Roadworks outside Mansfield college to last ‘until mid-November’

Works are starting around West Nottinghamshire College's Derby Road campus in Mansfield - and will last for nearly a year. (Photo by: Local Democracy Reporting Service)

Nottinghamshire Council^[1] has revealed the timeline after the works, at West Nottinghamshire College^[2]’s Derby Road campus, began in August and caused major disruption.

Traffic has been impacted by the work, which features plans for new pedestrian and cycle paths alongside road resurfacing, traffic resignalling and crossing improvements.

The overall package of work, being led by the council and its highways contractor Via East Midlands^[3], is due to last for 46 weeks, until July 2024, but council bosses have confirmed the existing traffic disruption – fuelled by three-way temporary traffic lights – is only due to last for another two months.

Coun Ben Bradley, Mansfield MP, council leader and member for Mansfield North, said: “It’s being done in phases and I recognise the signage isn’t clear.

“The major disruption of the lights will not last 46 weeks, it will only be for a handful of weeks. The rest of it will be much easier and I’ve asked Via to make this clearer in its communications.

The work is part of what Coun Bradley says is a “wider highways improvement”.

Nearby Cauldwell Road is currently closed to motorists and will reopen on October 15.