Middlesbrough Council is pressing ahead with plans to install speed cushions along a 171-metre stretch of Glendale Road, south of the Arlington Road junction, after publishing a statutory notice on 19 May 2026. The notice gave residents 21 days to lodge written objections, and if none are received, the council can start work without further announcement. The scheme is being delivered under the Highways Act 1980, which allows the local authority to build road humps and other traffic calming measures.
The proposed speed cushions will measure roughly 1.7 metres by 2.5 metres and rise no higher than 75 millimetres. The notice was signed by Charlotte Benjamin, the council’s director of legal and corporate services. It follows overnight resurfacing on Glendale Road between 30 March and 2 April this year, when the carriageway was closed and local diversions operated from 7pm until midnight.
Residents can view the traffic calming plan and full notice at Middlesbrough Central Library or on the council’s website. The highways maintenance team has been carrying out an annual carriageway resurfacing programme covering routes across the town, and Glendale Road is among those already treated.
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