Series of closures for weeks on A453 for work on HS2

Motorists in Sutton Coldfield face weeks of road chaos as major road closures loom for the next two months. The main A453 route between the town and Tamworth will have a series of closures for construction work to continue on the HS2 high speed rail line.

Despite the northern leg being scrapped, the controversial line still being developed north of the city to just south of Handsacre where trains will go back on the West Coast mainline. 

The route travels from Birmingham to Water Orton and on through Staffordshire.

It crosses the A453 Sutton Road between Bassetts Pole near Sutton Coldfield  and Mike Oak in Tamworth. But that road will soon cross the proposed rail line. 

To enable works to be carried out a section of the A453 Sutton Road and Drayton Lane, which runs off it will see a series of closures. The A453 Sutton Road will shut overnight between 8pm to 6am every night from next Monday (February 12) to Sunday (March 31).

It will also close for two whole weekends from 8pm on Friday, March 8 to 6am on Monday, March 11. And from 8pm on Friday, March 15, to 6am on Monday, March 18.

While Drayton Lane will be shut from 8pm to 6am from Monday, February 26 t March 1, and also from Monday, March 4 to Friday, March 8, from Monday, March 11 to Friday, March 22 and from Monday, March 25 to Friday, March 29.