Major planned projects in Tunbridge Wells
Current planned projects
Upper Grosvenor Road
Start: 5 May 2025
Duration: Two years
We're replacing 3.5km of two large diameter metal mains along Upper Grosvenor Road. This work will be carried out in two phases during 2025 and 2026.
- This project is ahead of schedule
- Second phase to continue in summer 2026
- Road closure in place for safety
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Forest Road & Bayham Road
Start: 26 August 2025
Duration: Seven weeks
We're carrying out essential network upgrades in Forest Road and Bayham Road to ensure local properties continue to receive a safe and reliable gas supply.
- Work will be carried out over seven weeks
- Road closures and diversions in place
- Temporary lights in operation for safety
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Latest news!
Our work to upgrade the gas network along Upper Grosvenor Road has finished for 2025. The road safely reopened yesterday to motorists and we're clearing our site.
Following a series of leaks experienced in this area, we’ve invested £4 million to replace 3.5km of our old metal mains along this road. Installing our new plastic pipe will provide a permanent solution and avoid future disruption from carrying out unplanned emergency repairs to our network.
Originally, we'd planned to carry out this work in two similar length phases, the first in 2025 and the second in 2026. However, our project was running ahead of schedule despite the complexity of replacing the pipes in this particular location, and we agreed with the local authority to begin the second phase of work early.
Just six weeks of work remain to complete these essential network upgrades. Our engineers will be returning to Upper Grosvenor Road in the school summer holidays, when the roads are typically quieter, to help minimise disruption to the community.
We've received some great feedback from local councillors and stakeholders about our work.
Mike Martin MP, Liberal Democrat MP for Tunbridge Wells, said:
"I'm very impressed with how quickly SGN and its officers have been able to complete this complex but important project of gas work renewal in our town and ahead of schedule."
Cllr Martin Brice, Liberal Democrat Member for Tunbridge Wells South and Tunbridge Wells' Roadwork Tsar, said:
"SGN has demonstrated that it is possible to carry out complex roadworks while consulting with local businesses and keeping the community informed. Moving forward, it's essential that all utilities companies work in collaboration with each other if carrying out important roadworks simultaneously so as to avoid unnecessary gridlock."
Please continue to check this page for further information about the remainder of our work. We'll be providing updates ahead of our second phase starting in summer 2026.
We'd like to thank Tunbridge Wells residents, businesses, and road users for your continued patience while we carry out this essential work. We recognise roadworks can be frustrating, but the new plastic pipe has a lifespan of 80 years, so once this work is complete, the community will be able to enjoy the benefits of a safe and reliable gas supply for many years to come.
Roadworks in your area
It could be emergency work to keep you, and our network, safe. As this type of work is urgent and unplanned, we sometimes start work before it appears on the map.
We're sorry for disturbing you. In an emergency, we need to make the situation safe immediately and sometimes it can't wait until the morning. Watch our short film to find out more about why we have to work at night:
The engineering required for our project would not safely allow night-time work on a live gas supply. The infrastructure under the road is close to other critical utilities such as electricity, water, BT and broadband and we need to avoid these pipes and wires while working in the road.
There are many reasons why engineers may not be visible on site:
- To maintain gas supplies while replacing this gas main there are jobs that require the engineers to leave site
- They could be testing pressures on local governors around the area, collecting materials from local storage, carrying out mandatory health and safety paperwork in their van, or need network access
- The road may be being reinstated and they are waiting for the concrete to cure.
We’ll aim to put signs out to keep you informed.
Search for your road in our local gas works map to find out more about our work. You’ll need to change the date in the search bar so you can see our future work. Click on the gas flame icon that appears on your road to see details of what we’ll be doing in your road and when.
We will make sure emergency services are fully aware of the road closure and the planned diversion route. They will make sure their response teams are allocated from the quickest route. We will make sure vehicle access to properties located within the lane closure is maintained and will keep emergency services advised.
We look after the gas pipes in the south of England and across Scotland.
If you're not sure who manages the network of pipes that delivers your gas, use our postcode checker to find out if we deliver gas to your area
If we're not your supplier, the FindMySupplier website is able to let you know your gas transporter, your energy supplier and your MPRN.
The dates shown on the map are taken from the works permit we are granted which doesn’t always match the duration of the works required.
For example, the permit may be for one week but the work will only take three days to complete. This allows for flexibility and unforeseen circumstances.
There are many reasons why roadwork dates may be change and sometimes these are things that are outside of our control.
We appreciate it is frustrating when this happens and we will do what we can to minimise impact on you.
Our barriers must stay in place until it’s completely safe for us to remove them. Sometimes we’ll have barriers up, but our engineers won’t be there. This could be because we’re working on another section of the project, or we could have finished work and we’re waiting for the new road surface to set.