St Johns Junction, Warwick Highway improvements
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, and between Castle Balti and Coffee Junction and on the footway along Priory Road. These works are now mostly complete.
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 in front of Happy Puccia Café have now commenced.
- Signaling works on the main junction from 7 April.
- Works to the central area including the reconfiguration of parking spaces: April.
- Resurfacing to the whole junction: May.
This work will now need to continue until May 2026 with resurfacing works happening towards the end of the programme.
Impact on parking spaces
In the last update we said that during works, to reconfigure the parking spaces there will be a 4-day period when a large proportion of the original spaces will be unavailable to use. We also said that we would keep 5 of the original parking spaces closest to the paddocks open, and in addition we would add a further 3 temporary parallel parking spaces along the service road, whilst maintaining sufficient space for vehicles to pass.
This work is now scheduled to take place from Monday 30 March and will continue until Thursday 02 April after which these 5 parking spaces will be opened for use again as they are now and will remain so until phase 2 starts.
Phase 2 will start on Monday April 20 to complete the remainder of the parking space work which will last for two weeks.
Temporary signalisation of the whole junction
From Monday 7 April the current traffic signals on the junctions will be replaced with temporary traffic signals. These signals will still perform the same job however they may be slightly slower than the permanent signals. These will remain in place until the end of the scheme which will finish with the whole junction being resurfaced in May. From Monday 30 March you will start to see advance warning signs for the introduction of these temporary signals.
The image below shows the areas effected and the alternative routes that can be used while the temporary signals are in place (reccomended to download image or open in new tab).
- Full details will continue to 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.