Residents face a whole week of noisy late-night roadworks and commuter chaos as part of final construction works on one of Kingston’s main mini-Holland cycle routes.

Kingston Council has announced that final roadworks on the Portsmouth Road route, which has been undergoing construction for 15 months, will take place over five days this month from 8pm to 5am.

Residents have not been warned what date works will begin, though the council hopes to start on Monday, March 20.

In November last year, the council was forced to apologise after overnight roadworks overran, causing rush hour chaos for commuters and waking up furious residents.

Cllr Terry Paton, cabinet member for the mini-Holland cycle route, said: “We will install advance warning signs along the route and we have sent letters to properties where works are taking place. There will be some disruption and we are sorry for the inconvenience this will cause.

“Whenever possible we avoid night time works, however, as Portsmouth Road is a key route into the town centre we have had to make the difficult decision to permit evening works due to the disruption day-time works would have on the wider road network.

“Every effort will be made to ensure that noisy operations are kept to a minimum, but due to the nature of the works it is inevitable that there will be some noise, smoke and dust. We apologise for this.”

The roadworks are part of the council’s £33m plans to build European-styled cycle tracks across Kingston in a bid to make the borough bike-friendly.

Routes are planned across New Malden, Surbiton, Kingston and Tolworth.

The scheme, called Go-Cycle by the council, has not been without controversy, with hundreds of residents complaining of a “money-making” traffic camera in Surbiton Crescent.

So far more than £2m in fines have been issued.