Essential work is to be carried out in an area of Aberdeen as part of a new housing development.

As a result, a section of the Mugiemoss Road is to close for up to four months to allow the works to be undertaken.

Contractors for Barratt Homes will effectively create a new road on the old road, while utilities companies will be installing new services, including new sewer, water and gas pipes, electricity and communications cables, and street lighting connections, as well as building a new footway.

Delays on surrounding roads, including Auchmill Road, the Parkway and Scotstown Road, as well as at the Haudagain roundabout, are likely. There will also be a need for either a one-way system or other types of traffic restriction for a proposed eight week period after the closure.

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Mugiemoss Road is being reconstructed and services for the new housing development are being installed under the road. The new sewers will run down the centre of the carriageway, with a new gas main being installed under the road for the new housing scheme.

Scotia Gas Networks will start work ahead of the road closure by removing boundary walls along Mugiemoss Road to allow them to begin laying their replacement gas main off-road.

Elsewhere, the road is being rebuilt and realigned, with a spur formed for the future development site to the north of Mugiemoss Road. The footways will be rebuilt and the road resurfaced, while the existing Mugiemoss Road will become a residential access road for the properties fronting onto Mugiemoss Road and for the new development. It will no longer be a through route, meaning a new road is being constructed around the new housing development.

The new road is being built to take account of the extra traffic generated by the development and will go round the scheme to the River Don and tie in with Stoneywood Road.

(JP/IT)