Temporary road to be built for pub users
GoogleA temporary new road will ensure customers can still get to a pub which would otherwise be cut off during the construction of flood defences.
The Environment Agency has applied for permission to create a short access route to the Grade II-listed Yew Tree pub in Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire.
Motorists currently reach it from Victoria Road - part of which will be shut for the flood defence works.
Plans have been submitted to South Ribble Borough Council, proposing a 25m (27yd) section of footpath near the A6 be dug up and replaced with a road that would connect to an existing loading bay that runs alongside the pub.
Together, the two facilities would provide a one-way route into the car park.
As vehicles would not be able to leave by the same way, it is also proposed that a gap is cut into a pavement to enable customers to exit.
The makeshift arrangements would be removed and the original road layout reinstated once the flood defence work was completed.
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