Highways responsibilities
Red routes
Responsibility for red routes is shared between Transport for London and Croydon Council. The red routes in Croydon are the A22, A23 and A232.
Transport for London is responsible for:
- highway maintenance
- street lighting
- scaffold licences
- street furniture
- skip licences
- road traffic accidents and call outs
- gully cleansing
- traffic signals
- hoardings.
We are responsible for:
- cleansing
- entrance crossings (planning permission only)
- street trading licences.
Roads other than red routes
We are responsible for all roads not classified as red routes.
Our responsibilities include:
- highway maintenance
- drainage maintenance
- gully cleansing
- winter gritting
- filling salt bins
- repairing faulty street furniture
- making potential hazards safe in an emergency
- clearing up after road traffic accidents
- road and pavement markings
- street lighting and illuminated signs
- registration, co-ordination and inspection of roadworks.
Which roads are red routes?
The following roads are classified as red routes:
A22
Godstone Road, Purley
Godstone Road, Kenley
A23
Banstead Road
Brighton Road, Coulsdon
Brighton Road, Purley (Purley Cross to Brighton Road, Coulsdon)
Foxley Lane (10 Foxley Lane to Purley Way)
London Road, Norbury
London Road, Thornton Heath
Purley Way
Thornton Road
Russell Hill Road
A232
Addiscombe Road (Chepstow Road to Shirley Road)
Barclay Road
Chepstow Road
Croydon flyover
Croydon Road
Duppas Hill Road
Epsom Road (Duppas Hill Road to Purley Way)
Fairfield Road
Park Lane roundabout
Shirley Road (Addiscombe Road to Wickham Road)
Stafford Road (Purley Way to Duppas Hill Road)
Wickham Road
Contact Details
- Contact name
- Purley Oaks Depot
- Telephone
- 020 8726 7100
- Fax
- 020 8763 1649
- SMS
- Text "ENV" to 60660
- highwaysmaintenance@croydon.gov.uk
- Address
- Purley Oaks Depot
1a Riddlesdown Road
South Croydon
CR8 1DG
