Spalding town centre road to shut for a month

A busy town centre road will be shut for a month to allow for repair works.

Part of St Thomas’ Road in Spalding will be closed for four weeks from next month for a traffic signal refurb, Lincolnshire County Council have announced.

Motorists won’t be feeling the love when the work begins on St Valentine’s Day.

The works will be carried out at the T-junction between Winsover Road and St Thomas’s Road in Spalding, the highways authority explained.

Karen Cassar, assistant director of highways, said: “We’re very pleased to be able to take the time and put in the resources to get this improvement for Spalding.

“The current signal equipment is at the end of its life, and we can replace this now with extra low voltage equipment which will help to reduce the carbon footprint.”

LCC say a road closure will ‘be in place throughout the work duration’, expected to last from Wednesday, February 14 to Tuesday, March 12, subject to suitable weather.

Traffic will be diverted from Winsover Road onto Hawthorn Bank.

Motorists should then follow the road to Little London Road, then to London Road (B1172).

Traffic will be required to turn onto Magellan Way then onto St Thomas’s Road and vice versa.

Karen Cassar added: “Whilst we are refurbishing the equipment, we will also be carrying out work on the duct chambers and ducting on-site where needed.

More stories like this delivered straight to your inbox every morning - sign up to The Briefing here.

“We will do everything possible to keep disruption to a minimum and a road closure will need to be in place for the works to be completed.

“I want to thank everyone effected by these improvement works for their patience whilst we get the new equipment in place.”