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  • Kit Spring 2025
  • Road Closure Extension – 20/03/2025 to 01/04/2025

    From LCC –

    (A5147 GORSUCH LANE, SCARISBRICK,
    HALSALL ROAD, NEW STREET, MILL BROW, HALSALL, SOUTHPORT ROAD,
    WANISHAR LANE, DELF LANE, MAIRSCOUGH LANE, DOWNHOLLAND, WEST
    LANCASHIRE) (TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF THROUGH TRAFFIC) ORDER
    2025, is hereby temporarily Amended in that:
    i. To amend Article 3 as follows:
    The prohibition will be operative daily between 0930 hours and 1500 hours from
    Thursday 20th March 2025 until Tuesday 1
    st April 2025. The prohibitions will
    only be operative when indicated on site by the presence of the
    appropriate traffic signs in accordance with The Traffic Signs Regulations
    and General Directions 2016. Works are weather dependent and may not
    be carried out on the dates specified.

    Please find attached for your records, a copy of the signed temporary road closure extension order for the closure which will now be in place until Tuesday 1st April 2025 to enable the completion of the carriageway surface dressing patching works to be undertaken by Lancashire County Council (works been delayed due to part of the area being worked on forming part of the diversion route for the emergency road closure on Carr Moss Lane, Halsall).

    https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/roads-parking-and-travel/roads/roadworks-and-traffic-regulation-orders

  • A5147 Closure for surface dressing

    Daily from 0930 hours to 1500 hours
    from Thursday 20th March 2025 until Friday 28th March 2025

    The temporary prohibition is necessary to allow carriageway surface dressing
    works to be carried out.

    Vehicular access for residents will be maintained whenever and wherever possible. Pedestrian access to properties will always be maintained.

    An alternative route for vehicular traffic affected by the closure is via:-A570 Southport Road – Liverpool Road North – A59 Northway – A59 Liverpool
    Road – A59 Holborn Hill – A59 County Road – Southport Road and vice versa

About Downholland

The Civil Parish of Downholland lies in the southwestern corner of West Lancashire, it includes the village of Haskayne and the settlements of Barton and Downholland Cross as well as scattered farmhouses and cottages.

Haskayne contains a beautiful park next to the canal, featuring a BMX track, football pitch and lots of play equipment. Winner of “Best Park in Lancashire” – Lancashire Best Kept Village 2019/2020.

There is a thriving village school, three public houses,a village hall hosting a number of community activities and we have an active Community Association and Residents Association.

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Downholland has a total area of 12 square miles most of which is prime agricultural land. The nearest towns are Southport, seven miles to the west and Ormskirk five miles to the east. Liverpool is about 12 miles away. The population of about 1000 is employed in the surrounding towns and cities or on the land. The Leeds and Liverpool canal runs through the parish.