Category: Driving & Car Parking

Bath and North East Somerset Council is advising people to plan their journeys between 3 – 21 February as highway improvement work in Prior Park Road, Bath, are carried out.

Resurfacing, drainage and footway improvement works will be carried out in stages over a period of 19 days. Residents and business have been contacted directly by the council. The road will reopen most weekends. Some of the works coincide with the school half-term to minimise disruption to the traffic network.

Prior Park Road schedule of works is as follows:

• Footway improvement works, 3 – 7 February. Two-way temporary signals in place throughout at the junction of Prior Park Road between and Prior Park Cul-De-Sac.
• Drainage improvement works, 10 – 14 February. Full road closure in place throughout between the junction of Prior Park Cottages and the double mini roundabout. Diversion route will be in place. 
• Highway resurfacing works, 17 – 21 February. Highway resurfacing at Prior Park Road between its northern junction with the double mini roundabout and Bath Abbey Cemetery. Works to be done under full road closure between 7am and 7pm. Diversion route will be in place. 

The council is resurfacing 5,000m­2 of highway during the works, bringing an area of highway equivalent to 19 tennis courts back to a high standard. Lining works will also be completed.

Advanced notices and diversion routes for traffic will be in place during works that require a closure on Prior Park Road. The council will also use temporary variable messaging signs to warn motorists of the works. Diversion routes for these and all other roadworks can be seen on one.network.

Press release by Bath & North East Somerset Council.