Roadworks, temporary local road closures, restrictions and parades

Area: Heywood
Reason: to resurface the carriageway as part of additional £12 million road improvement programme.
Expected start and finish: 8am-5pm each day from Monday, 19 November 2018 - Monday, 3 December 2018 as required.
Restriction and location: temporary closure of 

• Schofield Street from its junction with Walton Street to its junction with Hardfield Street.

Alternative route: the alternative route for vehicles will be signed on street when the closure is in place. Pedestrian access will not be affected.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

Area: Heywood
Reason: to resurface the carriageway.
Expected start and finish: 8am-5pm each day from Monday, 26 November 2018 - Monday, 10 December 2018.
Restriction and location: temporary closure of 

• Mount Street from its junction with Schofield Street to its junction with Manchester Street. Pedestrian access won't be affected.

Alternative route: the alternative route for vehicles will be Schofield Street, Hardfield Street and Manchester Street.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

Area: Heywood
Reason: to resurface the carriageway.
Expected start and finish: 8am-5pm each day from Monday, 26 November 2018 - Monday, 10 December 2018.
Restriction and location: temporary closure of 

• Peel Street from its junction with Bury Street and Bridge Street to its junction with Derby Street. Pedestrian access won't be affected.

Alternative route: the alternative route for vehicles will be Cherwell Avenue, Bank Top Street, George Street, Bridge Street and Bury Street.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

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Area: Rochdale
Reason: to facilitate the safe repair of a gas main in the carriageway.
Expected start and finish: 5pm, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 - 6pm, Wednesday, 28 November 2018.
Restriction and location: temporary closure of

• Cook Terrace, from the junction of Halifax Road to a point 10 metres in an easterly direction.

Alternative route: the alternative route for vehicles is via Halifax Road and Cook Street.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

Area: Rochdale
Reason: to allow the investigation and repair of the carriageway and culvert following a landslip.
Expected start and finish: 8am, Friday, 23 November 2018 - 6pm, Friday, 4 January 2019.
Restriction and location: temporary closure of 

• Ashworth Road, from a point 700 metres north of its junction with Bury and Rochdale Old Road for a distance of 80 metres in a north westerly direction (Between Ashworth Valley Scout Camp to the North and Gelder Clough Caravan Park to the south).

Alternative route: the alternative route for vehicles will be via Ashworth Road, Edenfield Road, Moorland Avenue, Bagslate Moor Road, Norden Road, Bury and Rochdale Old Road.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

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Area: Middleton
Reason: to allow access to a housing development site. 
Expected start and finish: 8am, Monday, 16 July 2018 - 6pm, Wednesday, 15 January 2020.
Restriction and location: temporary cycle lane closure:

• On the east side of Hollin Lane from a point 125 metres north of its junction with Hazelhurst Drive for a distance of 56 metres in a northerly direction.
• From a point 245 metres north of its junction with Hazelhurst Drive for a distance of 52 metres in a northerly direction.

Alternative route: cyclists will still be able to travel down these road using the main areas of the road, not the cycle lanes.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

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Area: Pennines
Reason: to facilitate drainage repair work to the carriageway.
Expected start and finish: 7.30pm, Monday, 19 November 2018 - Friday, 30 November 2018.

• Restriction and location: temporary closure of Egremont Road from a point 120 metres south east of its junction with Beechfield Road for a distance of 20 metres in a south easterly direction (Outside properties 81- 83 Egremont Road).

Alternative route: the alternative route for vehicles is via Egremont Road and Beechfield Road.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

Area: Pennines
Reason: for the protection of the public whilst works are being undertaken on the new housing development.
Expected start and finish: 8am-5pm, each day from Monday, 26 November 2018 - Monday, 25 November 2019.

• Restriction and location: temporary closure of Unnamed footpath from Bramhall Close to Elizabethan Way, from Elizabethan Way for a distance of 46 metres in a north westerly direction.

Alternative route: the alternative route for pedestrians and cyclists will be clearly signed when the closure is in place.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

Area: Pennines
Reason: to hold the Littleborough Christmas light switch on event.
Expected start and finish:

• Temporary closure 10am-7pm, Saturday, 1 December 2018
• No waiting at any time 8am-7pm, Saturday, 1 December 2018

Restriction and location:

• Temporary closure of Railway Street, from its junction with Church Street to its junction with Peel Street.
• No waiting at any time along Railway Street, both sides from its junction with Church Street to its junction with Peel Street.

Alternative route: the alternative route for vehicles will be Church Street, Morgan Street and Peel Street.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

Area: Pennines
Reason: to hold the Springhill Hospice Santa Dash or Dawdle.
Expected start and finish: 10.55am-11.20am, on Sunday, 9 December 2018.

• Restriction and location: temporary closure of Rakewood Road from the entrance/exit of the Visitors Centre Car Park to a point 20 metres south of the Unnamed Footpath around Hollingworth Lake, rear Lake Bank. 

Alternative route: due to the nature and duration of the event it is not necessary for alternative routes to be in place.
Organised by: Rochdale Borough Council.

Area: Pennines
Work being undertaken: Virgin Media are currently installing new Fibre Broadband in the Pennines area.
Who to contact: for any issues about this work, please use the following methods to gain the quickest and safest possible resolution.

Contractors on site - contact a site supervisor. They are best placed to resolve many issues there and then. In most instances, this will be the quickest and safest way to resolve any issue.

Virgin Media Helpdesk - if unresolved, or there are no contractors in the area, or if the site has been left in an unsafe manner and requires urgent attention, please ring the Virgin Media helpdesk on 0333 000 5925.

The helpdesk hours are: Monday-Friday, 8am-7.30pm, Saturday, 8am-12noon. The helpdesk will alert the contractor and Virgin Media's compliance engineers.

Alternatively, please email expansionworks@virginmedia.co.uk with details of your address and preferred contact method.

Rochdale Borough Council Highways - we need to be aware of issues being raised with Virgin Media. Please email highways@rochdale.gov.uk or phone on 0300 303 8879, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. At all other times, please phone our Contact Centre on 0300 303 8875 for emergency work on the highway.

Expected start and finish: ongoing