{"id":449144,"date":"2025-09-25T00:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449144\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:26:25","slug":"travel-chaos-as-monday-to-friday-road-closures-on-key-routes-to-last-for-nine-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449144\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel chaos as Monday to Friday road closures on key routes to last for NINE MONTHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prolonged closures are needed as a new ‘travel hub’ is built in PrestwichA new travel hub is being built on the former Fairfax Road car park<\/p>\n

Sections of major roads through a town centre are to close between Monday and Friday for a nine month period as a transport hub is built.<\/p>\n

Parts of both Fairfax Road and Rectory Lane in the centre of Prestwich<\/a> will be closed to traffic from Monday, October 13 as steel deliveries and other work carries on at the former street level car park site.<\/p>\n

A temporary road closure order states Fairfax Road will be closed between Highfield Road and Heys Road\/ Poppythorn Lane from 7am on Mondays until 5pm on Fridays.<\/p>\n

To see planning applications; traffic and road diversions and layout changes; and more, visit the Public Notices Portal HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Similarly, a section of Rectory Lane, from its junction with Fairfax Road to a point 25 metres south of Fairfax Road will also be closed to traffic between those times.<\/p>\n

After 5pm on Fridays the roads will be re-opened over the weekends until closing again on Mondays at 7am.<\/p>\n

The road closure order will be in effect for a year, although the work is expected to take nine months.<\/p>\n

The alternative route advised for vehicles will be via Bury<\/a> New Road, St Mary\u2019s Road and Rectory Lane (St Mary\u2019s Road to Heywood<\/a> Road), Heywood Road and Heys Road and vice versa.<\/p>\n

The notice, said: \u201cThe reason for the proposed order is to facilitate excavation for new services and facilitate the completion of the travel hub.\u201d<\/p>\n

The travel hub in Prestwich is taking shape (Pic: Your Prestwich)<\/p>\n

Fairfax Road currently funnels traffic into the centre of Prestwich and the main public car park at the Longfield centre and in the other direction towards the M60<\/a> and Bury New Road.<\/p>\n

The road can become congested, particularly at peak times.<\/p>\n

Work began in October, 2024 to deliver a \u00a314m multi-storey car park and travel hub in the centre of Prestwich.<\/p>\n

The project is the the first phase of a massive \u00a3100m regeneration project to create a new village centre which includes demolition of the current Longfield centre, a new retail centre, market hall and community hub along with more than 200 new homes.<\/p>\n

The first part of that plan is the former Fairfax Road car park site which had capacity for 168 vehicles. A two-storey, three -level car park will be built with 301 spaces<\/p>\n

Recently, Your Prestwich, who are managing the regeneration, gave an update on the travel hub project.<\/p>\n

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It said: \u201cDespite some wet weather<\/a>, progress is pushing on with steel erection now well underway, alongside grouting to columns and retaining wall infills.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just two weeks away from starting masonry and four weeks from the first concrete floor toppings \u2013 exciting milestones as the hub continues to take shape.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prolonged closures are needed as a new ‘travel hub’ is built in PrestwichA new travel hub is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1285,393,4884,2465,3044,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-449144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-bury","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-prestwich","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115262101093005820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}