Marlborough Highways works in close partnership with Southend-on-Sea City Council to maintain and improve more than seven miles of coastline, and over 800 miles of highways, footways and cycleways.
Outside of our works, we invest in social value to create opportunities for residents, give back to the local community and adopt sustainable practices in line with the council’s environmental ambitions.
Works in Southend-on-Sea include:
- Street lighting improvements and maintenance
- Car park improvement schemes
- Civil engineering
- Footway improvements
- Carriageway resurfacing works and road markings
- Traffic Management
- Dropped kerbs
Contract Overview:
- Highway Maintenance Contract
- Contract Value: £10+ million per year
- Contract Dates: April 2026 – April 2033 (extendable by up to seven additional years)
Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea is situated in south-eastern Essex, lying on the north side of the Thames Estuary, 40 miles east of central London. Granted city status in 2022, the borough stretches from Leigh-on-Sea in the east to Shoeburyness in the west. Home to the longest pleasure pier in the world, the area has long been popular with tourists and in recent decades has become a centre for commerce and retail. The city is well connected to south Essex and London, with the busy A127 and A13 roads complimenting the borough’s nine train stations across two National Rail lines. Arriva Southend and First Essex Buses serve the city’s 183,000 residents with an extensive bus network, while more than two million passengers fly from London Southend Airport each year, with a growing number of low-cost flights available to destinations across Europe.
More from Southend-on-Sea
Keeping Southend moving with routine gully cleansing
Stabilising roadside cliffs at Belton Way East
Improving accessibility with the construction of Chalkwell Beach Boardwalk
“One of the things I value most is their very collaborative and transparent team culture. It makes a big difference to have a contractor that wants to work closely with us and is supportive and responsive. With Marlborough, I get a team who are attentive, work collaboratively and honestly with me and don’t lose focus on delivering first class communications and compliance.”
“From the design stage, Marlborough has been fundamental in delivering the Broad Lane Square improvements scheme. During the works, not only did the team manage to keep to the programme, but they went the extra mile to ensure attention to detail and came up with innovative solutions to address issues encountered on site. My thanks on behalf of Haringey goes out to Marlborough for their dedication to deliver.”
“Working alongside our Term Service Contractor Marlborough Highways, we successfully completed renovations to the Crowstone Footbridge. The designs were provided by Marlborough, and the work was unique. The scheme was completed to budget and ahead of its programme duration.”
“I would like to thank you and your team for your efforts, the Marlborough crews were professional, courteous, and hard working all day and ensured the event went without a hitch. You and the team were a credit to the company, demonstrating commitment and support to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.”
“I just wanted to say what a pleasure it has been to work with Marlborough Highways over the last six months. The quality of work is superb, and there has been some excellent collaboration between Milestone and Marlborough to complete, what at times, has been quite a challenging scheme. I hope to work with Marlborough on another project in the near future.”
“Marlborough worked with us in constructing a 1.3km cycle track. There were a number of technical difficulties to overcome, and their gifted foreman worked to propose some innovative solutions to the challenges we faced. The result is a facility that the locals are proud of, providing walkers and cyclists with alternative access to the hospital and nearby school. The scheme was a lot of hard work, but well worth it.”
“Marlborough attracts people who take care and have pride in their work. Several gangs of Operatives worked tirelessly for six months to reconstruct drainage networks, lay more than 3km of high quality bespoke granite kerbs and granite channels blocks to ensure positive drainage. The technical compliance, attention to detail and level of quality finish along the entire carriageway was exceptional”.
“We saw huge benefits in appointing Marlborough as our full service contractor and we’re impressed – they’ve delivered consistent high quality service and superior quality control across every project. Marlborough, provide us with a ‘one-stop’ shop solution – we get the same quality of service and better control across all aspects of the project.”
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