Badger-damaged road in Mablethorpe fixed in time to avoid seven-month closure

A road that had to be closed because of Badger damage has been reopened five days ahead of schedule.

Seaholme Road in Mablethorpe was collapsing because of animal tunnels that had been made under both the road and the footpath.

Badgers had dug up to 1.5m deep which meant a lot of essential substrates under the road surface had gone, and the road started to fail.

Lincolnshire County Council’s expert crew had to get on with the works under an extremely tight schedule from Natural England, once the specialist ‘badger-handling’ license had been granted.

Because of the badger breeding season which runs from the start of December until the end of June, all works on filling in the tunnels, and repairing the damage to the collapsing road, had to be completed by the end of November.

If the work wasn’t finished by the end of the month, then Seaholme Road would have had to remain closed until next July.