Croydon road resurfacing 2026/27: all 65 streets listed

Croydon Council says its Pothole Patrol has filled more than 3,000 potholes since January, cutting the average repair to seven days (Croydon Council, 6 August). Filling a hole is not the same as fixing a road, though, and the document that says which Croydon roads get a new surface this year is not the press release. It is Appendix A of the 2026/27 Highways Capital Programme, the report Cabinet approved on 25 March, and it names every street (report to Cabinet, 25 March 2026).

Sixty-five roads are listed for carriageway work and seven for footway resurfacing. Below is the whole list, so you can check your own street.

What the £17.58m buys

The programme totals £17,580,000, made up of £8,618,000 for highways management, £5,120,000 for bridges and structures with a further £700,000 bid for from Transport for London, £435,000 for flood water management, and £2,707,000 from the Department for Transport’s highways maintenance block funding. Within the highways management pot, £6,514,897 goes on carriageways and footways, £482,607 on structural inspections and repairs, and £344,720 on drainage.

For scale, the council puts its network at 726km of carriageways and 1,235km of footways, with 62 maintained bridges and structures, 33,600 gullies and 25,700 street lighting columns, worth about £2.159 billion to replace. Sixty-five schemes a year is what maintaining that asset looks like in practice: the Executive Mayor, Jason Perry, said when the money was agreed that it was “twice the amount of funding secured compared to that received in 2020, and £5m more than last year” (Croydon Council, 26 March).

Where the work is going

Thornton Heath ward has by far the most schemes of any ward in the borough, with 11. Purley and Woodcote follows on 8, then Shirley North on 6, South Norwood on 5 and Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood on 4. Kenley, New Addington North and Norbury Park have 3 each. Sixteen wards have a single scheme.

Full resurfacing list, 2026/27

These 37 roads are down for carriageway resurfacing, the full-depth job. An asterisk marks a scheme deferred from 2025/26.

Preventative treatments (13 roads)

Preventative work seals and protects a surface that has not failed yet, which is cheaper than waiting for it to break up.

Beckett Avenue (Kenley), Byron Avenue (Coulsdon Town), Dulverton Road (Selsdon Vale & Forestdale), Hartley Hill (Kenley), Manor Way (Purley & Woodcote), Monahan Avenue (Purley & Woodcote), Old Lodge Lane (Kenley), Purley Knoll (Purley & Woodcote), Rydons Lane (Old Coulsdon), The Glade* (Old Coulsdon), The Waldrons (Waddon), St Helen’s Road (Norbury Park and Pollards Hill), Mayo Road (Selhurst).

Minor carriageway schemes (15 roads)

Beulah Hill (Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood), Bridle Road (Selsdon & Addington Village), Central Hill (Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood), Green Lane (Norbury Park), Hythe Road (Thornton Heath), Katharine Street (Fairfield), Lakehall Gardens (Bensham Manor), Longheath Gardens (Shirley North), Milner Road (Thornton Heath), Orchard Avenue (Shirley North), Plough Lane (Purley & Woodcote), Purley Vale (Purley & Woodcote), Warminster Road (South Norwood), Whytecliffe Road South (Purley & Woodcote), Woodside Park (Woodside).

Footways (7 roads)

Biggin Wood Road (Norbury Park), Commerce Way (Waddon), Coventry Road (South Norwood), Grovelands Road (Purley & Woodcote), Mayday Road (Broad Green), Station Approach (Coulsdon Town), Windmill Road (Selhurst).

Drainage and bridges

The flood water management budget is £435,000, and several of the schemes below are part-funded from the £344,720 drainage line inside the highways management pot. Foxley Lane in Purley gets three phases of work on its carrier pipes, gully pots and soakaways at an estimated £70,000, £113,000 and £46,000. Other schemes include More Close in Purley (£40,000), Fairdene Road (£55,000), Central Hill (£28,000), Stanford Road (£22,000), Montpelier Road (£25,000), Russell Green Close (£70,000), Station Approach (£42,000), The Glade in Shirley (£18,000) and £80,000 on drilling boreholes to make existing soakaways drain faster.

On structures, the biggest items this year are the reconstruction of Pixton Way footbridge at £1.1m, waterproofing and maintenance on Jubilee Bridge at £0.97m, £0.75m of concrete repair and de-silting on the Brigstock, Norbury and Manor Farm culverts, £0.35m each on College Road decking and Dunbar Avenue bridge, £0.25m on foundation investigation at the Park Lane underpass walls, and £0.15m to strengthen Higher Drive bridge.

What it means for you

If your road is on the list, the year runs to 31 March 2027 and the council does not publish street-by-street dates in the report, so the practical step is to watch for the letters and the yellow “no parking” cones that go out before resurfacing starts, and to move your car when asked. If your road is not on the list, the report is explicit that more roads can be added during the year “subject to the availability of further Department for Transport or other funding and any material changes in network condition identified through ongoing highway inspections”, which means an inspection can still promote your street.

Individual potholes are a separate route: report them through the council’s Love Clean Streets app with a photograph and the exact location, which is what feeds the Pothole Patrol. Our roadworks and travel page sets out who is responsible for which road, and it matters here, because the A23, the A232 and the A22 through Purley and Kenley are red routes belonging to Transport for London, not the council, and none of them appear in this programme. If you are looking at a property on one of these streets, our Croydon house prices page has the borough numbers, and planning applications has what is being built nearby.