Temporary traffic lights have been installed and after the Easter weekend and subject to some underground service cables being diverted, the construction programme requires Foxby Hill to be closed for two weeks.

An alternative diversion route will be suitably signed via Lea Road, Ashcroft Road, A631 and Heapham Road South, back to Foxby Lane.

When the temporary traffic management arrangements are completed at this junction improvement, the Lea Road/Ashcroft Road/Carr Lane junction will start. The proposed new roundabout will be constructed within four phases, the first being the demolition of the former Edlington Works.

Lincolnshire County Council are the major funders of the project, and area highways manager Steve Wiles said: “This longer scheme will be constructed under a series of traffic management arrangements, operating during these works.

“There will be periods of working within temporary traffic lights and another period when Ashcroft Road, at the Lea Road end is closed to traffic. The details will be updated and issued through the local media.”

When the Edlington’s Roundabout is completed, the right turn ban on vehicles coming over the River Trent Bridge onto Lea Road will be put in place and traffic directed down to the new Thorndike Roundabout.

He said: “Other planned improvements for the town include two new puffin crossings on Corringham Road, an improved footway/cycleway along with the provision of a new right turn lane off Corringham Road.

“This package of measures has been considered in respect to the new roundabout on Corringham Road which will serve as the new access for the Gainsborough Education Village.”

Gainsborough Town Centre Manager Joanna Walker added: “Essential work on this scale is bound to cause some disruption but the message is very much that Gainsborough is open for business and we will be doing all we can to bring in these improvements as smoothly as possible.”