B3400 Worting Road is closed eastbound for gas mains and half of The Malls car park is out to the end of October. Every current Basingstoke closure, with dates and diversions.

Two things are worth knowing before you drive into Basingstoke this month. The B3400 Worting Road is closed eastbound between West Ham Lane and the Worting Road roundabout, 24 hours a day, for gas main works expected to run up to six weeks from 20 July. And half of The Malls car park is out of use until the end of October while it is resurfaced, which matters most if you were heading for The Anvil or the Top of Town.

Everything below was checked on 9 August 2026 against Hampshire County Council’s public notices, which is where the borough’s temporary traffic orders are published, and against the borough council’s own car park pages. Hampshire County Council is the highways authority here, not the borough; the borough only handles closures for events. Roadworks move. The sections further down on the Ringway, parking and station access do not.

What is closed now

B3400 Worting Road, eastbound. From 20 July 2026, expected to last no longer than six weeks, in operation 24 hours a day. The closure runs from the junction with West Ham Lane to the Worting Road roundabout. Signed diversion: B3400, A340, A339, B3051, B3400. The contractor is I&G Contractors, working on the gas main. This is the main western approach into town from Worting and Oakley, so the diversion pushes traffic all the way round to Ringway West.

Lancaster Road and the Kingsclere Road service road. From 17 August 2026, expected to last up to seven weeks, 24 hours a day. Lancaster Road closes between the Kingsclere Road service road and Merton Road; the service road closes between Kingfisher Court and Kingsclere Road. Alternative routes are Merton Road and Kingsclere Road in both directions. Connect It Utility Services is upgrading the electricity network.

Maple Grove. From 13 August 2026 for up to four days, full time, between points opposite numbers 18 and 15. There is no diversion, access only. M Group Water and Thames Water.

Jays Close, Houndmills. 10 August 2026, one day, 08:00 to 17:00, between The Laurels and The Laurels car park entrance. Connect It Utility Services.

Ringway East, northbound. The order runs from 20 July for six months, but the works themselves were expected to need no more than five nights, 19:30 to 06:00, between Churchill Way and Ringway East, for South East Water. If they reappear, the signed diversion is A3010 Churchill Way East, A339 Ringway East, A30 Ringway South.

Basingstoke road and car park closures, July to October 2026 Timeline of Basingstoke closures. The Malls car park resurfacing runs 20 July to the end of October. B3400 Worting Road eastbound runs from 20 July for about six weeks to the end of August. Lancaster Road and the Kingsclere Road service road run from 17 August for about seven weeks to early October. Maple Grove is closed for four days from 13 August. Jays Close is closed for one day on 10 August. What is shut, and for how long Expected working windows, not the six-month legal duration of each order. Source: Hampshire County Council and the borough council. 1 Aug 1 Sep 1 Oct 9 Aug The Malls car park (half out) B3400 Worting Road eastbound Lancaster Rd & Kingsclere Rd svc Maple Grove Jays Close Each traffic order legally lasts six months. The bars show how long the contractor said the work would actually take, which is the useful number.
Read the expected duration, not the order length. Every Hampshire closure notice grants six months and most of them use a fortnight of it.

Out in the villages

The borough has a long tail of rural closures running at any one time, and in August 2026 that includes New Road in Tadley (from 30 July, up to seven days, between Shaw Lane and Church Brook, diverting via Shaw Lane, Baughurst Road, Heath End Road and the A340), Kempshott Lane between Kestrel Road and Fuzzy Drove as a rolling closure for a Thames Water foul sewer, and orders in place at Ecchinswell, Silchester, Bramley, Axford, Mapledurwell, St Mary Bourne and Monk Sherborne.

If you live in one of the villages, the honest advice is to search the county’s notices for your own road rather than rely on a page like this one, because the rural orders turn over every fortnight.

The routes that carry the town

Basingstoke traffic is shaped by one thing: the Ringway, the ring road that surrounds the centre in four named sections. Ringway North and Ringway East are the A339, Ringway South is the A30 and Ringway West is the A340. Almost every cross-town journey uses part of it, which is why a single overnight closure on one section reroutes the whole town rather than one street.

Off the ring, six radial roads do the work:

  • M3 junction 6 at Black Dam, the town’s main motorway access, on the south-east corner.
  • M3 junction 7 to the south-west, reached along the A30.
  • A33 north-east towards Chineham, Sherfield on Loddon and Reading.
  • A340 north towards Sherborne St John, Tadley and Aldermaston.
  • A339 north-west towards Kingsclere and Newbury, and south-east towards Alton.
  • B3400 west through Worting towards Oakley, Overton and Whitchurch. This is the one currently closed eastbound.

There is no park and ride in Basingstoke. The council’s own car park list has no such site, so every drive into the centre ends in a town-centre car park.

Parking in the centre

Charges apply 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in all the council’s long-stay town-centre car parks. The short-stay ones are free overnight from 7pm to 8am. Bank holidays are free in council car parks, with the exception of Good Friday.

Short stay (Albert Yard, Castons Yard, Feathers Yard, Jacobs Yard): the first hour is free if you take a ticket from the machine, which you cannot do through RingGo. After that it is £2.50 to two hours, £3.50 to three, £4.70 to four and £14.20 over four. Central car park and Joices Yard charge £1.40 for the first hour and then follow the same scale.

Long stay (Brinkletts, Castons, Churchill Way, Churchill Way East, Sarum Hill, Southern Road): £1.40 for an hour, £2.50 for two, £4.70 for four, £7.30 for six, £9.70 for eight and £11.80 over eight, with a flat £2.40 overnight.

The Malls (Alencon Link) is pay on foot with barriers, 510 public spaces, and it is the one being resurfaced. £1.90 for an hour rising to £11.30 all day, or £10.00 all day on the council’s decremental Park Card. After 6pm it is a flat £2.50, and you can validate your ticket on arrival to avoid the queue after a show at The Anvil or the Haymarket. Blue Badge holders who register in advance park free.

Festival Place has 3,000 spaces and 118 disabled bays, and is not run by the council.

The Malls car park resurfacing

From 20 July until the end of October 2026 the council is resurfacing The Malls car park in two phases. The car park stays open throughout, but capacity drops by roughly 50% during each phase. Anvil Arts is telling its audiences to use Festival Place instead. The council has published a colour-coded plan showing which sections close when.

One car park to watch beyond this autumn is Vyne Meadow on Vyne Road, which has 349 spaces at weekends and 25 pay-and-display bays on weekdays. The council agreed in July to look at redeveloping it for affordable housing, which is covered on the planning news page.

Getting out without the car

The station car parks hold 1,207 cars and charge £11.00 for a peak day, so for anyone commuting the arithmetic is worth doing properly; the tariff, the fastest London trains and the annual costs are on the trains to London page.

Where to check before you set off

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