Drivers are being warned of “inevitable delays” when work to create two new junctions begins in Lichfield.
The roadworks will allow the creation of access points for the Deanslade Park housing development on the Birmingham Road.
The junctions will be built on the approach to the Falkland Road roundabout.
The work is expected to take 49 weeks to complete and will include road widening, a new bus lay-by and realigned walkways.
Temporary signals and other traffic management will be in place, before a road closure is put in place towards the end of the works.
Cllr David Williams, Staffordshire County Council’s cabinet member for highways and transport said:
“This scheme is supporting the development of new homes to the south west of Lichfield and being funded by the developer.
“It is close to the final section of the southern bypass which we look forward to opening imminently – making a huge difference to the city and its future growth.
“It is a lengthy works period so we would ask people to allow additional travel time if they need to use this route.
“Temporary traffic signals will be in place causing some inevitable delays so we would like to thank people for their patience while the scheme is being carried out.”
The county council has also set up the S278DeansladeFarm@staffordshire.gov.uk email address for anyone wanting further information about the scheme.
Welcome to Lichfield, you can never leave (via traditional methods)
How on earth can it take nearly a year to build 2 junctions!?! It boggles the mind!!
Having lived through the development of this estate and the Southern bypass I can confirm the following:
1 The schedule will have been drawn up entirely for the developer’s convenience. I notice the works are already longer than advised on the signs put up (38weeks).
2 The works will overrun.
3 No communication will be given to local residents about the timings or duration of temporary traffic lights or other disruption.
4 The temporary traffic lights will occasionally fail. No one will be available to rectify this until the following morning.
5 Our elected representatives are not interested in the problems caused to residents.
These works will take a year to complete. This is to accommodate the additional traffic from the estate – originally said to be minimal when planning consent was granted.
I hope others will remember this when the elections come round again.
That the council persist in calling a road which goes from what is becoming a residential area to a long established residential area and goes through what is going to become a residential area a bypass is deliberate dishonesty at this point. It not a bypass it’s an access road for yet more new housing that will create yet more traffic on already congested local roads. Now we have to suffer nearly a year of disruption on one of the main routes in and out of the city, where there has already been temporary traffic lights at times, because of work which will enable even more traffic on it.
If you live in Wall we already have had 19 weeks of Claypit lane shut, then this week it is shut again for more work for Deanslade now Birmingham rd is to be shut. Who do i send the bill for the extra fuel I have used
These works, combined with the imminent closure of the A38 at Streethay, are going to mean that getting out of the city and any other time that 3am is going to be an absolute nightmare.
I feel (again) for the residents of Shortbutts Lane who will no doubt bear the brunt of people trying to get to the A38 in the mornings and evenings.
Totally understand that new developments (whether we like them or not) need proper road access, but the timing of roadworks across the city needs some serious attention. Everywhere you turn at the moment it feels as though you’re stuck in queues for temporary traffic lights!
Don’t it make you fell that way?
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
Change Paradise,
Put in a traffic block!
Will the canal still go under the railway bridge?
Very good Philip. Don’t forget the bit about putting the trees in a tree museum (HS2 works).
I hope the new school, retail centre and leisure centre they’re building will compensate. What???
What is Mr Fabricant’s role in this debacle.? WHY isn’t he using his influence to support the residents that voted for him? Perhaps time for a change!!!
Well if you think thats bad, wait until they rebuild the kwik-fit island on the otherside of town
What a complete and utter mess they are creating.
Lichfield has been in a state of roadworks, house building and destroying the landscape for years. The MPs ignore letters asking about where the leisure centres, GPs, parks/recreation and so on are going and instead just keep building more and more housing. People are getting sick of it and the government doesn’t care at all. Not getting my vote next time. Lichfield is a sinking ship – if the choice is drown in a sea of people here or take a chance in other waters, then i know what i’ll be doing when i complete my degree. Bon Voyage
Lichfield, come for the colourful hoardings of failed projects, stay for the endless traffic jams.
I am ready to vote for a new MP and all new council representatives. I am not bothered about what party they represent, only that literally ANYONE else would do a better job. This lot won’t stop until either we vote them all out, or they are allowed to concrete over everything within a ten mile radius of Lichfield.
Face it …Lichfield is a lost cause….unwanted building developments, endless traffic delays with sets of single traffic lights all set to red, road closures that last for months, elected representatives who complain about noise from events in the park, residents litter picking because the council don’t bother, trees and local woodland destroyed for HS2 and an elected MP who isn’t even remotely interested.
Can I ask yet again – will all these new residents have to flock to the already crowded dentists, doctors and any other needed facilities? Where residents here now already have to wait weeks for appointments? The only ones who’ll gain are the developers who won’t be living in this place anyway!! not too mention more risk of floods with less & less places for the water to go! Oh well – no one cares anyway!!
I’m sorry to say but we moved here from Birmingham to one of these new developments in Rugeley and are now selling up to move back to Birmingham.
The only reason I’m commenting is because these developments are awful there are that many houses crammed together with tiny overlooked gardens with no infrastructure or local amenities like shops or public transport links. They are taking up all of your lovely green belt land as well as the land that’s being taken for the HS2 Lichfield will be unrecognisable. This route that is going to cause the delays for nearly a year is the main route we use to get to Birmingham and are aware of the destruction it is causing to Lichfield which to us was always a lovely place to come to but now the character of Lichfield is being lost to all these new developments.
Keep looking at end of bypass by shell garage looks like one big bottle neck this is just a housing estate Rd just know they will dig it all up and change it might not be as many times as shell garage dig theres up
A year to do this after how many years of doing the bypass? Guess that’s what you get when you only offer work to one contractor (Amey)
Work carried out to the usual industry standard, a gang of six workers, 1 on the phone 1 watching the local talent 1 reading the paper 1 yawning trying to keep awake 1 looking for the 10 pence that was dropped an hour ago and 1 thinking about starting work and of course no weekend working and start and finish times must be consistent with industry standard working
practice 10 am start and 3 pm finish time all of which equals 49 weeks for a 10 week job.
Let’s face it, the time it takes to do anything in this country is a joke. No sense of urgency, no obvious control, spaces of time when nothing seems to be happening. Mañana seems to be the key concept in how work is carried out. Other countries must be laughing at our inefficiency and incompetence. And to think, we were sold privatisation on the basis that the free market would improve efficiency.
No response from the email address given, not even an acknowledgment.
Complete radio silence from my County Councillor.
Perhaps withholding Council Tax payments will get their attention?