Main road in Wisbech set for urgent repair work this evening

A main road in Wisbech will be undergoing urgent repair work this evening.

Cambridgeshire Highways will be repairing potholes and rutting on Cromwell Road from 9pm this evening.

The section of the road is outside Tesco and work will take place under temporary traffic lights and is expected to be completed by tomorrow morning.

Councillor Alex Beckett, chair of the highways and transport committee at Cambridgeshire County Council, said: “There has been an issue with this location, relating to a Section 278 agreement with Tesco, which hasn’t been resolved for a number of years.

“Currently, Tesco is responsible for the maintenance of this junction, and it is important that Tesco meets its obligations to their customers and road users.

"Our highways development team are working with them to bring the site up to standard, so it can then be handed over to us, as the highway authority.

“Unfortunately, the road is now in a state where we’re concerned, so we’ll be temporarily fixing the road tonight until Tesco schedule the full works. We will be reclaiming our costs from Tesco for this.

“We’re carrying out the works overnight and using temporary traffic lights to minimise the disruption as we’re aware there are other roadworks nearby.”