TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Aim

Our aim is to manage the delivery of the Scheme’s construction works with minimal impact on traffic, pedestrians, households and businesses within the town.

However, the Hawick Flood Protection Scheme is, by any standards, a major construction project and it is inevitable that it will involve some disruption to traffic and pedestrians.  We are committed to keeping road and footpath users up-to-date with the latest information on road works.

Extensive signage will be placed around the town to help drivers identify any diversions that are in place.

Decisions on the most effective way to manage traffic during the construction works have been achieved in partnership with the statutory traffic authorities (Scottish Borders Council, Transport Scotland and emergency services) and with local community traffic management working groups.

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS

There are a number of ways you can keep in touch with the latest traffic management news.

This website and our social media channels are the “go-to” destinations for the latest traffic management information coming from the project.

Our quarterly newsletter also contains information on upcoming road and traffic issues.

As appropriate, public notices and letter drops to households and businesses in impacted areas will be employed.

Notices in the local press and media will also feature, so keep an eye out for these as well.

Any issues relating to the A7 trunk route (which includes Commercial Road) will also be displayed on Traffic Scotland’s website.

Current Traffic Information

Road Repair Programme Post Construction: Summer 2025

With the Scheme on programme to complete construction at the end of June 2025, we are pleased to announce the post-construction road repair programme for this summer from July through to August:

Phase One: Hamilton Road

Works will commence from Monday 7th July 2025 at Hamilton Road for six days. It will include the westbound carriageway passed Burnfoot Industrial Estate leading up to the junction with Burnfoot Road.

Phase Two: Mansfield Crescent, Mansfield Gardens, Mansfield Park, and Eastfield Road

Various sections of carriageway repairs at Mansfield Crescent, Mansfield Gardens, Mansfield Park, and Eastfield Road will be carried out for seven days from Monday 21st July 2025.

Phase Three: Weensland Industrial Estate, Trinity Street, and Noble Place

Sections of Trinity Street including the approach to the junction with Weensland Road, the junction with Earl Street, and a short stretch of the carriageway at the junction with Noble Place, will be resurfaced from Monday 4th August for the duration of five days. This works also includes the entire road network within the Weensland Industrial Estate and Noble Place. 

Phase Four: North Bridge Street, Croft Road, and Round Close

Resurfacing works will be carried out for five days from Monday 11th August 2025 along North Bridge Street at the Dovecot Street junction, parts of the westbound carriageway on Croft Road, a section of Teviot Crescent, and the full width of Round Close on approach to the carpark.

Phase Five: Burnfoot Road

Sections of Burnfoot Road from the A7 Wilton Hill junction to Hamilton Road will be undertaken from Monday 18th August for seven days.

Phase Six: Victoria Road, Albert Road, and Princes Street

From Wednesday 27th August, there will be three days road resurfacing works carried out. This will be undertaken at Victoria Road from Wilton Park Road to Albert Road at the junction with Albert Road, Northbound at Albert Road from the A7 junction to Wilton Path, Prince Street from Wilton Path to the A7 junction, at the Langlands Road junction, carriageway, and Bellmouth junction. 

Pedestrian Diversions

There are currently no impacts on pedestrian routes due to Scheme works.