A BUSY Herefordshire road will be closed for more than a week this month.

The C1125 at Sutton St Nicholas will be closed for foul development works, a notice of intention for a temporary closure order said.

The notice, published by Herefordshire Council, said that the proposed closure is required due to the works and the likelihood of danger to the public while they are taking place.

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The closure, from the edge of the village, near the Woodville Grove turn, to a point 200 metres south, will come into force on October 26 and is expected to last nine days.

The proposed diversion is via the C1126, A465, and C1125 and vice versa.

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Plans to build 24 new homes on the edge of the village were approved in 2023, four years after a bid to build on the site was first put forward.

The bid by Bell Homes of Gloucestershire to create the estate south of Sutton St Nicholas appeared to have been held up while a so-called section 106 arrangement, under which a developer undertakes to fund wider community improvements, was concluded.

This takes the form of a £72,600 payment to Sutton St Nicholas Primary School, and £28,400 to provide a children’s play area in the village and other open space, and £53,000 for road narrowing and other transport improvements in the immediate area, according to an agreement between Bell and Herefordshire Council.