angel Junction and Torrens Street Improvement

The works are scheduled to take place from Saturday 29 October 2011 to Sunday 12 February 2012 on the roads and footways of the A1 Islington High Street, A501 Pentonville Road, City Road, Goswell Road, St John Street and Torrens Street.

The work will be carried out by Ringway Jacobs for Transport for London (TFL). The works will take place 24 hours a day with noisy works being done before midnight.

Please contact TfL Streets Customer Services on 0845 305 1234 or visit www.tfl.gov.uk/contact if you have any queries relating to the works.

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.

Pothole Repairs

In March 2011, Islington was awarded £143,296 from the Department for Transport as a contribution to repairing potholes resulting from the extreme weather conditions. Islington currently spends £937,000 on reactive highways maintenance, this additional funding has been used to carry out patch repairs to complement our capital renewal programme of £1.4 million. The streets that have benefited from this additional funding are listed on the document below - Pothole Repair Funding 2011.