Briddlesford Road near Wootton will close this morning (Monday) as a 7-week scheme gets underway to replace a gas main on the busy stretch of road, part of a £1.1million investment in the local gas network.
Gas network company SGN is replacing existing metal gas mains and services with modern plastic pipes to ensure the Wootton Bridge community continues to receive a continued safe and reliable gas supply.
This essential work forms part of an ongoing mains replacement programme developed with the Health and Safety Executive.
As the project progresses to the next stage, Briddlesford Road is being closed between Blacklands Lane and Briddlesford Lodge Farm, with work expected to last until around 10th April.
Access for cyclists and pedestrians will be maintained and a signed diversion will be in place for motorists.
Briddlesford Lodge Farm Shop and Bluebells Café will remain open, with access from the north of Briddlesford Road (Wootton end). The Dores Hill Farm Emporium will remain open, with access from the south of Briddlesford Road (Lynbottom end). Blacklands Lane will also remain open.
Christopher Holford, SGN Construction Manager, says:
“We’ve worked closely with the local authorities in planning this work and we will be doing everything we can to limit disruption during our essential project.
Article continues below this advertisement “We appreciate that roadworks can be frustrating, however, the new plastic pipe has a minimum lifespan of 80 years. This means once the work has been completed, Wootton Bridge homes and businesses will enjoy the benefits of a continued safe and reliable gas supply for many years to come.”
Why is that car doing 100mph ?
I think it is terrible…..
best you go specsavers…
Really not worthwhile replacing the gas pipes when gas usage will be banned by the end of the decade.
I remember the days when roadworks would only take up one lane at time. Those were the days. I suppose they need both lanes nowadays so they can get the patio set and sun loungers out to take it easy until they feel like doing some actual work.
Be interesting to see if they finish before 7 weeks is up, usually it is just one person working and several looking on, or absolutely no persons working for days – as was the case with the last road closure.
Well what do you expect, are you not aware that there is a shortage of brooms to lean on.
Says 6 weeks on the signs either end of closure ….
So to get to the tip from East Cowes does that mean driving into Newport and up Staplers and approaching from that direction? Or is there a quicker way? Genuine question.
Go via Havenstreet but that would mean going via Firestone Copse, failing that turn at the Lavender Farm on Blacklands Lane, either way it will add extra time and fuel to your journey. I always check out the traffic map before I leave home just to see where the traffic and hick ups are for that day.
Probably being laid ready for another new housing estate.
Never understood why all these utility pipes, cables etc aren’t laid under the verges in places like this or under the pavement in towns? Perhaps there’s a reason, but it would seem a more logical place to bury them.
Spot on, many areas of the country try to lay utilities under farmland at the roadsides and the farmers are paid handsomely for the disruption, it is a win win.
Why close a whole road, as meaning both lanes, for a gas pipe… surely it is not under the tar mac, where the vibrations would ruin it… and if the old one is near the road, why not put the new one off the roadway, like about three feet away..?? And when Back filling top it with tar mac so we can have a cycle/pedestrian way…