WORK to replace the crumbling road surface of a busy Southend Road will start at 9am Tuesday June 1.

Resurfacing work on Whitehouse Road is expected to make the road surface stronger and smoother when the work ends a week later.

Access for residents and through traffic will be maintained by Stop and Go manually-operated boards or temporary traffic lights.

Councillor Mark Flewitt is responsible fro transport and planning at Southend Council.

He said: “This work will benefit the residents of Whitehouse Road because the new surface will be so much smoother and noise pollution from passing traffic will be greatly reduced as a result.”