Hampshire County Council is planning temporary road closures on many of the damaged roads in and around Andover and the county as part of Operation Resilience over the next 12 months.
The works order is from Tuesday 1st April 2014 for a period of “12 months or until completion of works, whichever is sooner“.
Diversions will be in operation and notices will be displayed prior to the actual closures.
If you have any queries regarding the diversion or works please contact the Highways Department on behalf of Hampshire County Council, telephone 0845 603 5633 or email operation.resillience@hants.gov.uk.
For all other enquiries please contact Mr. Mayur Patel, telephone 01264 368727 on behalf of the Head of Planning Policy & Transport Service.
Roads to be Closed
| Road | Parish | From | To |
| Chantry Street | Andover Town(St Marys) | West Street | Marlborough Street |
| Old Winton Road | Andover Town (Winton) | Its whole length | |
| C87 | Barton Stacey | A303 | Bullington Lane |
| Roberts Road | Barton Stacey | Its whole length | |
| Topliss Hill | Thruxton | A338 Salisbury Road | Racedown Farm, Thruxton Down |
| A343 Salisbury Road | Nether Wallop – Over Wallop | B3084 Romsey Road | Ringwold Drove |
Thank you to Cllr Tony Hooke for the update.
I am not impressed at all with Hampshire County Council and this operation resilience resurfacing work. During the last fortnight in our local area (Hedge End Road) we have been subjected to the constant noise of roadsweepers (even on a Sunday morning at 7:30am) lorries going up and down, hooters, noise and then the ridiculous signs that say a road will be closed and then they don’t turn up and decide to turn up two days later causing havoc for all concerned. We have had no bus service for two days 20/21 March as our bus route involves both Leigh Road and Dunmow Roads which were resurfaced together! The road service left afterwards is disgraceful and looks worse than it did in the first place and why resurface Charnwood Close when it didn’t need it? No thought for the disabled and elderly that don’t drive and rely on public transport. Shall I go on? I realise that roads have to be resurfaced but why close whole roads at at time, can they not do a contra flow system and keep open one lane? Now we face Old Winton Rd being shut, no bus service again and Chantry street where the 4/4A Bus stop is located what happens if you shut this road. Hampshire County Council you are wasting money and in the autumn you’ll cut our bus service because you’ll say you have no funding for it and yet you can waste huge amounts covering roads in a sticky mess that didn’t need it!
The road surface they have been using on south end road and areas around is shocking, the company RMS have missed out a parking space in Neville close. What a waste of taxs payers money. Why not get a proper road surface put in rather than a cheap budget one!!
we had similar problems they put signs everywhere, covered all the drains then disappeared for over 24 hours, thank god we didn’t have any rain because there wasn’t anywhere for the water to run off. They closed Bere hill off completely so we were marooned but i was told we could get in and out on the new surface if we needed to which begs the question why did they totally close the only entrances if it wasn’t necessary. It was absolute chaos when people arriving home at the end of the day to find they couldn’t get into their road and had to park anywhere.
The height of the new surface now means all the drains and manholes are quite low so its like the road is now covered in potholes which we didn’t have before! I know the letter we had through the door said the surface would look unfinished until it had weathered in and been driven over but it seems to be taking far longer to settle then what traditional chipping methods used to take.