YEOVIL NEWS: Old Road to close for a month

A WELL-USED road leading in and out of Yeovil is to be closed for a month to allow for Wessex Water to carry out work.

Somerset County Council has announced that the Old Road, which leads from Odcombe to Yeovil and is often used as a short-cut to avoid the more busier roads in and out of the town, will be closed on a temporary basis so Wessex Water can carry out the removal of an existing rising main and build a foul-rising main for new development in the road.

An order prohibiting all traffic from going along Old Road from outside the properties of High Leaze Farm to Houndstone Cottages – a distance of 165 metres – became effective on March 13, 2017, and will remain in force for 18 months.

The works, however, are expected to start on May 4, 2017, and last for one month.

A diversion route will be in place taking motorists along New Road towards Montacute and through Lower Odcombe to get around the closure.

PHOTO - ABOVE: The blue line shows the diversion route with the "closed area" marked in red.

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