Delays on way as main roads to close for work
Main roads in two South Staffordshire villages will be closed while resurfacing work is carried out and a new roundabout built, under plans unveiled today.
The £250,000 work on Bilbrook Road in Bilbrook, which starts next Monday will take four months to complete.
The carriageway and some footpaths will be resurfaced from Pendeford Mill Lane to Millennium Way, while damaged kerbs will also be replaced.
The road will be closed from August 11 to 20 while it is relaid – but drivers have been warned they could face delays during the whole project.
Under separate plans, the junction of Duck Lane and Birches Bridge in Codsall, near to Bilbrook rail station, will be shut on Sunday for a day. Diversions will be in place at the junction of Duck Lane and Birches Bridge in Codsall, near to Bilbrook rail station.
The closure will affect traffic coming onto Birches Bridge from Birches Road and Duck Lane.
Traffic will be diverted down Lane Green Road, Bilbrook Road and Elliott's Lane, past Codsall High School, and back onto Wolverhampton Road. The work is expected to take place between 7.30am and 4pm.
It comes as part of a six week project to install a new double mini roundabout system on the railway bridge and a new pedestrian crossing over Keepers Lane.
Keepers Lane is currently closed 24 hours a day with a diversion route in place over Histons Hill.
Staffordshire County Council chiefs say access to properties and businesses along the length of the works in Bilbrook Road will be available throughout although may be restricted at times when repairs are carried out outside a property.
Bilbrook ward councillor Val Chapman said: "This is all part of the planned improvements to take Bilbrook forward.
"It probably will cause some delays but it will only be for a few weeks.
"The road is a mess and it really has been letting down the residents – we have had terrible potholes and the pavements are dangerous.
"The options are that we either leave the road as it is or we we put with a few delays for a few weeks. Other villages have had similar work done and it is great to see this happening."
It comes after plans for £470,000 of repairs were revealed on the busy A462 Warstone Road, in Saredon, which links to the M6.
