MOTORISTS are being urged to find alternative routes while emergency sewer works take place near Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Wessex Water will be completing the works over three days from 9.30am on Wednesday, July 19.

The repairs will take place on the A3060 Castle Lane East, with lane closures affecting eastbound traffic either side of the Cooper Dean Roundabout.

A Wessex Water spokesperson said: “We’re sorry for any traffic delays caused by this urgent and essential work on our sewer network.”

The water company are advising drivers to allow extra time for their journeys or to use alternative routes, if possible.

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A multi-million pound link road was approved this year to create an alternative route for staff, deliveries and potentially emergency vehicles at Bournemouth hospital.

The scheme, which was due to begin this May and completed by the end of the year, aims to take traffic pressure away from Castle Lane East.

Wessex Water also recently closed roads and implemented temporary traffic signals in Castle Lane West, at the beginning of July.

Works took place opposite the junction with Haverstock Road, to excavate to relay a sewer, for five days from July 3.

The road was closed with temporary traffic lights while Wessex Water also conducted investigative works.

During the same period, Kinson Park Road was disrupted by temporary lights while the water company excavated a sewer.