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07/09/2021

Upgrade And Improvement Works To Start In Wick

Scottish Water is to start upgrade and improvement works in Wick.

Traffic will be temporarily prohibited from a number of roads in the north and south of the Caithness town.

Vehicular traffic will be temporarily prohibited from using the following roads in the north of Wick:

U3407 Ackergill Crescent, U3443 Anderson Drive, U3473 Bay View, U3500 Coach Road, U3502 Corner Crescent, U3517 Dunnet Avenue, U3520 Girnigoe Street, U3523 Glamis Road, U3532 Green Road, U3547 Henrietta Street, U3551 Hill Avenue, U3572 Kirk Lane, U3577 Leishman Avenue, U3580 Leith Walk, U3628 Owen Place, U3652 Sinclair Drive, U3647 Victoria Place, U3658 Waverley Road, U3678 Tollbooth Lane, U5507 Anderson Lane and the U5511 Mowat Lane.

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The closures will take effect between 8am on 6 September and 6pm on 16 December 2021.

Vehicular traffic will also be temporarily prohibited from using the following roads in the south of Wick:

C1073 Macrae Street, U2388 Oldwick Road, U3431 Albert Street, U3455 Argyle Square, U3467 Barrogill Street, U3476 Beaufoy Street, U3479 Bexley Terrace, U3485 Breadalbane Terrace and Breadalbane Crescent, U3488 Brown Place, U3497 Cairndhuna Terrace, U3508 Dempster Street, U3511 Lower Dunbar Street, U3514 Upper Dunbar Street, U3529 Grant Street, U3541 Harrow Hill, U3544 Harrow Terrace, U3560 Huddart Street, U3563 Kennedy Terrace, U3569 Kinnaird Street, U3583 Loch Street, U3597 Malcolm Street, U3610 Moray Street, U3614 Murchison Street, U3620 Nicolson Street, U3624 North Murchison Street, U3641 Rutherford Street, U3653 Sinclair Terrace, U3654 Smith Terrace, U3656 Vansittart Street and the U3660 Wellington Street.

The closures in the south will also take effect between 8am on 6 September and 6pm on 16 December 2021.

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