The M25 near Uxbridge shuts at night to Saturday and on 9 and 10 November. Thornton Avenue closes 9 to 13 November, with no tube on 21 and 22 November.

The M25 near Uxbridge is shut at night again this week and next. The anti-clockwise carriageway from junction 16 to junction 15, with its exit slip and link road, closes from 10pm tonight, Thursday 5 November, to 5.30am, then from 11pm on Friday 6 November to 6am on Saturday. Then, on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 November, the anti-clockwise stretch from junction 17 to junction 16 closes from 10pm to 5.30am.

On local roads, Thornton Avenue in West Drayton closes from Monday 9 to Friday 13 November for Affinity Water. In Uxbridge, St Margarets Avenue is closed until Friday 6 November for Cadent gas works. Manor Road in Hayes and Ash Grove in Harefield also reopen on Friday.

Further ahead, mark Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November: TfL lists no Piccadilly line service west of Hammersmith and no Metropolitan line service between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge, so no tube at all from Uxbridge that weekend. Saturday 21 November is also the town centre’s Christmas lights switch-on.

This Uxbridge roadworks page lists what is genuinely closed, with dates and sources. It then covers the things that outlast any one set of cones: where to check live works, what parking really costs in the town centre, and how the road network around Uxbridge fits together. The council, National Highways and TfL rail details below were checked on Thursday 5 November 2026.

Check today’s closures first

Hillingdon Council approves every set of roadworks in the borough and publishes a notice for each closure on its roadworks page. That page also links the live one.network map, which shows everything dug up right now: council, utility and emergency works alike.

For the motorways and the A40 west of Swakeleys, National Highways’ road closure report lists every full closure for the coming seven days. Those two sources will always beat a static page for today’s picture, including this one.

Closed on borough roads

From the council’s published closure notices, checked on 5 November 2026:

Road Closed Who
St Margarets Avenue, Uxbridge to Friday 6 November Cadent
Manor Road, Hayes to 6pm Friday 6 November Affinity Water
Ash Grove, Harefield to Friday 6 November Affinity Water
Thornton Avenue, West Drayton Monday 9 to Friday 13 November Affinity Water
Hartland Drive, Ruislip Wednesday 11 November BT
Linden Avenue, Ruislip Saturday 14 November Council
Rigby Lane, Hayes Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 November Clearview Services
New Peachey Lane, Cowley Monday 23 to Tuesday 24 November Thames Water
Berwick Avenue, Hayes Thursday 26 to Friday 27 November BT
Laburnum Avenue, West Drayton 8am Thursday 26 November to 6pm Thursday 17 December JSM
Service road at New Broadway, Uxbridge Road 8am Sunday 13 to 6pm Tuesday 15 December JSM

St Margarets Avenue is closed from its junction with Pield Heath Avenue to outside number 9, with a diversion via Pield Heath Avenue, Pield Heath Road and Micawber Avenue (notice).

Manor Road in Hayes is closed from its junction with Addison Way, from 8am on Monday 2 November to 6pm on Friday 6 November, with a diversion via Hesa Road and Rectory Road. Access to premises is kept where practicable (notice).

Laburnum Avenue closes between Kingston Avenue and Whitehorn Avenue for high-voltage cable work. The council’s list prints the end date as “Thursday 17 November”, but its notice says 17 December. The New Broadway closure runs from Parkfield Avenue to outside number 17, for the same kind of work, with a diversion via Denziloe Avenue, Charville Lane West and Parkfield Avenue (notice).

Moorhall Road in Harefield, shut for emergency bridge repairs to 5pm on Monday 2 November, is no longer on the council’s list, and nor are the Cadent jobs in Manor Way and Westholme Gardens, Ruislip. The council has published nothing to say the Moorhall Road repairs ran over, but it has not confirmed the reopening either; its emergency notice allowed the closure to stay in force until the works were complete.

In Harefield, highway works on New Years Green Lane began on Monday 5 October and are due to last about ten weeks, to improve road safety and traffic flow, with diversions and traffic management in place. The council says the Harefield tip on the same lane stays open throughout, but warns of delays (Hillingdon Council).

Behind the one-off digs, the council’s borough-wide carriageway resurfacing programme runs from 20 July to 20 January 2028 and is listed in two phases, PH1 and PH2, both under “various roads”. Short-notice evening and weekend resurfacing closures will therefore keep appearing on the notices page. Separately, Harvil Road is being realigned for HS2, which the council tracks on its HS2 page.

What it means for you: St Margarets Avenue, off Pield Heath Road, is the only street in Uxbridge itself closed this week, until Friday. Next week the digging moves to Thornton Avenue in West Drayton, from Monday 9 November.

Motorways: the nights to avoid

National Highways’ seven-day closure report, read on 5 November and running to the night of Tuesday 10 November, carries these closures near Uxbridge.

Night Closed Hours Work
Thursday 5 November M25 anti-clockwise, J16 to J15, with the exit slip and link road 10pm to 5.30am Resurfacing
Thursday 5 November A3113 westbound, A3044 to M25 J14 10pm to 5.30am Maintenance
Friday 6 November M25 anti-clockwise, J16 to J15, with the exit slip and link road 11pm to 6am Saturday Resurfacing
Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 November M25 anti-clockwise, J17 to J16 10pm to 5.30am Surfacing
Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 November M25 clockwise, J14 to J15 10pm to 5.30am Retexturing
Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 November M4 eastbound, J3 to J1 10pm to 5.30am Concrete works
Tuesday 10 November M40 northbound, exit and entry slips at J2 11pm to 6am Slip road closures

The report carries no closures on these stretches of the M25 on Saturday 7 or Sunday 8 November. It lists none on the A40 west of Swakeleys. It is reissued daily, so later nights are not yet listed.

What it means for you: tonight and Friday night you cannot head anti-clockwise on the M25 from junction 16, so a late airport run needs another route, such as the A408 through West Drayton. On Monday and Tuesday night the M25 is shut in the other direction towards Heathrow too, between junctions 14 and 15, and the M4 is shut eastbound from junction 3 to junction 1.

Tube and rail

TfL’s planned-works feed, checked on 5 November, shows no Piccadilly or Metropolitan line closures until 21 November. That one is big:

  • Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November: no Piccadilly line service between Hammersmith and Heathrow or Uxbridge from 1.30am on Saturday and all day Sunday, including the Night Tube, and no Metropolitan line service between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge. TfL says replacement buses will run, and advises the Elizabeth line between central London and Heathrow.

The Elizabeth line at West Drayton has three weekends of disruption this month:

  • Sunday 15 November: no service between West Drayton and Slough until 8am, with replacement bus W1 between Hayes and Harlington and Slough (not serving Iver). Until 10.15am there is also no service east of Paddington to Abbey Wood or Stratford, and a reduced service west of Paddington after that.
  • Sunday 22 November: no service between Paddington and Ealing Broadway until 7.40am. After that, two trains an hour serve West Drayton.
  • Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November: no service between Maidenhead or Heathrow and Abbey Wood or Shenfield, and Paddington station is closed. TfL advises using the Piccadilly line from Heathrow.

Times and fares are in our Uxbridge to London guide.

What it means for you: both tube lines from Uxbridge run normally until the weekend of 21 and 22 November, when neither does. For that weekend, the U1 bus to West Drayton for the Elizabeth line is the obvious way into London, but on the Sunday it is a reduced service.

On the A40 into London

Transport for London’s live register lists no current works on the Hillingdon stretch of the A40, which TfL manages from Swakeleys eastwards, and nothing on the A4 Bath Road near Heathrow or elsewhere in the borough.

Further in, the weekend closure of the westbound Westway has finished, but the westbound Westway stays down to two lanes between Edgware Road and the Northern Roundabout until 5 December. In central London, Oxford Street is closed to traffic between Portman Street and Portland Street for pedestrianisation, which TfL lists until 31 December. Check the A40 corridor status before relying on it either way.

The A4020 runs for miles under the name Uxbridge Road, through Southall, Hanwell and Ealing, so check the borough before assuming a “Uxbridge Road” closure is local.

The key routes, for orientation

Schematic of the main roads around Uxbridge Map-style diagram. The M25 runs north to south on the west side, meeting the M40 at junction 16 near Denham. The M40 becomes the A40 Western Avenue running east toward London, passing north of Uxbridge at Swakeleys and Hillingdon Circus. The A4020 Uxbridge Road runs east from Uxbridge town centre toward Hayes End and Ealing. The A412 runs north from Uxbridge toward Denham and Watford. The A408 runs south toward West Drayton and the M4 at Heathrow. How the roads fit together Schematic, not to scale. Motorways dark, A-roads mid blue. M25 M40 A40 to London J16 / J1A Denham roundabout (M40 J1) Swakeleys / Hillingdon Circus A412 Uxbridge A4020 Uxbridge Road to Hayes End & Ealing A408 to West Drayton & M4 J15 (M4, Heathrow)
Uxbridge sits in the angle between the M25, the M40/A40 and the A4020, with the M25's J15 and J16 both within a few minutes of town. Graphic by Uxbridge News.

The geography explains the traffic. The M40 begins at junction 1, the Denham roundabout, just across the county line, where it meets the A40, A412 and A4020. Half a mile on, junction 1A is the M25 at its junction 16 (M40 junction layout).

Eastbound, the A40 Western Avenue is a Transport for London road corridor, live status here. It passes north of the town at Swakeleys and Hillingdon Circus. Everything else, including the A4020 through the town centre, is Hillingdon’s, and is notified on the council roadworks page.

What a day’s parking actually costs

The big town-centre option is The Chimes shopping centre car park: over 1,550 spaces, cash-free with number-plate recognition. Level 1 is open around the clock and levels 2 to 6 run 6am to 1am.

Current tariffs, Monday to Saturday: 2 hours £2.60, 3 hours £3.65, 4 hours £4.70, 5 hours £5.70, 6 hours £6.75, 8 hours £9.35, 10 hours £11.95, 24 hours £26. Evenings, arriving after 6pm and leaving by 1am, cost £2.10. Sundays are £3.00 for up to 5 hours, then the weekday rates above that. Blue Badge holders get up to 6 hours free, with standard rates after that (The Chimes parking, rechecked 20 September 2026).

On-street, town-centre pay and display runs 80p per 15 minutes for Hillingdon residents and £1.40 per 15 minutes for everyone else, with a 2-hour maximum stay. It is generally enforced 8am to 6:30pm Monday to Saturday, and is free outside those hours, on Sundays and on bank holidays (Hillingdon street parking charges).

What it means for you: The Chimes beats the street at almost any duration. Two hours costs £2.60 there against £11.20 at the non-resident street rate, and the street’s two-hour cap rules out a working day anyway.

Buses, and the station

Uxbridge station is the hub. Routes 222, 331, 427, A10, U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U7, U9 and U10 all serve it. Three are worth knowing even if you never ride the rest:

  • A10: direct to Heathrow Central bus station (TfL)
  • Superloop SL8: the Uxbridge Road corridor to Ealing and White City (TfL)
  • U1: Ruislip, Uxbridge High Street and West Drayton station (TfL), the easy way to reach the Elizabeth line

Tube times, fares and station parking are covered in our Uxbridge to London guide.

Heathrow, the long-term one

The biggest roadworks story in Hillingdon’s future is not scheduled yet. Heathrow’s third-runway proposals include diverting the M25 into a new tunnel built 130 metres west of the current motorway, with new link roads separating through-traffic from M4 movements. The plans went to government in summer 2025 and no construction date has been set (Heathrow). Where the wider expansion process stands is tracked on our Uxbridge planning news page.

Frequently asked questions

What roadworks are happening in Uxbridge right now?

In Uxbridge itself, St Margarets Avenue is closed until Friday 6 November. Manor Road in Hayes and Ash Grove in Harefield are also shut until Friday. Thornton Avenue in West Drayton closes from Monday 9 to Friday 13 November, and New Years Green Lane in Harefield is under traffic management. The council’s roadworks page carries the live list.

Is Moorhall Road closed?

It is no longer on the council’s roadworks list. The emergency bridge repair closure was due to end at 5pm on Monday 2 November; the council has not published a reopening notice, so check the roadworks page before relying on it.

Is the A40 closed near Uxbridge?

Not near Uxbridge. National Highways’ report has no A40 closures between Swakeleys and Denham to 10 November, and on 3 November TfL listed no works on the Hillingdon stretch. In central London the westbound Westway is down to two lanes between Edgware Road and the Northern Roundabout until 5 December.

Is the M25 closed near Uxbridge?

At night, yes. The anti-clockwise carriageway from junction 16 to junction 15 closes from 10pm to 5.30am on Thursday 5 November, and from 11pm on Friday 6 November to 6am on Saturday. Junction 17 to junction 16 anti-clockwise closes from 10pm to 5.30am on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 November. Check National Highways’ closure report before a late airport run.

Is the M4 closed this week?

Not near Heathrow this week. Next week the eastbound carriageway from junction 3 to junction 1 closes from 10pm to 5.30am on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 November, for concrete works.

Is the Piccadilly line running to Uxbridge?

Yes, until the weekend of 21 and 22 November, when there is no Piccadilly service between Hammersmith and Uxbridge from 1.30am on Saturday and all day Sunday. The Metropolitan line is also closed between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge that weekend.

Is the Metropolitan line closed?

Not before 21 November. TfL’s planned-works feed shows no service between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November, with replacement buses.

Where can I check live roadworks in Hillingdon?

Two places: Hillingdon Council’s roadworks notices with the linked one.network map for borough roads, and National Highways travel updates for the M25, M40, M4 and the A40 west of Swakeleys.

Where is the cheapest parking in Uxbridge town centre?

For stays over two hours, The Chimes car park: £3.65 for three hours and £9.35 for eight, against a £1.40-per-15-minutes street rate with a two-hour cap for non-residents. On Sundays The Chimes charges a flat £3.00 for up to five hours.

Does Uxbridge station have a car park?

No. Hillingdon station, one stop out, has one, and The Chimes multi-storey is a short walk from the Uxbridge platforms. Our tube guide covers the station options.

Sources

Closure dates come from the council’s published notices and National Highways’ seven-day closure report, and can change at short notice. Always check the live sources before setting out. Last checked 5 November 2026.