Roadworks until spring for road revamp

Western Road is set for months of disruption

A £700,000 overhaul of a road through Leicester’s West End starts on Sunday.

Work to Western Road will then continue until the spring, said Leicester City Council.

Traffic restrictions will be in place, warned the authority, for what it called “essential maintenance”.

Initial work will see dropped kerbs, which will no longer provide access to parking or loading areas across the footpaths removed.

Changes will be made to the crossroads with Briton Street to give priority to vehicles and cycles on Briton Street.

Carriageway drainage will be worked on.

The works would take place in short sections “to minimise disruption”, said the council, and would be suspended over Christmas.

Rolling road closures and parking restrictions will be required.

This is expected to be completed by late January before resurfacing of the main carriageway on Western Road, between Braunstone Gate and Briton Street, is carried out in spring 2025.

Assistant mayor Geoff Whittle said diversions would be “clearly signposted” and disruption would “be kept to a minimum wherever possible”.

Funding from the scheme comes from the Connecting Leicester programme, supported by the Department for Transport’s Transforming Cities Fund.