Road shut for eight weeks for repairs

Part of a road in Cambridgeshire will be shut for eight weeks for nearly £1m of repairs.

Peat soil has caused subsidence on a 1.1-mile (1.8-km) stretch of Sixteen Foot Bank, just outside Chatteris, Cambridgeshire County Council said.

It will be closed from 2 February. The work is expected to cost about £950,000.

Details of the diversion route in place have been published by the council.

It is part of ongoing work by the local authority to repair roads affected by peat soil.

The council said about 40% of Cambridgeshire, including most of Fenland and large areas of both Huntingdonshire and East Cambridgeshire, was made up of peatland, which made "the area's roads particularly difficult and expensive to maintain".

The reconstruction process involves digging down about 40cm (16in).

The council has to recycle the existing material by grinding it up and re-laying it to help stabilise the road base before resurfacing.

A £2.1m project to repair three other major roads began in January.

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