This will unfortunately lead to some disruption, with a single-lane closure on Hawleys Lane near the junction with Winwick Road, and a single-lane closure on the southbound carriageway of Winwick Road.

What is happening?

SP Energy Networks (SPEN) are carrying out essential works on Winwick Road (A49), from Monday 6 January 2025 until the Spring. This will unfortunately lead to some disruption, with a single-lane closure on Hawleys Lane near the junction with Winwick Road, and a single-lane closure on the southbound carriageway of Winwick Road.

What does the work involve?

SPEN’s work will involve installing a new underground electricity cable between two of its existing substations in Warrington – one on Dallam Lane and the other on Rodney Street. This will help to futureproof the local network and ensure a reliable electricity supply for customers into the future.

How will the work be carried out?

The work to install the cable connection along Winwick Road (A49), working southwards from near the junction with Hawleys Lane, will begin on 6 January 2025.

This will involve digging a trench between and installing cable ducts along Hawleys Lane, crossing the junction and continuing southwards along Winwick Road towards Jubilee Way. Once the work on Winwick Road is complete, SPEN will return to the Hawley Lane junction to install the cable ducts across this junction.

SPEN’s standard working hours will be 7am until 5pm, up to seven days a week. This will allow the work to be completed as efficiently and safely as possible and minimise disruption over an extended period.

Typically, SPEN will be digging around 25 to 40 metres each day before installing the ducts, filling in the trench and moving on to the next section. This will help to minimise disruption and limit activity to smaller areas at different points throughout the work.

When will the work be completed?

SPEN expect the project to be completed in Spring 2025.

What does this mean for road users?

SPEN have committed to keeping impacts people as low as possible. There will however be some temporary disruption while the work is carried out.

So that the work can be carried out safely, there will be a single-lane closure on Hawleys Lane near the junction with Winwick Road (A49), with temporary traffic lights in place to manage traffic safely.

SPEN will also be introducing a single-lane closure on to the southbound carriageway of Winwick Road. To minimise disruption for road users, the lane closure will be limited to 500-metre sections and will move on a rolling basis as our work progresses south towards our Rodney Street substation.

These traffic management measures will remain in place throughout the duration of the work.

How will surrounding areas be affected?

As the work continues southwards along Winwick Road, SPEN will need to install cable ducts across the following intersecting junctions:

• 18–19 January: Jubilee Way
• 25–26 January: Ireland Street
• 1–2 February: Jockey Street & Longford Street
• 8–9 February: Bluecoat Street

To ensure the cable ducts can be installed safely at these locations, SPEN will need to temporarily close some of the adjoining roads to through-traffic.  Work at these locations will take place on weekends only to minimise disruption and access to properties will be maintained at all times.

How are we keeping people informed?

All the locations and traffic management plans for the work are being clearly signposted in advance, so road users are clear about how the changes may affect their journey. Road signs will remain in place for the duration of the work.

SPEN have written to all affected residents and business to inform them of the project and outline the work.

In addition, SPEN has set up direct communications channels for anyone with questions or concerns about the works. To raise any issues, please call the dedicated hotline on 0800 138 5540 (between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday) or email [email protected]

Social media messaging is also being posted through both SPEN’s and the council’s channels, ahead of the start of the project, and throughout works, to keep people up to date.

To see all street works being carried out by SPEN as well as other companies in the area, real-time updates are available at: https://one.network/