A wider project on the busy road has been delayed by half a year
A project to upgrade Victoria Street began in January 2025
Part of Victoria Street will be closed overnight for nearly two weeks from Monday evening (June 29) due to resurfacing works.
Bristol City Council has announced the busy road in central Bristol will be closed between Temple Way and St Thomas Street East between 7pm to 6am each night from June 29 until July 10.
Signposted diversions will be in place, and there may be some delays to loading and unloading while the resurfacing takes place, the council warned. Pedestrians and cyclists will still be able to access the road during the works.
The Novotel hotel can be accessed from the rear on Church Street via Temple Rose Street. Once the resurfacing work is finished, Victoria Street will re-open to two-way traffic.
Meanwhile, the wider project to overhaul Victoria Street has been delayed by half a year because of scaffolding blocking access to part of the road.
ETM Group, one of the council’s main construction partners, has been carrying out works on Victoria Street since January 2025. When the council announced its plans for Victoria Street, the work was forecast to be finished by this spring; the anticipated end date has now been pushed back until at least October.
The delay is because scaffolding related to work being done on the Milliners Building by a private company is blocking access to the road around the Counterslip, whose junction with Victoria Street requires an upgrade. The scaffolding is expected to be removed by the end of June, with the junction upgrade taking place between July and October.
The final piece of the Victoria Street puzzle will be resurfacing the Counterslip junction. The upgrade to the lower section of the road is nearly finished, and includes a two-way separated cycle path and a large bus shelter with a ‘living roof’ – essentially a bus stop with a planter on top.
The £5m works are part of BCC’s wider ‘Bus Route 2’ project to improve 13 miles’ worth of Bristol’s roads along that route, which stretches from Henbury in the north to Stockwell in the south.
The focus of the project is to add new bus lanes and bus prioritisation at traffic signals, create a network of joined up cycleways which are separated from motorised traffic, and improve access for pedestrians.
The work is being funded by the government’s City Regional Sustainable Travel Settlement – money from which can only be used on new projects. Funding from the CRSTS is paying for a number of the projects currently taking place in Bristol, including the Portway upgrade.