Chelmsford Roadworks This Week: A130 Shut and Queen Street

Where Chelmsford roadworks stand on Tuesday 10 November, checked that day against the closure report, the orders, the scheme pages and the bus notices.

The A130 northbound shuts for a weekend, from 8pm on Friday 13 November to 6am on Monday 16 November. First Bus says the closure is for Essex County Council “highway improvement works”. Its X10 and X30 towards Stansted divert via Main Road and Southend Road, and it warns that “delays are likely to occur”. Buses towards Basildon and Southend run as normal (First Bus). The notice does not say which stretch closes. The county’s A130 resurfacing order allows phased closures along the whole road through the district (see below), but neither the order nor Essex Highways gives the weekend’s exact limits, so follow the signs.

The four-way lights at New London Road and Writtle Road should go tonight. First Bus says UK Power Networks’ permit ends at 11pm on Tuesday 10 November (First Bus). The London Road Bridge lights, on the same road, stay in place.

Queen Street, off Moulsham Street, shuts for five days from Monday 16 November. The council has now made the order: 20m from Moulsham Street, for a UK Power Networks connection, with traffic sent via the B1007, Southborough Road and Moulsham Street (Essex County Council notice, Essex Chronicle, 6 November 2026).

Roxwell Bridge on Stonehill Road: about 20 weeks from Monday 26 October. Essex Highways’ scheme page still gave that start when we read it on Tuesday 10 November, with no progress update, so we cannot confirm from the page that work has begun. The signed diversion runs via Skreens Park Road, Dukes Lane, School Lane, Dunmow Road, the A1060, Salta Green and Vicarage Road.

The A12 has no full closure near Chelmsford this week. The southbound resurfacing nights between Marks Tey and Boreham ended on Friday 6 November. This week brings only overnight slip road closures near Chelmsford (see the A12 section).

Roxwell Bridge: about 20 weeks from 26 October

Essex Highways’ scheme page for Roxwell Bridge on Stonehill Road read the same on Thursday 5 November as it had on 25, 27 and 31 October:

• “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the start of these works has been postponed.”
• “The scheme will now commence on 26 October 2026”, and “is expected to take approximately 20 weeks to complete”, including “a planned two-week break over the December holiday period”
• both the pedestrian and vehicle bridges are closed throughout
• the diversion: Skreens Park Road, Dukes Lane, School Lane, Dunmow Road, the A1060, Salta Green and Vicarage Road, and the same in reverse, with routes for emergency vehicles too
• buses: the stops in The Street, south east of the bridge, close for the scheme, with a temporary stop at the junction of Skreens Park Road, Boyton Cross Lane and Stonehill Road, and “a shuttle service in place for service users”
• walking: safe pedestrian routes kept open where possible, and temporary parking nearby for parents

The page gives no reason for the delay from its first date of 12 October, no end date and no progress update, and warns that “dates may change due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances” (Essex Highways). Twenty weeks from 26 October, with the Christmas break inside it, points to the middle of March, but that is our arithmetic, not a date the council has given. We have still not found a traffic order for the closure in the Essex notices published in October or on 4 November. The new deck will be fibre reinforced polymer, which the council says is a first for an Essex bridge.

The A12 this week and next

National Highways’ scheme page for the A12 Chelmsford to Colchester maintenance still describes “essential resurfacing work on the A12 southbound between Marks Tey and Hatfield Peverel over three nights starting Wednesday 4 November 2026”. Its closure report booked the last of those nights, junction 25 to junction 19 southbound, for 9pm on Friday 6 November to 5am on Saturday 7 November, and lists no more of them (National Highways).

What the closure report books to Sunday 15 November

National Highways publishes a seven-day closure report as a spreadsheet, one sheet per day. The edition on its page when we read it on Tuesday 10 November starts on Monday 9 November and runs to Sunday 15 November (National Highways).

Near Chelmsford, from tonight, it lists:

Night	Closure	Hours	Why
Tuesday 10 to Friday 13 November	A120 both ways, West Street to Colchester Road, Coggeshall	8pm to 6am each night	Listed as a carriageway closure with a diversion
Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 November	A12 southbound exit slip at junction 17	9pm to 5am each night	Verge cutting and planting
Tuesday 10 November	A12 northbound entry slips at junction 16, then junction 17	9pm to 11pm, then 11pm to 1am	Verge cutting and planting
Wednesday 11 November	A12 northbound entry slip at junction 18, then its exit slip	1am to 3am, then 3am to 5am	Verge cutting and planting
Wednesday 11 November	A12 northbound exit slip at junction 20A, Hatfield Peverel	12.01am Wednesday to 2am Thursday	Listed under the cutting and planting scheme
Wednesday 11 November	A12 northbound entry slip at junction 19, Boreham	9pm to 11.59pm	Verge cutting and planting
Thursday 12 November	A12 northbound entry slip at junction 21, Hatfield Peverel	2am to 5am	Verge cutting and planting
Thursday 12 November	A12 northbound entry and exit slips at junction 22, Witham, then the junction 23 exit slip	9pm to 5am, in turns	Verge cutting and planting

The report still prints the junction 20A exit slip closure as a 26 hour span, from 12.01am on 11 November to 2am on 12 November, which sits oddly in a run of short overnight slip closures, so check it on the day. The Coggeshall nights matter because the A120 is the A12’s usual diversion. From Friday the slip closures move north, beyond Kelvedon, and the only weekend carriageway closure listed is between junctions 27 and 28 at Colchester. National Highways warns the list can change, so check the report on the day.

What the order allows

The statutory notice National Highways published in the Essex Chronicle on 20 August took effect on 1 September and allows all of this between junction 19 and junction 25:

• a 50mph speed limit, for 24 hours a day, on both carriageways and all slip roads
• all lay-bys closed, for 24 hours a day
• full weekend closures, 9pm Friday to 5am Monday, of varying lengths, starting on or after Friday 4 September
• overnight closure of the A12 northbound exit slip at junction 20A, Hatfield Peverel, 8pm to 5am, starting on or after Monday 28 September

The order runs for a maximum of 18 months or until the work is finished, whichever comes first (National Highways notice, Essex Chronicle, 20 August 2026).

Two things are worth being precise about. A traffic order is permission, not a timetable: the notice says the restrictions apply only where and when traffic signs show them. And no full weekend closure, the 9pm Friday to 5am Monday kind, has appeared on any closure report we have read. The November resurfacing closures were nights, not a weekend, and they ended on 7 November. The 50mph limit is the part that does not end with them: the order sets it for about three months from 1 September, which points to about the end of November, and the scheme page says nothing about it.

The A12 widening is still cancelled

For years the answer to A12 congestion around Chelmsford was the junction 19 to junction 25 widening scheme: two lanes to three, junctions 20a, 20b and 23 removed, two bypasses, roughly £1.2 billion. It received development consent on 12 January 2024.

It was then cancelled. National Highways’ page for the scheme reads: “Following the conclusion of the Spending Review, the Government has taken the decision to cancel the A12 Chelmsford to A120 scheme,” in an update dated 1 August 2025 (National Highways).

What replaced it is smaller and local. Essex county councillors approved the £38 million Beaulieu Access Package on 31 July 2026, upgrading the A12 and the Beaulieu Park station roundabout. The council says it “comes after the government cancelled its scheme to widen the A12”, and that most of the money will come from Homes England, National Highways and developer contributions (Essex County Council).

Essex Highways’ page for that package said on 5 November that it is finalising designs, aiming to tender the junction 19 scheme “at the end of this year/early 2027”, and that the roundabout upgrade could “potentially begin in 2028” (Essex Highways).

Off the list since last week

These have run past their published dates. None has a completion notice, so treat them as finished only once you have seen the road clear:

• Mildmay Road and Rochford Road, Moulsham: Essex and Suffolk Water’s 33-day order ended on Friday 30 October. It also suspended the one-way rule in Hall Street, so check the signs there before you drive the grid the old way
• Chelmsford Road, Chelmer Village: the westbound contraflow’s nine days ended on Sunday 1 November
• Patching Hall Lane: the four-day UK Power Networks closure ended on Saturday 31 October
• Southend Road, Great Baddow: the UK Power Networks closure’s 19 days ran out on Friday 6 November
• St Nazaire Road: the one-day Essex County Council closure was on Friday 6 November
• New London Road at Writtle Road: UK Power Networks’ four-way lights were permitted until 11pm on Tuesday 10 November
• Remembrance Sunday: the city-centre and village closures for the parades were on Sunday 8 November
• Chatham Hall Lane, the Walthams, and Fountain Road, Good Easter: both Openreach closures were due to end on Thursday 5 November
• Hulls Lane, Sandon, and Chatham Green, Little Waltham: the Openreach closures that began on 2 and 3 November ended on Wednesday 4 November
• Swiss Avenue and Kings Road: Cadent’s gas main programme ran to Monday 12 October, and its news listings carried nothing newer for Chelmsford on 5 November
• Broomfield Road: Cadent’s programme ended on 23 August, and First Bus gave the closure as ending on 24 August

The A130: an order with no dates yet

Essex County Council’s made order Streetworks SW15, published on Thursday 22 October, lets its contractor close the A130 through Chelmsford’s own district and south to Canvey Way, in phases, for carriageway resurfacing:

• the whole road: southbound from the Gingerbreadhall Bridge roundabout to Bowers Gifford, about 13,960 metres, and northbound from Canvey Way to the Gingerbreadhall Bridge roundabout, about 13,980 metres
• north of Rettendon: about 8,655 metres southbound and 8,870 metres northbound, through Galleywood, Sandon, the Hanningfields, Rettendon and Runwell
• south of Rettendon: about 5,255 metres southbound and 5,510 metres northbound, to the Canvey Way junctions
• the southbound slip at Rettendon from the A132 Runwell Road, about 460 metres

Each stretch has its own signed alternative, using roads including the A12, the A127, the A1245 and the A132. The order says the work is “scheduled to commence after 22nd October 2026, as stated on a valid permit”, and gives no dates and no hours for any phase (Essex County Council notice, 22 October 2026). Essex Highways has no scheme page for the job, so we cannot tell you whether a phase is under way. If you use the A130 to reach Wickford, Basildon or Southend, watch for the advance warning signs. Separately, a temporary 40mph limit applies around the Rettendon Turnpike on 12 nights from 17 November (see the table below).

London Road Bridge: still on traffic lights, still no date

The longest-running restriction in the city is on New London Road. Essex Highways installed temporary two-way traffic lights on 24 June 2025 to reduce loading on a defective cast iron beam beneath the bus lane. The scheme page, re-read on 5 November, says priority has been given to vehicles “travelling on New London Road, from Parkway and Bellmead”.

The Park and Ride bus stop on New London Road, in front of Grosvenor House opposite the Job Centre, is still suspended. Walking over the bridge and use of the river beneath it are unaffected.

More than a year on there is still no repair date. Essex Highways is “designing and assessing the feasibility of repair options”, the bridge is Grade II listed so Listed Building Consent is needed first, and “at this stage, a completion date cannot be determined as it is dependent on the outcome of the design and approval process” (Essex Highways). If you route through the south of the city centre at peak times, plan as though those lights are permanent, because for now they are.

Army and Navy: buying land, construction now given as 2028

The Army and Navy Sustainable Transport Package is real, funded and consented. It is also years away.

What is in it:

• A hamburger roundabout, a roundabout with a road through the centre of it
• A 350-space expansion of Sandon Park and Ride
• A new northbound bus lane on Princes Road, and better bus priority both ways on Parkway
• Walking and cycling improvements on the junction and its approaches

Chelmer Valley Park and Ride will not be expanded. Essex Highways dropped it from the package in March 2026.

The cost is £81 million, of which the Department for Transport conditionally committed £68.75 million in October 2023. Planning permission came in November 2024 and the government confirmed the scheme could proceed in July 2025. The project is now “in the process of securing the land needed”.

All summer the scheme page gave two different timetables. It now gives one. The FAQ answer that said construction “is expected to start in 2027 and be completed in 2029” has gone, and the page now carries no mention of 2027 at all. What remains is that construction “is scheduled to start in 2028 and is expected to be completed in 2031”, subject to final funding approval and other agreements (Essex Highways).

So the answer to the only question drivers ask is plain: nothing is due to be built at the Army and Navy this year or next.

What is shut now, and what starts in November

These are the Chelmsford City closures from the Essex County Council orders published up to and including the Essex Chronicle notices of 6 November, plus the First Bus notices, read on 10 November.

Openreach’s short village closures carry on through November. In the city itself, Queen Street off Moulsham Street shuts from 16 November, and Colchester Road in Chelmer Village has two nights from 18 November. The council made both orders in the notices of 6 November (Essex County Council notice, Essex Chronicle, 6 November 2026; Essex County Council notice, Essex Chronicle, 22 October 2026; Basildon Echo, 22 October 2026; Essex Chronicle, 29 October 2026).

Start dates on statutory notices are the earliest date the order can be used, not a promise the cones appear that morning. Essex County Council says on each one that the dates may vary and that the live position is shown on one.network.

Advertised, but with no dates yet

Two rolling orders cover long lists of Chelmsford roads with no dates attached. The council says only that “exact dates will be specified on one.network”, and that residents get a letter or leaflet before their phase starts. The newest, which took effect on 3 September, is the one to know about, because it names some of the busiest roads in the district:

• Essex Regiment Way, Little Waltham, Broomfield and Springfield, 4,155m from the Sheepcotes roundabout to the Nabbotts Farm roundabout, plus the Wheelers Farm, Pratts Farm and Channels Drive roundabouts
• Broomfield Road and Main Road, Broomfield, 745m from Patching Hall Lane to Vellacotts, and Valley Bridge, 870m to Broomfield Road
• Writtle Road, Chelmsford Road, Bridge Street and The Green, Writtle, 1,445m from Ongar Road to Longacre
• Wood Street, Chelmsford, 870m from Galleywood Road to the Wood Street roundabout
• Channels Drive, Broomfield and Chelmsford Garden Community, 490m to Albatross Way
• School Lane, Broomfield, 320m; Lodge Road, Writtle, 105m
• Downham Road, Stock and West Hanningfield, 2,450m; Rettendon Road, The Tye and The Common, East Hanningfield, 1,685m; Creekview Road and Broughton Road, South Woodham Ferrers, 780m

An earlier order, in force since 20 August, covers Main Road and Dunmow Road, Great Waltham (4,155m), Thames Avenue (545m), Chignal Road (535m) and Wicklow Avenue (400m) on the same terms. A separate Gigaclear order covers Mill Road and Fountain Road, Good Easter.

The 7.5 tonne weight limit on Main Road, Broomfield and Broomfield Road, from the Valley Bridge junction to Hospital Approach, is suspended while closures under the 3 September rolling order run, so lorries normally banned from that stretch may use it then.

The 29 October notices added a fourteenth rolling order, in force from Thursday 5 November for up to 18 months. Its schedule names one length: Margaretting Road and London Hill, Galleywood, and Maldon Road, about 1,730m from the Stock Road junction to the Swan Lane junction, with a long signed way round via Maldon Road, the A414, the Writtle Bypass roundabout, London Road and the B1007. It also brings in no waiting, loading or stopping on both sides while each phase runs (Essex County Council notice, 29 October 2026).

A fifteenth was advertised on Wednesday 4 November, and would take effect from Thursday 12 November for up to 18 months. It is a proposed order, with exact dates to follow on one.network, and it names these lengths in the district:

• Galleywood Road and Stock Road, Chelmsford, about 1,910m from Wood Street to Watchouse Road, signed via the B1007, A12, A414 and A1114
• Hollow Lane, Broomfield, about 1,200m from School Lane and Patching Hall Lane, signed via Chignal Road, Copperfield Road, Oliver Way and Patching Hall Lane
• Mashbury Road, Chignall St James, about 2,885m from Chignal Hall Chase to Chignal Road
• Chignal Road, Chignal Smealy, about 1,110m from Mashbury Road
• Ongar Road, Highwood, part of about 4,450m from Cooksmill Green to Rookery Road, signed via the A414, A12, A1023 and A128
• Moulsham Hall Lane, Great and Little Leighs, part of about 2,540m from the Great Leighs Bypass to Bartholomew Green Road

(Essex County Council notice, Brentwood Gazette, 4 November 2026)

The Essex Chronicle carried the same No.15 order again on 6 November, alongside a sixteenth for the city’s north east, also proposed, also from 12 November for up to 18 months, with dates to follow on one.network. It names three lengths, all signed via the A1016, A131 and B1137:

• White Hart Lane, Springfield, about 2,050m from the White Hart Lane roundabout to the Nabbotts Farm roundabout
• the New Bowers Way roundabout, Springfield, about 145m from Beaulieu Boulevard
• the New Nabbotts Way roundabout, Chelmsford Garden Community

Both orders also bring in no waiting, loading or stopping on both sides while each phase runs (Essex County Council notice, Essex Chronicle, 6 November 2026).

Two more were advertised on 24 September, each for a single long road:

• Longmead Avenue and Meadgate Avenue, Great Baddow, 1,870m from Baddow Road to Maldon Road, diverted via Maldon Road and the B1009. In force since 17 September
• Inchbonnie Road, South Woodham Ferrers, 1,995m from Ferrers Road to its end, diverted via Ferrers Road. In force from 1 October

Neither gives a date for the closure itself (Essex County Council notice, 24 September 2026).

A414 west of the city: a 50mph limit to be made permanent

The council also proposes to make the current temporary speed limits on the A414 between Ongar and Chelmsford permanent. The longest part is a 50mph limit on Chelmsford Road, Ongar Road and Greenbury Way, about 14.7 kilometres east from the Four Wantz roundabout in Ongar. That takes in the side road mouths at Cooksmill Green, Highwood Road, Margaretting Road and the Hylands estate access road. Nearer Ongar, two stretches would become 40mph.

The objection period, under reference TRAF/8937, ended on 16 October (Essex County Council notice, 24 September 2026).

Long path closures

Four footpath and byway closures in the district run for months rather than days, and none of them shows up on a driving app:

• Footpaths 22 and 23, Chelmsford Garden, closed 1 September 2026 to 1 March 2027 for construction of the Northern Radial Distributor Road. Both run north to Wheelers Hill, 400m and 595m respectively. We have written about what that closure signals in the road that unlocks 10,000 homes
• Byway 25, Great Waltham, closed 17 August to 17 November 2026, 2,155m from Ringtail Green south to Penden Hill, for surface improvement
• Footpath 17, East Hanningfield, closed 18 August 2026 to 18 February 2027, 630m from Footpath 18 south-west to the B1245 Southend Road. The order says the closure is “required for the safety of the public whilst the site of a fire and explosion is made safe”, and that no alternative route is available
• Byway 51, Little Waltham, closed 1 October 2026 to 1 April 2027, 120m from Footpath 40 east to Footpath 42, “because of an unsafe river crossing”. The council says the work “will be carried out in due course”, which is not a start date. The signed way round is north via the B1008 Main Road, east via The Street and Brook Hill, and south via Back Lane (Essex County Council notice, 17 September 2026)

Trains: dried-out clay, and what National Rail lists

GBR Anglia said on Friday 4 September that sustained heat and low rainfall had dried out and shrunk the clay under long stretches of the Essex railway, and that speed restrictions and amended timetables were being applied. The change it announced then was between Southend Victoria and London, not on the Great Eastern Main Line through Chelmsford (Greater Anglia). Greater Anglia’s site refused our read on 5 November, so we cannot say whether anything has changed since. Check before you travel.

No line closure through Chelmsford until 22 November

We worked through National Rail’s own planned incident list on Thursday 5 November. It carries closures as dated pages. In what we read, nothing closes the line between London Liverpool Street and Chelmsford before Sunday 22 November:

• Sunday 8 November: no trains via Lea Bridge on the Hertford East line, which does not touch the Chelmsford route. National Rail points Stratford passengers to Greater Anglia main line trains (National Rail)
• Sunday 22 November: buses replace trains between Colchester and Ingatestone, for journeys to and from London, and between Colchester and Chelmsford for intermediate stations (National Rail)
• Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November: no trains between Shenfield and London Liverpool Street. Trains from Norwich, Ipswich and Clacton run as far as Shenfield via Ingatestone, and buses link Ingatestone with Newbury Park for the Central line. The page does not name Chelmsford, so check your own journey (National Rail)

Park and ride

Two park and ride sites keep a lot of cars out of the centre, and both matter more while the London Road Bridge lights are in.

Sandon Park and Ride, Maldon Road, Sandon, CM2 7RU, has 1,377 spaces, plus 28 disabled bays, 7 parent and child bays and 2 EV charging points. Published hours are Monday to Friday 06:30 to 20:00 and Saturday 07:00 to 19:30. No Sunday service is listed.

Chelmer Valley Park and Ride is north of the city off the A130, and also runs a weekday minibus shuttle to Broomfield Hospital.

The Essex County Council tariff, read on 5 September 2026 (Travel Essex):

The free child travel offer that ran through the summer has gone. Children under 19 are back to £1.00.

Three things people miss:

• There is a 20 minute free period for drop-offs, and the barrier opens on approach because the site reads number plates
• After the park and ride buses finish for the evening, your ticket stays valid on First’s service 31 at 20:10, 21:10, 22:15 and 23:10 and service 336 at 20:40, 21:40 and 22:40, Monday to Saturday, from the Duke Street, New London Road and Parkway stops
• You can leave after closing. The barrier opens automatically on your First Bus ticket, or once a park-only ticket has been paid for

A separate commercial operator, Central Connect, runs route 701 from Sandon under its own fares, having taken the route on commercially from 6 March 2026 (Chelmsford Park and Ride). Check which bus you are boarding before you assume the price.

If you would rather leave the car at home, the train into London is 29 minutes at its fastest, and Beaulieu Park station opened with 752 parking spaces on the north-east edge of the city in October 2025.

Bus gates, and the fines behind them

Three Chelmsford locations are enforced by camera for bus lane and bus gate contraventions: Channels Drive, Duke Street and Gunson Gate. Essex County Council publishes the traffic regulation order and photographs of the signed approaches for each. Duke Street in particular catches drivers whose satnav routes them through the middle of the city rather than round it.

Where to check on the day

• Essex Highways live traffic map for what is happening right now: closures, diversions and incidents
• Essex Highways future roadworks map for the next two weeks, council and utility works together, with an email alert option
• National Highways road closure report for the A12 and the rest of the strategic network. The spreadsheet is the useful part: one sheet per day, with start and end times
• Chelmsford City Council temporary road closures for street parties and events, which the city council handles rather than the county
• Potholes, street lights and blocked drains are Essex County Council’s responsibility, not the city council’s. Report them through Essex Highways

More Chelmsford local information

• Chelmsford trains to London: times, 2026 fares and the last train home.
• Chelmsford planning news: why the A12 cancellation forced the Local Plan back open.
• Chelmsford house prices: what homes actually sell for, area by area.
• Parking in Chelmsford: every car park, tariff and permit.
• Things to do in Chelmsford: and where to park for each of them.

Sources

• National Highways statutory notice, Essex Chronicle, 20 August 2026 for the A12 junction 19 to junction 25 order: the 24-hour 50mph limit, the lay-by closures, the full weekend closures from on or after 4 September, the junction 20A slip road closures from on or after 28 September and the three-month works period.
• National Highways: A12 Chelmsford to Colchester maintenance, read 7 November 2026, for the three nights from 4 November, the southbound diversion and the emergency vehicle access.
• National Highways seven-day closure report spreadsheet, edition covering Monday 9 to Sunday 15 November 2026, read 10 November, for every A12 and A120 night listed here. The link on the road closure report page changes as each new file is uploaded, and the old link keeps serving the old file.
• First Bus: C1, 13, 13A, 13B, 300, 351, New London Road, C3, St Nazaire Road, and X10 and X30, A130 northbound, read 10 November 2026.
• Chelmsford City Council: temporary road closures and Remembrance Sunday 2026, read 5 November 2026, for the parade closures and car parks.
• Cadent: work to replace 75-year-old gas pipes in Chelmsford, 11 September 2026 for the Swiss Avenue programme, and its news index and October 2026 listing, read 5 November, for the absence of anything newer on Swiss Avenue or Broomfield Road.
• National Highways: A12 Chelmsford to A120 widening scheme for the cancellation and its 1 August 2025 update.
• Essex County Council, 31 July 2026 for the £38m Beaulieu Access Package and its funding, and Essex Highways: Beaulieu Access Package, read 5 November, for the tender and 2028 wording.
• Cadent: Broomfield Road in Chelmsford set for new gas pipes for the 6 July to 23 August programme.
• Essex County Council traffic orders published as statutory notices on 27 August (Swiss Avenue order), 3 September, 10 September (rolling works order and weight limit suspension), 17 September, 24 September (main bundle, second bundle), 8 October, 14 October, 22 October (Essex Chronicle, including the SW15 A130 order; Basildon Echo), 29 October and 4 November (No.15 order), 6 November (Queen Street and Colchester Road made, No.16 order), and the separate footpath order of 27 August. The 8, 14, 22 and 29 October and 4 November notices were read on 5 November.
• Essex Highways: London Road Bridge, New London Road, read 5 November 2026, for the 24 June 2025 traffic lights, the defective cast iron beam, the Listed Building Consent requirement and the absence of any completion date.
• Essex Highways: Army and Navy Sustainable Transport Package, read 5 November 2026, for the package contents, the funding, the land acquisition stage and the 2028 to 2031 construction dates.
• Greater Anglia, 4 September 2026 for the dried-out clay and the Southend Victoria to London timetable change. It refused our read on 5 November.
• National Rail’s planned incident listing, read 5 November 2026, and the individual pages linked in the trains section.
• Essex Highways: Roxwell Bridge, Stonehill Road, read 5 November 2026, for the postponement, the 26 October start, the 20 weeks, the Christmas break, the bridge closures, the diversion route, the bus stop changes and the shuttle.
• First Bus: Broomfield Road diversion notice for the 24 August closure date.
• Travel Essex: Sandon Park and Ride for spaces, hours, the tariff, Park and Pedal, the cycle lockers and the evening ticket acceptance, read 5 September 2026. It refused our read on 5 November.
• Chelmsford Park and Ride (Central Connect) for the commercial route 701 and the 6 March 2026 change.

Roadworks change at short notice and overnight closures are weather dependent. Check the live maps above before you set off. On 5 November 2026 we re-read the National Highways closure report and scheme page, the Essex Highways pages for Roxwell Bridge, London Road Bridge, the Army and Navy and the Beaulieu package, the city council’s closure list, First Bus’s notices, Cadent’s news listings, the National Rail listings and the Essex traffic orders published up to 4 November. No 5 November batch had appeared by then. We could not re-read the Sandon Park and Ride tariff (5 September) or the Greater Anglia announcement (4 September), because both sites block automated reads. We also could not re-read the Rainsford Lane order, and the rolling orders of August and September, the path closures and the A12 widening and funding pages were not re-read this time.