Motorists are being advised about diversion routes ahead of essential engineering works to repair Bath’s historic Cleveland Bridge.

The £3.8 million scheme is set to start in April, when scaffolding is erected, ahead of the bridge closing fully in May.

Details of diversions for Bath city centre routes as well as outer diversions for through traffic on the A36 can be found here www.bathnes.gov.uk/clevelandbridge

The bridge currently carries 17,000 vehicles a day. Despite routine maintenance it now needs extensive major structural repairs.

Bath & North East Somerset Council secured funding through the Government’s Highways Challenge Fund to carry out the work and has appointed Dyer and Butler.

Essential maintenance on the bridge has been timed to start after the launch of Bath’s CAZ.