Wood End Lane Stoke Lacey to close for five days from today

Wood End Lane, near Stoke Lacey will be closed from today (November 18) until Friday, November 22, while replacement gully and pipe works are carried out.

In a letter published by Herefordshire council, a spokesperson said due to the type of work that needs to be carried out, a full closure, 24 hours a day would be necessary. 

"We will do all we can to provide vehicular access to properties, although there may be times when we are not able to do so safely or there may be delays," they added.

Several other Herefordshire roads will face partial closures next week.

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Months of closures have started on the A49, with roadworks planned throughout the county.

National Highways, which is responsible for the A49 trunk road in Herefordshire, has given notice that it has made an order on the road to allow bend and junction improvement works to be carried out.

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The order will allow lengths of the road between its junction with the A40, Wilton Road, and the Pippins at Wilton, Ross-on-Wye, and the A456 at Woofferton on the Shropshire border, to be closed.