How can we help?

No password needed — we use magic links. Just enter your email address on the sign-in page and we'll send you a one-click link that logs you straight in. You can also sign in with your Google account if you prefer.

After signing in, head to the Route Alerts dashboard and tap "Add route". Type in your start point and destination (any address or postcode in England), give the route a name like "Work commute" or "School run", and hit Save. We'll start watching that corridor for roadworks immediately.

You can save up to three routes — plenty for a commute, a school run, and one other regular journey. If you need to swap one out, you can delete and recreate routes at any time.

Yes. On the route creation map you can drag the route line to make it follow a different road — useful if you always take a specific back road, for example. On desktop, hover over the route and drag. On mobile, tap "Adjust route" to enter edit mode, then tap points on the map to thread the route through them.

As soon as your route is saved we start monitoring it. If there are works starting tomorrow you'll receive an evening digest that same night. Emergency or urgent works that appear during the day trigger an immediate email, so there's no waiting period.

We send two kinds of email. An evening digest lands each night with a summary of all roadworks due to start on your routes the following day — so you can plan ahead. If new emergency or urgent works are published during the day that affect your routes, we'll send an immediate alert as soon as we see them.

These are works classified by the promoter (the council or utility company) as emergency or immediate-risk in Street Manager. Think burst water mains, gas leaks, or urgent highway repairs. They can appear with very little notice, which is exactly why we send an immediate alert rather than waiting for the evening digest.

We reflect status updates from Street Manager as quickly as we receive them. If works are cancelled or completed before the planned end date, they'll disappear from your dashboard automatically — no stale alerts about things that are already done.

We aim to be genuinely useful, not noisy. The evening digest rolls everything up into a single email, and immediate alerts are reserved for emergency works only. If a quiet week means no works on your routes, you won't hear from us — silence is good news.

Yes. Notification preferences are managed from your dashboard. You can disable the evening digest if you only want immediate alerts for emergencies, or adjust settings per route.

We cover England, where roadworks are reported through the Department for Transport's Street Manager system. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland use different systems, and we'll add coverage when reliable, high-quality data sources become available.

We match roadworks to your saved route using the actual road IDs (USRNs — Unique Street Reference Numbers) from Street Manager, cross-referenced with the corridor along your route on the map. We also include a small buffer around junctions and bends, so we don't miss works that sit just off your line but would still affect your journey.

We show the latest information published by the promoter in Street Manager. We don't assume a job has started or finished just because a proposed date passes — we wait for the promoter to confirm the actual status. Dates do sometimes slip; when they change, your dashboard and the next digest will reflect the update.

Yes. We include motorway and trunk road closures from National Highways alongside local road data from the Department for Transport. On your dashboard, near-me page, and road closures pages, motorway works appear with a blue NH badge so you can easily distinguish them. Route alerts and evening digests include motorway closures too, so if your commute includes a stretch of motorway, you'll be covered.

It happens occasionally, and there are a few reasons it might. The works could have been an emergency that appeared with no prior notice. The promoter (the council or utility company) might have submitted incomplete or late data to Street Manager — this is more common than you'd think. Or it could simply be something in our system that needs a tweak. Whatever the reason, if you spot something that should have flagged and didn't, please let us know via email or the chat widget. Tell us the road and approximate date and we'll look into it.

This one's on us to be upfront about. Roadworks Radar builds its picture from event notifications sent through Street Manager — things like a permit being granted, work starting, or a status change. If a road closure was already in place before we started receiving data, we may have missed the original notification and have no record of it. This means very long-standing closures — ones that have been there for many months — might not appear, even if they're still very much live. It's a known gap that should close over time as our dataset matures. In the meantime, for closures that have been in place a long time, your local council's website is the most reliable check.

These won't appear in Roadworks Radar. Street Manager only covers works that promoters are legally required to notify — things like digging up the road to lay a cable or fix a pipe. Closures caused by things like flooding, local events, or council decisions made at short notice don't go through the same process, so they're invisible to us. For that kind of disruption, your best bet is your local council's website or their social media channels — they're usually quickest to post about it.

Yes. All roadworks data comes directly from the UK Department for Transport's Street Manager — the official system that councils and utility companies are required to use when notifying about works on public roads. We don't invent, modify, or delay the data.

You get 14 days completely free when you sign up — no card required. Create your routes, set up your alerts, and put it through its paces on real journeys. At the end of the trial you can choose to subscribe and carry on, or simply walk away. We won't chase you.

No. Just your email address (or Google account) and you're in. We don't ask for a card upfront — there's nothing to remember to cancel.

We'll remind you before it expires. When it does, you'll be prompted to subscribe to carry on using Roadworks Radar — your dashboard, saved routes, and email alerts. If you don't subscribe, you'll lose access to the paid features but your account stays intact — so you can come back whenever you're ready.

£20 per year. That covers everything: your dashboard, up to three saved routes, the evening digest, and immediate alerts for emergency works. We'll always give existing users advance notice of any price changes.

Absolutely. Cancel from your account settings whenever you like. You'll keep access for the remainder of the period you've already paid for — we don't cut you off the moment you cancel.

We'd love to hear from you — especially while things are still fresh. Drop us an email at support@roadworksradar.uk or use the chat widget. Tell us what you like, what confused you, what you wish it did. Every message gets read.