ePetition details
Closure of A4103 for resurfacing
Petition of local residents and businesses to avoid complete road closure of A4103 for resurfacing work by Balfour Beatty/Herefordshire Council. This will cause inconvenience and financial losses to the community and local businesses.
This ePetition ran from 25/01/2018 to 03/04/2018 and has now finished.
267 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
The council, as a responsible highway authority and traffic
authority is unable to commit to not allowing the A4103 to be
simultaneously closed on both carriageways. Such closures may be
required to safely and efficiently undertake both highway works,
works to our own and others apparatus that is located in the
highway, for planned events and in response to incidents such as
road traffic collisions.
The timescale and methods for the completion of the challenge fund
works to the A4103 between Hereford and the junction with the A417
at Newtown Cross (and the A438 to the West of Hereford between
Swainshill and the junction with the A4111 at Willersley) will be
the subject of an forthcoming decision, which is to be taken by
myself (the Cabinet Member Transport and Regulatory
Services).
That decision will consider whether we:
• Do the work in as short as period as possible (for
example of up to 4 weeks) which may include some periods of 24 hour
road closure to reduce the overall duration.
• Use a series of shorter road closures over a longer period
of time (this could include day time, night time closures or 24
hour closures), with the road being open for definite periods
between each closure.
• Complete the works using less durable materials that do not
require full road closures.
• Cease works on this project.
The first phase of the challenge fund works on the A4103 was
completed using weekday closures over a 6 week period. As can be
seen, whilst there are inevitably similarities between the approach
taken to the delivery of the first phase of the Challenge Fund
Works in 2017, none of the approaches considered for the remainder
of the works will lead to the closure of the A4103 in the same way
as it was in late 2017.
I will consider the view as expressed through this petition when
taking the decision on the timescale and methods for the completion
of the challenge fund works. Further, in reaching my decision I
shall consider the duty that the council is under to secure the
expeditious movement of traffic on the road network; and to
maintain the fabric of the highway.
Councillor Barry Durkin
Cabinet Member Transport and Regulatory Services