St Johns Junction Construction
St Johns Junction, Warwick Highway Improvements – construction started 13 October 2025
St Johns Junction overview and plan
The aim of the scheme is to:
- Improve connectivity and enhance the experience for pedestrians, cyclists and business users accessing the St Johns area and wider town centre, including provision of cycle parking.
- Improve the attractiveness of the location as a key gateway to the town, material enhancements outside the retail/commercial area while preserving as many parking bays as possible.
- Upgrade the existing traffic signal junction and provide essential maintenance to the carriageway on all arms, particularly to Coventry Rd and St Johns.
View a copy of the approved plan (PDF, 3.5 MB)
Key programme information
Works commenced on 13 October 2025 and will now continue until the end of May 2026.
As you will have seen, progress to complete the work has advanced along the footway in front of the shops within the service road, between Castle Balti and Coffee Junction and on the footway along Priory Road.
Delay to St John's programme
There have been various challenges encountered during the works including the exceptionally high levels of rainfall in January which caused problems with the laying and setting of slabs, issues with the availability of key materials, issues surrounding drainage, as well as the need to delay some works activities at various stages to accommodate public and business needs, all of which are important considerations with a scheme such as this. Whilst we have updated you by letter and in person throughout the programme on progress and next steps, we haven’t been able to give an overall update on works duration until now.
Several factors have led to a re-evaluation of the programme timelines to cover the remaining works which include:
- Works to the central area including the reconfiguration of parking spaces.
- Works in front of Happy Puccia Café likely to commence from 16 March
- Signaling works on the main junction.
- Resurfacing to the whole junction.
This work will now need to continue until May 2026 with resurfacing works happening towards the end of the programme.
Impact on parking spaces
During works to reconfigure the parking spaces there will be a four day period when a large proportion of the original spaces will be unavailable to use. We are aiming to keep five of the original spaces available, in addition we will add a further tnree temporary parallel parking spaces along the service road, whilst maintaining sufficient space for vehicles to pass. The work will take place between a Monday and a Thursday to reduce weekend impact and we will update you on this in the coming weeks.
- Full details will be available and regularly updated on these pages.
- The works is being managed by the county council’s principal Highways Contractor Balfour Beatty Living Places. If you have any queries or concerns over the works being carried out at the site, please contact Balfour Beatty Living Places on 03452 415302.
- For any questions or to share feedback on the scheme please either email the Warwick Town Centre team at warwicktc@warwickshire.gov.uk or contact me by telephone on 01926 742138.