News on Armley Gyratory

Starting from 8pm Monday 24 July until 5:30am Thursday 24 August, there will be daily night-time partial closures around the Armley Gyratoryfor surfacing works.

Full diversion routes will be in place during this time and local residents will be contacted this week about how they’re affected.

The highways surfacing works will mark a significant milestone towards phase one construction completion, after the work started in April last year.

The partial closures are planned to coincide with reduced levels of traffic at night and during the school summer holidays.

Leeds City Council’s Connecting Leeds team are working hard to deliver these improvements as quickly as possible during the summer holidays and apologise for some significant night-time disruption to journeys over the coming weeks.

The road will re-open during the daytime with 30mph speed limits and other traffic management measures in place to allow improvements to be carried out safely.

To prepare for these partial closures, Leeds visitors, workers and residents are being urged to plan ahead (search Plan Ahead Leeds or visit www.leeds.gov.uk/planahead) before travelling and to sign up for regular email updates or follow Connecting Leeds on social media. There will also be highways and diversion signage, with targeted communications in affected areas.

The Armley Gyratory works are complex and the work areas have been segmented into seven parts, as work progresses clockwise around the gyratory, with a total of 19 phases of activity. This includes planing the existing carriageway, ironworks, laying binder, tarmac surfacing and associated white lining.

Because of the scale of the road surfacing, with different work areas and days, it will need different diversions and local access plans. Please also note that the work schedule and activity is weather dependant and could change or delay work taking place.You can see the full schedule of works on this link: https://armleygyratory.commonplace.is/proposals/current-work/step1

Ahead of the night-time partial road closures:

• Please plan ahead and travelling early to allow plenty of time for your journey (search Plan Ahead Leeds or visit www.leeds.gov.uk/planahead), which has all the different daily diversion routes.

• Advanced warning signage at each road closure point informing the public of expected closures, times, and durations.

• Please check bus services via https://www.wymetro.com/buses/

• Emergency services have been informed.

Additional travel advice for residents within the boundary of the closure (e.g., Leeds city centre, City Island, Leeds Waterside Apartments, and businesses close to Armley).

During the partial closures:

• Plans are in place to support safe crossing through the site for walking or cycling.

• All road closure points will have a secure barrier, attended by a traffic management operative, to allow safe access / egress through site.

• For safety we have put in place escort operatives and vehicles, to allow access through the site by escorting vehicles to their designated areas at a controlled speed.

Stanningley Bypass works and diversions

Works will also take place on Stanningley Bypass during the school summer holidays, with reduced levels of traffic allowing the works to progress as quickly as possible.

From 8am Thursday 27 July until 6am Monday 21 August 2023 road works will take place along the Eastbound A647 Stanningley Bypass. The traffic management will be set up 24/7 between those dates.

To complete this work efficiently and for the safety of all road users, it will require a partial closure of the bypass and some of the access/slip roads, with local diversions. A contraflow system (between Dawson’s Corner roundabout and Swinnow Bridge) will be in operation.

These planned works are part of Leeds City Council’s highway annual maintenance programme. It will complement the successful Westbound joint and resurfacing programme, delivered during 2022.

To minimise potential future disruptions, the council are also looking to allow the maintenance of other services (like street lighting, for example) where it is safe to do so, and within the traffic management set up.