WORK that aims to improve pedestrian and cycling facilities along a road in Broadstone is due to start later this month.

Dunyeats Road will be closed westbound from Gravel Hill towards Broadstone for around six weeks.

BCP Council wants to widen and resurface the existing pavement on the north side of Dunyeats Road to create a shared pedestrian and cycle route.

The scheme is set to benefit children and parents travelling to the first and middle schools on that road, as well as Poole Grammar School.

The work is due to start on Monday, July 22, and be completed on Tuesday, September 3.

A series of full road closures will be in force at certain points during the work.

The road will be shut from Broadstone Roundabout to the parking bays next to the shops for two nights (7pm-6am) from Tuesday, July 30, until Thursday, August 1.

Then, on August 1 and 2, the road will be closed all day at the Tudor Road junctions.

From Saturday, August 17, until Monday 19 it will be shut from Tudor Road to Lower Golf Links Road.

From Tuesday, August 27, until Thursday 29 it will be closed between Lower Golf Links Road and Broadstone Middle School.

And from Friday, August 30, until Sunday, September 1, it will be shut between the middle school and Gravel Hill.

A diversion will be in place via Gravel Hill, Darby's Corner Roundabout, and the B3074 Lower Blandford Road.

The current one-way traffic on Tudor Road will become two-way during the work.

The new pedestrian and cycle route will link to the wider network that includes the Castleman Trailway, Poole town centre, Merley and Wimborne.

Two new pedestrian crossings will be created near the first school, one next to the Tudor Road junction and one next to Station Approach. The existing pedestrian crossing outside the first school will be removed.

The council also says improvements will be made to the junctions with Tudor Road, Lower Golf Links Road, Upper Golf Links Road, and the access road leading to Broadstone Cemetery to give priority to pedestrians and cyclists.

The road will also be re-surfaced.

Creating the widened footpath will see the speed camera on the north side of the road, near the middle school, removed.