Basingstoke Roadworks This Week: M3 J5-J6 and Whitchurch

The M3 into Basingstoke from the London side shuts at night this week. National Highways lists the M3 southbound closed between junction 5 and junction 6 from 21:00 to 06:00 on the nights of Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 November, for resurfacing. Junction 6 at Black Dam is the town’s main motorway access, so anyone driving home from London late on those nights needs another way in. National Highways’ report gives no diversion.

Last weekend’s closures were due to end by Monday morning: the M3 junction 8 to 9 closure in both directions was scheduled to finish at 06:00 on Monday 9 November, and South Western Railway’s works around Woking and Basingstoke were for Sunday 8 November only. On the M3 this week, National Highways also lists the southbound junction 9 exit slip closed 21:00 to 06:00 every night from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November. Still listed when we last checked, on 7 November:

• Whitchurch, about 12 miles west: the B3400 through the town centre is still closed northbound for SGN gas main work, with an estimated end of 30 November.

The motorway lines above were rechecked on Monday 9 November 2026 against the National Highways closure report for 6 to 12 November; everything below was checked on Saturday 7 November against that report, the Public Notice Portal, South Western Railway’s works pages, SGN’s project pages and the borough council’s road closures page. Hampshire’s own notices site refused our requests again on 7 November, so anything only it carries is marked as last read on 30 October and could not be confirmed this week. Hampshire County Council is the highways authority here, not the borough. The borough only handles closures for events.

The motorway and trunk roads this week

National Highways’ current report covers Friday 6 to Thursday 12 November and was last updated at 16:43 on Friday 6 November, and was still the live report on Monday 9 November. For Basingstoke drivers, from Monday it says:

• Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November, 21:00 to 06:00 each night: M3 southbound junction 9 exit slip, part of the junction 9 scheme. On the Monday night the A34 southbound from Three Maids Hill to junction 9 is also shut.
• Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 November, 21:00 to 06:00: M3 southbound, junction 5 to junction 6, listed under resurfacing from junction 4 to junction 6. On the Tuesday night the M3 southbound link to the M27 eastbound is shut as well.
• Thursday 12 November, 21:00 to 06:00: A34 southbound Highclere exit slip, in the far north of the borough.
• The M3 northbound entry slip at junction 9 stays shut. It has been closed since 3 August 2026 and is listed as closed until 1 November 2027 for the M3 and A34 improvement scheme.

No row names junction 7 at any point in the report, and junction 6 appears only as the end of the junction 5 to 6 closures. National Highways updates this report on a rolling seven days, so nights after Thursday 12 November are not yet listed.

What is closed now

Mortimer West End: Ramptons Lane to 27 November. The Clancy Group is installing extra-high-voltage cable in the far north of the borough, on the Berkshire boundary about nine miles north-east of the town. The order runs 24 hours a day. Ramptons Lane, between Chapel Lane and Reading Road, is listed as closed from 19 October to Friday 27 November, signed via Welshmans Road and Baughurst Road (notice). The portal marks the notice as expired, which is its advertising window ending, not the works.

Sullivan Road and Britten Road: temporary lights to 13 November. SGN’s project page lists multiway lights on Sullivan Road by Borodin Close and on Britten Road at the Sullivan Road junction until Friday 13 November. The wider gas work also covers Elgar Close, Grainger Close, Handel Close and nearby footpaths, and is due to run until December 2026. The page carries no update stamp.

A30 Winchester Road, Kempshott: a 30mph limit until Christmas, as last read on 30 October. Hampshire imposed a temporary 30mph restriction between the Greenkeepers Avenue junction and a point 300 metres south of Hounsome Drive, 24 hours a day from 17 August until 25 December 2026, with one lane of the dual carriageway also closed overnight, 20:00 to 06:00, in both directions between Hounsome Drive and Greenkeepers Avenue. The contractor is Hope & Clay (notice 22727). We could not reread the notice on 5 or 7 November. Its lane-closure window never made sense as published (“between Monday 12th October 2026 until Monday 26th August 2026”), so treat the overnight work as possible on any night while the order stands. The signed alternative is A30 Winchester Road, Winchester Bypass, Spitfire Link, A31, A339, Hackwood Road, Ringway South, Winchester Road.

The one that should have reopened

B3400 Worting Road, eastbound. Closed from 20 July between West Ham Lane and the Worting Road roundabout for I&G Contractors to work on the gas main. The county expected this to need no longer than six weeks. If it is still shut, it is now in its sixteenth week (notice 22317).

We still cannot confirm either way, and we want to be straight about that. The order runs to 20 January whatever the work takes. Hampshire’s site refused us on 5 and 7 November, so the notice was last read on 30 October, when it was unchanged. We found no reopening notice or report on 7 November, and SGN’s list of major projects does not name the road. The live roadworks map at one.network asks for a sign-in. So check before you set out. The signed diversion while the closure stands is B3400, A340, A339, B3051, B3400.

Roads on open-ended orders

Hampshire has also made several 18-month orders that cover many roads at once and give no working dates, only that “closure times and patterns will be indicated on site”. In and around the town they include Worting Road between Roman Way and Chiltern Way, Oakridge Road between the Aldermaston Road roundabout and Wateredge Road, Lister Road and Hill View Road off the A30, Chineham Lane between Trinidad Close and Speckled Wood Road, Cobbett Green, and a temporary 30mph limit on the A30 between the Winchester Road and Brighton Hill roundabouts (notice, notice). Treat these as “could be dug up any week”, not as closures in place today. Look for the yellow signs.

Newer batches work the same way. One runs from 12 October and covers Inkpen Gardens in Old Basing, Crestland Close, Deans Lane and Old Chapel Lane near Ramsdell and Monk Sherborne, Ramsdell Road and Lye Farm Road at St Mary Bourne (notice).

Another, now made, runs from 26 October and covers Black Dam Way between Old Common Road and Black Dam Way (signed via Ringway South and the Hackwood roundabout), Castle Road, Lennon Way, Corelli Road, Delibes Road, Neville Close, Bramley Lane in Bramley, Test Road in Whitchurch, Browninghill at Baughurst, Harrow Way at Deane, and Burley Lane, Southley Farm Road and Polhampton Farm Road at Overton. It also allows temporary no waiting on a short stretch of Hereford Road south of Winklebury Way (notice).

A third, now made (the made order was published on 5 November), runs from 2 November. It covers Winchester Road in Basingstoke between the Winchester Road roundabout and Portacre Rise (signed via Winchester Road, Western Way and Worting Road), the Bishopswood shops service road in Tadley (access via the Halstead House access road), and College Lane, Ellisfield, between Bushywarren Lane and Berrydown Lane (signed via Bushywarren Lane, the A339 Alton Road, Bagmore Lane and Bell Lane) (made order).

A fourth, which Hampshire still says on 7 November that it “intends to make”, starts from Monday 9 November and in this borough names Nutley Bottom Lane, Overton, between Kingsdown Lane and Kingsclere Road, signed via Kingsclere Road, London Road, Station Road, Station Hill and Kingsdown Lane (notice).

A fifth, published on 5 November and also at the “intends to make” stage, starts from Monday 16 November. In this borough it names Holly Drive in Old Basing and Lychpit; Cole Henley Link Road (Newbury Road to Cole Henley Road), Harroway (Bloswood Lane to the A34) and Larks Barrow Hill at Whitchurch; Finkley Road at St Mary Bourne, between Roman Road and Middle Wyke Lane; Yeomans Lane at Burghclere; and Ecchinswell Road, Knightsbridge Lane and Jonathan Hill at Ecchinswell (notice). The Larks Barrow Hill entry gives the same junction at both ends, so its extent cannot be read from the notice. That matters because Larks Barrow Hill is on one of the signed diversions for the Whitchurch town centre closure.

Live now and coming in the next fortnight

The first three of these were read on 7 November. The last one comes only from Hampshire’s own site, which refused us that day, so it is as last read on 30 October and could not be confirmed.

• Laundry Yard footpath, Whitchurch, between Newbury Street and a point opposite number 3, from Monday 9 November for up to three days, 08:00 to 17:00, with an estimated end of 12 November, for SGN’s gas main replacement. The notice files it under Laverstoke and is still at the “intends to make” stage. Walk via Bell Yard, Bell Street and Newbury Street (notice).
• The small parking area next to The Anvil, 9 to 16 November, for essential repairs, with no access for parking, deliveries, drop-offs or collections (council car parks page).
• Sullivan Road and Britten Road lights come off on Friday 13 November, if SGN’s dates hold (see above).
• Westridge, Highclere, the first 85 metres or so from Andover Road, from 2 November for up to nine days, 08:00 to 16:00, for Berkshire Asphalt reinstatement work, so to around 10 November (notice 23380).

The big one: Whitchurch town centre, since Monday 19 October. Whitchurch is in this borough, about 12 miles west of Basingstoke. SGN is replacing gas mains, and Hampshire has made a northbound closure of the B3400 Market Place and Newbury Street, between Bell Street and Laundry Yard, 24 hours a day. The county expects it to need no longer than six weeks, which points to around the end of November. We reread the portal’s version of the order on 7 November, and it still gives an estimated end of 30 November (notice). Two signed routes are given:

• B3400, B3048, A303, A30, A340, B3400
• Winchester Street, A34, A30, A34, the bridge over the Whitchurch bypass, Newbury Road, Larks Barrow Hill, Newbury Road, Newbury Street

The notice names only the northbound direction, so southbound traffic through the centre should still flow. SGN says it will keep access to premises along the road.

Trains: the weekends to plan for

South Western Railway’s November works page names these at this station or on lines through it, read on 7 November.

Sunday 15 November: the Wimbledon area closes. Waterloo to Basingstoke stopping trains start from Woking and run hourly, some Exeter trains and the late afternoon and evening Salisbury stopping trains start from Basingstoke.

Monday 23 to Thursday 26 November: work in the Winchester area means some late evening trains are cancelled or replaced by buses.

Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November: the Eastleigh area closes. On the Sunday a revised service runs between Waterloo and Basingstoke, and buses run from Basingstoke to Southampton Central via Eastleigh, and to Fareham and Eastleigh.

SWR’s December works page names nothing at Basingstoke between 1 and 21 December, though some late Saturday and early Sunday trains on the Salisbury line are cancelled or replaced by buses on 19 and 20 December. These pages can change, so confirm before you buy.

Parking proposals and new orders

Closed to comment on Friday 6 November 2026: Hampshire proposed No Waiting at Any Time on about 40 metres of the north-west side of Danebury Road near Inglewood Drive, replacing a Monday to Friday peak-hour restriction; removing the peak-hour restriction on both sides of Inglewood Drive for about 16 metres from Danebury Road; and adding No Waiting at Any Time on 26 metres of the north side of Centurion Way near Petworth Close. Objections, with grounds, went to Hampshire County Council at The Castle, Winchester, or public.notices@hants.gov.uk (notice).

Two earlier town-centre proposals took written objections until Friday 25 September 2026. One is now in force.

• Haymarket Yard: in force since Friday 30 October. Two permit-holder-only bays with a 30-minute maximum stay, each 2.4 metres wide and 5.5 metres long, behind 14 to 16 Wote Street. Hampshire made the order on 13 October (order notice).
• Flaxfield Road: awaiting a decision when last read on 30 October. A rearrangement of the restrictions near the Mortimer Lane junction and at Harrison Place. Four existing restrictions go and four replace them, shifting the resident permit bay and switching the limited-waiting bays from Monday to Saturday to Monday to Friday. Reference A2166/KK (notice 22910).

The draft orders and plans were available to inspect at Basingstoke Discovery Centre in Festival Place and at the Civic Offices on London Road.

School parking restrictions: two in force, three closed to comment

A permanent traffic order around Kempshott Infant School came into force on Saturday 29 August 2026, so it applied from the first week of term. Hampshire made the order on 18 August (notice 22833). It brings in:

• No Waiting at Any Time on parts of Gershwin Road, Ellington Drive and Buckingham Parade.
• No Loading, Monday to Friday, 8am to 9am and 3.15pm to 4.15pm on Old Down Close, on both sides outside number 25.
• No Stopping except Buses, Monday to Friday, 9am to 3.30pm on two stretches of the western side of Homesteads Road.

Bishopswood Schools, Tadley: in force since Saturday 31 October. Hampshire made this order on 13 October. It removes the disabled badge holders’ bay outside 25 to 28 Maple Grove and brings in No Waiting at Any Time on two short stretches of Barlows Road either side of the schools’ access, and on 26 metres of Elmhurst (notice).

The three further permanent parking orders advertised on 4 August reached the end of their notice period on Monday 15 September, so the window to object has now closed and they await a decision. They cover Winklebury Way and Shetland Road, where the school entrance markings outside Castle Hill Primary and Marnel Community Junior are being extended; Stephenson Road, where No Waiting Monday to Saturday becomes No Waiting at Any Time; and The Green, Tadley, which gains a No Waiting at Any Time restriction.

The 40mph limits that are now 30

This one has not been signed as roadworks and it is easy to miss. Hampshire revoked the 40mph orders on Roman Way and Roman Road, which restores Restricted Road status and means a 30mph limit between the B3400 Worting Road junction and the A339 Kingsclere Road junction. The order was made on 7 July and came into force on Saturday 18 July 2026 (notice 22325, reference C889/MJB). It replaces orders dating back to 1972 and 2002.

What it means for you

If you are coming home down the M3 from London late on Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11 or Thursday 12 November, the motorway is shut southbound from junction 5 to junction 6 from 21:00 to 06:00, so you cannot reach junction 6 at Black Dam on the motorway. National Highways gives no diversion in its report, so check the closure report before you set off and allow extra time.

If you are going south on the M3 to Winchester, Eastleigh or Southampton late at night, the southbound junction 9 exit slip is shut 21:00 to 06:00 every night from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November.

If you travel to or through Whitchurch, Market Place and Newbury Street are closed northbound, with an estimated end of 30 November.

If you live near Mortimer West End, Ramptons Lane stays shut until 27 November.

If you drive the A30 through Kempshott, the 30mph limit was listed until Christmas when we last read the notice on 30 October. It is a speed limit, not a closure.

If you drive Worting Road, do not assume it has reopened and do not assume it has not. Nobody publishes the answer, and we could not reread the notice this week.

If you use the trains, Sunday 15 November has Waterloo to Basingstoke stopping trains starting from Woking.

If you park behind Wote Street, the two Haymarket Yard bays are permit-only, 30 minutes maximum.

And if you drive Roman Way or Roman Road, the limit is now 30, not 40.

Gone since our last check on 5 November:

• the M3 night closures of 5 November, northbound from junction 10 to junction 8 and southbound from junction 8 to junction 9, and the A303 eastbound Longparish slips on 6 November, none of which appear in the report for 7 November onwards
• the Diwali Parade closures in the town centre on 6 November
• Down Street, Dummer, closed for one day on 5 November
• Gore End Road, East Woodhay, whose order expected the work to take up to 12 days from 26 October, so to around 6 November. Hampshire’s site refused us on 7 November and no reopening notice is published, so we cannot prove it has reopened.
• the consultation on Danebury Road, Inglewood Drive and Centurion Way, which closed on 6 November

Town centre closures already booked

The borough council, not the county, handles event closures. One is still to come on the council’s page, checked on 9 November:

• Friday 20 November, 8am to midnight: Winchester Street, Market Place, Church Street, Cross Street, London Street and Wote Street, for the Christmas light switch-on.

Access is maintained for residents of those roads in each case. The notices and sealed orders are on the council’s roadworks and road closures page.

Out in the villages

The borough has a long tail of rural closures running at any one time. On top of the ones listed above, orders were on the county register when we last read it in full, on 9 October, for Ecchinswell Road, Dummer Road at Axford, Tunworth Road at Mapledurwell and Up Nately, Hackwood Lane and Down Farm Lane at Tunworth, Glebe Close at Dummer, Oakley Lane, Stoke Hill, Stoke Lane, Baptist Hill and Gangbridge Lane at St Mary Bourne, Broad Lane at Newtown, Sydmonton Road at Burghclere, Cole Henley Road near Whitchurch, Crux Easton Lane at Ashmansworth, Ashe Park Lane at Steventon, Frog Lane at Pamber, Cufaude Lane at Bramley, Salters Heath Road at Monk Sherborne, New Road at Tadley, Wolverton Townsend and Baughurst Road at Baughurst, Abbey Wells Road at East Woodhay and Berrywood Lane at Wield and Bradley. Most are one to five days of work, often daytime only.

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. Filter the list to Basingstoke and Deane and read the “duration of order” paragraph, not the start and end dates in the header, which are the notice’s advertising window rather than the works window.

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.

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

The council’s find a car park page still said on 7 November that the resurfacing “started in July and will finish in Autumn 2026”. It gives no end date, phases or capacity figure. The council’s own draft budget report for Cabinet on 10 November says something different: the works “are not expected to be completed until June 2027”. Earlier wording said the work ran from 20 July with the car park open throughout and capacity down by roughly 50% during each phase. We cannot confirm from the council’s pages whether that still applies, so allow for it. Anvil Arts told its audiences to use Festival Place instead. The council 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

• Hampshire County Council public notices for the legal closure notices, including the exact extent and the signed diversion.
• National Highways closure report for the M3, A34 and A303, a rolling seven days, updated daily.
• Public Notice Portal for the same Hampshire closure notices when the county’s own site will not load.
• SWR planned improvements for weekend rail work.
• one.network for the live map of who is digging where, which the borough council links to as the roadworks map for the area.
• The borough council’s own notices for event closures.

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