Roads in Wimborne and Ferndown are amongst nine in Dorset which are being resurfaced ahead of the Tour of Britain coming to the county in September.

They are the B3082 Blandford Road outside QE School and Victoria Road, Ferndown with the others being Station Road, West Bay; Market Street, Abbotsbury; Bramdon Lane, Portesham; Worgret Road, Wareham; South Street, Wareham; Corfe Road, Stoborough; and B3082 Blandford Road (Tadden Bends).

The Stage 7 route through the Dorset Council area has been inspected by Dorset Highways engineers to ensure the roads are safe for competitors.

Two sites were surfaced in July with a further seven repaired this month, including the finishing stretch of the Stage 7 route being resurfaced to conclude the works – with Victoria Road in Ferndown closed overnight for seven nights from 18 August for this work to be completed.

Hanson will be using both low energy asphalt and low carbon bio binders at the finishing straight. They will also be using sustainably sourced hydrotreated vegetable oil to power the equipment to make and lay the asphalt.

Cllr Ray Bryan, portfolio holder for Highways, Travel and Environment, said: “Through our strategic partnership with Hanson, we are able to work closely together to minimise the impact of our construction activity on the environment.

“We are committed to embedding our climate and ecological emergency response work across all of our services, and our strong policy of recycling planings back into our roads as well as using low energy asphalt as standard throughout our resurfacing sites is a great example of this.”

Last month, Hanson Contracting announced it had become one of the official sponsors of Stage Seven of the Tour of Britain, taking place in Dorset.

Dorset will welcome the Tour of Britain for the first time in modern race history. The county will host the penultimate stage of the race on Saturday 10 September, as the eight-stage event works its way down from Aberdeenshire to the Isle of Wight.