A25 Reigate Road : Road Safety Improvements
The Surrey County Council (SCC) Road Safety team, part of SCC Highways, is working on delivery of a programme of “safety improvements” along the stretch of the A25 Reigate Road between the High Street in Reigate and the Cockerel roundabout in Dorking.
Surrey Highways secured funding from the UK Government Department for Transport towards the cost of the programme. A limited amount of information about the 16 schemes which make up this programme of safety improvements, is published on the SCC website. You are encouraged to take a few moments to read the descriptions under each of the scheme headings.
Schemes 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16 have already been delivered. SCC Highways hopes to implement schemes 3, 4, 7 and 9 during the 25/26 financial year.
Update : 28th November 2025 : The SCC Road Safety Team has been trying for much of 2025 to secure licences for road closures to facilitate schemes 4, 7 and 9 and had hoped to undertake white lining work next week. As of this afternoon, a “forecast of sustained wet weather” next week has led the SCC team to conclude their contractors will not be able to complete the white lining work they had planned. Hopefully the signs installed along the A25 will soon be collected in.
The SCC Road Safety team now has to liaise with the SCC Streetworks team (who manage the issue of licences) to identify a clear time window for the work (i.e. a two week period that does not clash with dates that either (i) National Highways has already reserved use of the A25 as a local diversion route to facilitate a closure of the M25 between Junctions 8 (Reigate Hill) and 9 (Leatherhead) or (ii) Network Rail or one of the utility companies have already been granted a licence to work in the highway.
Once new licences have been granted the brief details of the work will be included when the licences are published on the Surrey Roadworks Roadmap. The work will be completed in blocks, the 32 bus will continue to operate to an unchanged timetable and access will be maintained for local residents and businesses.
The SCC Road Safety Team has advised the work will consist of:
- providing central hatching on the stretches that do not already have central hatching to improve the consistency of lining along the route so that there is central hatching throughout, rather than only in some sections. The central hatching will help to separate opposing streams of traffic to reduce the risk of collision through a momentary lapse, drifting or loss of control towards the centre. Overtaking will still be allowed into the central hatching (bounded by a dashed line rather than a solid line) e.g. to overtake a slow-moving farm vehicle or cyclist;
- providing raised rib carriageway markings close to the edge of the carriageway that will mean that any vehicle drifting towards the kerb will vibrate to alert the driver when their wheels bump over the raised ribs. This will help to reduce the risk of vehicles leaving the road due to a lapse of concentration. This edge of carriageway marking will have small gaps in it so that surface water can still drain to the edge of the carriageway;
- additional hatching in the centre of the western arm of the Betchworth Roundabout in anticipation of improvements to the pedestrian crossing facilities; and
- an amendment to the give-way lining at the junction of Rectory Lane which was outstanding following the high containment kerb implemented there.
The SCC Road Safety Team hope to be able to launch consultations on schemes 1, 2 and 5 before the end of March 2026. If you travel between Dorking and Reigate; whether on foot, or on two or more wheels you will be impacted by the changes so you are encouraged to keep abreast of the plans, and, if you have any thoughts on schemes one, two and five, which relate to safety improvements in Dorking (1 and 2) and at the Brockham Lane Junction (5), make a note in readiness for the promised consultations, the timing of which have yet to be announced.
Delivery of Scheme 15 will remain dependant upon sufficient funding being available upon completion of schemes 1-14 and 16.
If, having read the information on the SCC website you have any comments and/or concerns relating to any of the other schemes or feel more details need to be provided; as Surrey Highways does not appear to be making any commitment to consult on these schemes, please share your comments and/or concerns and any requests for more information to both SCC Cllr Helyn Clack and Buckland Parish Council.
Submitting reports to Surrey Highways
SCC Highways Engineers have informed your parish council that when a programme of works is being prepared, reports submitted by residents (via www.surreycc.gov.uk or by calling 0300 200 1003) are taken into account. If you identify an issue or concern relating to any part of a highway in Buckland, whether related to the main carriageway, roadside footway, roadside verge, traffic signage or drainage please submit an online report.
Post last updated 28th November 2025