Wendover Way is closed 24/7 to 29 August and Turnfurlong Lane to 12 August. The current council list, the link road opening this autumn, and the routes that carry the town.

Aylesbury has no motorway and one ring road, so a single closure moves traffic across the whole town. Two are running now: Wendover Way is shut around the clock until 29 August for footway reconstruction, and Turnfurlong Lane is closed for resurfacing from 10 to 12 August, immediately after a month-long closure at its Camborne Avenue junction.

Buckinghamshire Council updates its planned works list every Friday, and its roadworks map carries utility and emergency works as well. The list below is from the update published on Friday 7 August 2026, and covers only the Aylesbury Vale side of the county.

What is closed right now

Buckinghamshire Council planned roadworks affecting the Aylesbury area, from the update of 7 August 2026
WhereWhenWhat
Wendover Way, Aylesbury27 July to 29 AugustFootway reconstruction under a 24/7 road closure, work 7am to 7pm
Turnfurlong Lane and Camborne Avenue, Aylesbury13 July to 14 AugustNew raised crossing, cycleway extension and resurfacing. Turnfurlong Lane closed 24/7, multi-way signals on Camborne Avenue
Turnfurlong Lane, Aylesbury10 to 12 AugustPlane and patch resurfacing, road closure 7am to 7pm
Station Road, Stoke Mandeville10 to 14 AugustGround investigation. Full closure 7am to 7pm, two-way lights 7pm to 7am
Thame Road, Haddenham15 June to 22 AugustFootway reconstruction, multi-way signals 9am to 3pm Monday to Saturday
Chestnut Close and Baker Street, Waddesdon6 to 14 AugustCarriageway surfacing under a road closure, 7am to 7pm
Watermead, Aylesbury27 July to 14 August71 street lighting columns replaced on Ayleswater, Bullfinch Gardens, Curlew, Kestrel Way and Lark Vale
Main Road and Dunton Road, Dunton10 to 13 AugustCoring investigation, two-way lights and stop-and-go, 8am to 6pm
Lower Icknield Way, Thame Road and Longwick Road, Longwick13 to 14 AugustCoring investigation, four-way lights 9.30am to 3.30pm

A countywide street lighting programme also runs to 9 September, replacing 40 damaged columns in a list of places that includes Aylesbury, Buckingham, Calvert Green, Great Horwood and Princes Risborough. That one moves around and is unlikely to close anything.

Note what is not on the list: none of these are utility works. Water, gas and broadband digs are permitted separately and only show on the interactive map, so a street that looks clear here can still be dug up. You can set up alerts on One.Network for routes you use often, which is the only way to see everything in one place.

The routes that carry the town

Schematic map of the A-roads radiating from Aylesbury and the orbital link road A schematic diagram with Aylesbury at the centre. Seven A-roads radiate outward: the A413 north to Winslow and Buckingham, the A418 north-east to Leighton Buzzard, the A41 east to Aston Clinton, Tring and Hemel Hempstead, the A413 south-east to Wendover and Amersham, the A4010 south to Stoke Mandeville, Princes Risborough and High Wycombe, the A418 west to Thame and the M40, and the A41 north-west to Waddesdon and Bicester. An orbital link road runs around the south of the town: the eastern half, the South East Aylesbury Link Road and Stoke Mandeville Relief Road, completes in autumn 2026, and the western half, the South West Aylesbury Link Road, is not yet built. Seven A-roads, no motorway, and half an orbital Schematic. Distances and directions are indicative, not to scale. Aylesbury town centre A413 north Winslow, Buckingham A418 Leighton Buzzard A41 east Aston Clinton, Tring, Hemel A413 south Wendover, Amersham A4010 Stoke Mandeville, Princes Risborough, High Wycombe A418 west Thame, M40 A41 north-west Waddesdon, Bicester Orbital link road built or completing autumn 2026 (SEALR and Stoke Mandeville Relief Road) South West Aylesbury Link Road, safeguarded in the draft Local Plan but not yet built
Every route out of Aylesbury is a single A-road. That is why a closure on one of them, or on the ring road that joins them, backs up the others.

Practically, that means four things worth knowing before you set off.

East is the fast way out. The A41 toward Aston Clinton and Tring is dual carriageway and the town’s main strategic link. West on the A418 to Thame and the M40 is single carriageway most of the way.

The A413 does two jobs. It runs north from Aylesbury to Winslow and Buckingham and south to Wendover and Amersham, and both halves carry commuter traffic at the same time of day.

The A4010 south has changed shape. The Stoke Mandeville Relief Road realigned it, and the first section of the new link road opened alongside it in November 2025.

Buckingham looks north, not south. Its road traffic runs to Milton Keynes on the A421 rather than to Aylesbury, which is one reason the two halves of this district behave like separate places.

The link road that finishes this autumn

The South East Aylesbury Link Road (SEALR) is the biggest change to the road network here in years, and it is due to complete in autumn 2026.

It is 1.1 miles of dual carriageway joined by three roundabouts, forming part of what the council calls the Aylesbury Orbital Link Road. Phase 1 runs from the B4443 Lower Road to the A413 Wendover Road and includes a road bridge over the Aylesbury to Marylebone railway line, two new roundabouts and the undergrounding of the overhead electricity cables to the north of the route. Phase 2 adds about 500 metres of dual carriageway and a roundabout connecting the Stoke Mandeville Relief Road to a future South West Aylesbury Link Road.

The dates tell their own story: the project started in June 2016, main line construction began in February 2023, and the council confirms it has now secured all the funding and taken ownership of all the land. The first part opened in November 2025 together with the Stoke Mandeville Relief Road; the railway bridge is the stage still to finish.

Separately, Taylor Wimpey is rebuilding the A41 Woodlands roundabout at the junction of Aston Clinton Road, Aylesbury Road and the A41 dual carriageway. The existing roundabout is being demolished and replaced with a hamburger-style roundabout around three times larger, with Aston Clinton Road widened and a new Southern Link Road built through the Hampden Fields development. If you use the A41 east of town, this is the scheme that will affect you most over the next couple of years.

HS2 in the north of the county

HS2 Phase 1 runs about 60 kilometres through Buckinghamshire, and the heaviest construction in this district has been around Calvert, north-west of Aylesbury. The council is blunt about its own position: the HS2 Rail Act 2017 granted outline planning permission and gives the Secretary of State wide powers, approval “is not to be unreasonably withheld”, and if the council does not respond to an HS2 consent request within the set timescale, approval is deemed granted. In its own words, the council has “little or no power to change aspects of the scheme”.

The route to Manchester was cancelled in October 2023 and the eastern leg earlier than that, so the line now stops at Birmingham. The construction traffic through the north of the vale does not.

Checking before you travel

  • Buckinghamshire Council roadworks map for current and planned works, including utility company digs. Search by postcode and switch between current and planned.
  • One.Network to set alerts for a route you drive regularly, such as a commute or a school run.
  • FixMyStreet to report roadwork signs left behind after the work has finished, which the council asks residents to do.
  • The council’s planned works page is updated every Friday, and it warns that dates shift at short notice for weather and materials.

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