The village of Forth is about to profit from an extra £116,000 in highway and footway enhancements.
In consequence, the A706, Fundamental Avenue, will probably be closed to all visitors (besides emergency automobiles) between Ravenswood and Kirk Inexperienced from Monday, August 1 for 2 weeks.
It will enable groups to undertake a bundle of repairs and resurfacing to enhance the £26,000 footway enchancment mission already underway between Ravenswood and Climpy Highway.
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A completely signed diversion route will probably be in place and work is scheduled to complete by 6pm on Friday, August 12.
Pedestrian entry for residents and people utilizing native outlets will probably be maintained all through, nevertheless there will probably be no automobile entry to the gas station in the course of the closure interval.
Plans are additionally in place to undertake an extra £67,000 bundle of footway enhancements between Kirk Inexperienced and Hawkswood when the works on the highway are full.
Councillor Robert Brown, chair of the neighborhood and enterprise assets committee apologised for the inevitable inconvenience the highway closure would trigger.
He added: “It goes with out saying that any highway closure of a most important route, similar to this one via Forth, will deliver disruption, and we very a lot admire the endurance and understanding of the area people whereas we supply out this work.
“Bettering and sustaining the journey and transport infrastructure within the rural space is a key goal for each the roads service and the council.
“With a complete funding amounting to greater than £200,000 in roads and pavements in and across the village centre, I genuinely hope that the long-term achieve outweighs any short-term ache these works would possibly create.”