Emergency repairs to manhole cover on Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury

Emergency work to repair and make safe a defective and dangerous manhole cover on Smithfield Road in Shrewsbury is due to begin today (Wednesday 2 October) at 9.30am, and is expected to take two days to complete.

The work to the manhole, which is situated at the junction with Raven Meadows, will be carried out by contractors working on behalf of BT.

To enable work to be carried out safely temporary traffic lights will be used and some disruption to traffic is expected.

Through traffic that would normally use Smithfield Road is advised to use an alternative route via the inner ring road – B4380 Roman Road via A5112 Pritchard Way/Bage Way/Telford Way and vice-versa – until the works have been completed.