Cheshire East Council has said it will look at ways of shortening the Crewe road closures, reducing congestion and improving road signage - following a meeting with a parish council.

The Minshull Vernon and District Parish Council, covering the Parishes of Leighton and Woolstanwood - met with Cheshire East Highways and Contractors Balfour Beaty on June 17.

Crewe and Nantwich MP, Dr Kieran Mullan, was also present at the meeting.

The A530 Middlewich Road has been closed from the junction of Pyms Lane since May 9 (Crewe Nub News).

The A530 Middlewich Road from the junctions of Pyms Lane and Smithy Lane, has been closed since May 9 for the NWCP works.

Due to these works, ambulances were having to make 11-minute detour to take emergency patients to Crewe hospital - via the diversion routes.

Earlier this month, Bentley Motors agreed to reopen Pyms Lane for emergency ambulances - following talks with Cheshire East Council.

This positive news has been followed by the council now looking to shorten the Crewe road closures - as well as looking into more ways to help traffic.

Emergency vehicles can now comew through the Bentley Motors campus on Pyms Lane to get to Leighton Hospital (Jonathan White).

Following the meeting with Minshull Vernon and District Parish Council and Dr Mullan, the council has said that Middlewich Road will be fully open from Coppenhall Lane, Crewe roundabout to Smithy Lane (by Leighton Hospital) from October 2022.

Cheshire East say a short section of Middlewich Road from Smithy Lane to Flowers Lane will be single lane or fully closed from October 2022 to March 2023.

The council's Highways will also look at making Minshull New Road (from the Pyms Lane roundabout to West Street) and Frank Webb Avenue (from Badger Avenue to West Street) to be one way.

This aims alleviate the congestion.

Cheshire East Council has said that Middlewich Road will be fully open from Coppenhall Lane, Crewe roundabout, to Smithy Lane from October 2022 (Ryan Parker).

The Parish Council and the MP say they will lobby the Council planners to allow a lot more weekend working to speed up the completion of the work.

There will be a sign at the Smithy Lane roundabout directing traffic to the hospital.

Shortly, members of the public will be able to visit the developer's site to view progress.

The whole road works scheme was expected to take approximately 80 weeks from the start of the closure on May 9.

Middlewich Road will only be closed for part of that time.

Excavation work behind Smithy Lane. Cheshire East say a short section of Middlewich Road from Smithy Lane to Flowers Lane will be single lane or fully closed from October 2022 to March 2023 (Jonathan White).

A full programme of works will follow very soon.

Cheshire East Council released its first North West Crewe Package newsletter on Thursday (June 23).

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