Boston Road South, Holbeach: road to be excavated after investigation

Signs and cones on a road.

The road is about to be dug up to get the repair programme underway.

Boston Road South in Holbeach is about to be excavated after the conclusion of initial investigations by LCC and Anglian Water into what caused the recent sinkhole and forced the closure of the route. 

In the area from the Holbeach primary school to Cecil Pywell avenue, the first phase of works will be undertaken by Anglian Water (AW) and is expected to start this Thursday (May 19).

It’s expected that this part of the underground works will take four weeks to complete. Residents in the immediate area will be kept up to date with the work progress via letters to each property from AW.

Whilst these works are underway, LCC will also work in partnership with AW to carry out other jobs in this part of the road that would otherwise have been carried out at another time.

Once AW has completed its work LCC will put in place its repair and rebuild strategy for the road.

We expect to be able to update on these council works in the first week in June and at that time we will have a better expectation for a defined end date for when the road will be fully reopened.

Cllr Richard Davies, executive member for highways at LCC said: 

“With our partners at AW being able to progress it gives us the added opportunity to get as much ‘other’ work done as possible without adding more time onto this very difficult issue. 

“This situation is far from ideal but in this unique case we and our partners have had to investigate the area as much as possible before any excavation could begin.

"Thankfully it now appears that the works can progress and we will continue to work extremely hard to get this road up and running again.

“As ever, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone effected by this situation for their patience and understanding around the issues that need to be overcome and resolved.”

For the latest information on road closures and works happening on the road network across Lincolnshire visit: www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/roadworks.

Published: 17th May 2022