Furze Lane reopens after work

The road had been closed for several months. However, there is still plenty more work planned around the Winslow area in the coming weeks.

The following is an update published on social media by Winslow Town Council; 

As many of you will have discovered, the footpath on the west side of the railway bridge on Buckingham Road was open for pedestrian use today, and it will be open between Monday and Friday next week. However it will be closed to allow further work to take place this Saturday and Sunday (3 & 4 Sept) and the same next weekend (10 & 11 Sept). It will then reopen on 12 September – though it will again be closed between 22 October and 11 November.

From about 5pm tonight (Friday 2nd September), Furze Lane will reopen to traffic. The new road layout there provides just a single traffic lane and a separate footway over the bridge, so please take care if the signals are not working.

From Monday 12 September until Friday 11 November EWR will be undertaking major works on the Buckingham Road bridge, with lights controlling traffic using a single-lane over the bridge. For these two months Great Horwood Road will be closed to all traffic at its junction with Buckingham Road. This is to provide an area to store materials necessary to do the work on the bridge, and to allow various changes to be made to services (water, sewage and telecoms) under that junction. It should also help to avoid significant traffic delays on the A413 itself. But anyone trying to get between Great Horwood and Winslow will need to travel via Padbury or Little Horwood. Access to and from premises on Great Horwood Road will be possible at all times but only via Great Horwood village.
Between 12 September and 11 November only one traffic lane and footway will be open. The traffic lane and footway on the east side of the bridge will be closed between 12 September and 21 October. Then from 22 October to 11 November the traffic lane and footway on the west side of the bridge will be closed.
Elsewhere in Winslow, Anglian Water will be laying a new water main (the project was originally scheduled for the start of this year). Between 12 September and 14 October this will involve work along the cycleway between Little Horwood Road and Piccadilly, with temporary traffic signals between 12 and 25 September on the double-bend where the cycleway crosses Little Horwood Road. Although there are closure notices published for some footpaths in this area, I understand that Anglian Water do not expect to have to close any paths. A second phase of work, between Piccadilly and Highfield Road (affecting the Station Road junction with Buckingham Road, and work along Buckingham Road) is now scheduled to take place early in 2023.

All of these arrangements have been agreed between EWR or Anglian Water and Buckinghamshire Council as the highway authority. The Town Council is but a by-stander in these matters though we have done our best to keep the community impact of these essential works to a minimum.