UK roadworks data, ready to use.
LiveRoad ingests the Department for Transport's Street Manager feed — the same source councils and contractors file permits into — and turns it into clean, queryable, near‑real‑time data covering every highway authority in England, plus every Scottish road authority from the Scottish Road Works Register. If your organisation needs to know what's being dug up, where, and when, we can deliver it however suits you.
Who it's for
Fleets & logistics
Route-level disruption ahead of time — closures and works on the corridors your vehicles actually use, as data or alerts.
Councils & highways teams
A live view of works across your patch and your neighbours' — including embeddable maps for resident-facing pages.
Insurers & claims
Historical works data for a location and date — what was being dug up at this postcode when the incident happened.
Utilities & contractors
Coordination intelligence — see scheduled works near yours and avoid clashes, lane rental fines and repeat digs.
Media & research
Aggregates and rankings — worst roads, busiest councils, works by category — citable and refreshed continuously.
Property, planning & conveyancing
Works history and pipeline for a site, including Section 58 restrictions, checked as often as you need up to completion.
How you can take it
API with your own keys
Query works by location, radius, road, council or impact tier, or pull only what changed since a date. Create and revoke your own keys in the works tool. Read the API guide.
Embeddable map and widget
A live roadworks map for your own site or intranet, or a "Roadworks in your town" list that keeps itself current. Build yours.
Site watch alerts
Upload your sites and get a morning email about new or changed works near any of them, Section 58 notices first.
Custom reports
One-off extracts or recurring datasets — historical, filtered, in the shape your team needs.
Official diversions
Where the highway authority publishes the diversion for a closure, we show it on the map beside the closure and say why it was linked. Otherwise we point you to the traffic order.
Logins for your clients
Consultancies can give each client their own login, limited to that client's sites, under your licence.
See what the works data covers: coverage, history, fields and statuses.
Pricing
Annual data licence
Search, exports and API access for your own team. Priced by the number of sites you monitor and how you want the data delivered.
Partner licence
For consultancies and advisers who serve clients: your own licence, plus a login for each client limited to that client's sites.
One-off report
A works extract for a list of sites or an area and a date range, back to July 2020. Quoted per report.
Free trial
Before you commit, we set you up with a trial on your own sites so you can check the data against what you already know.
Tell us roughly how many sites or matters you need to check each month and where they are, and we'll send a quote.
Tell us what you need
A direct line to the people who built it. Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll tell you honestly whether our data can do it — and set up a pilot if it's a fit.
LiveRoad is a 5 Rivers Labs product. Source data: DfT Street Manager (England) and the Scottish Road Works Register (Scotland), both open data under the Open Government Licence v3.0, aggregated and enriched. Consumer product remains free — see the live map.