New Scapa Road closed for resurfacing works

New Scapa Road in Kirkwall will be closed between Manse Road and Scapa Court for the next two weeks, Orkney Islands Council (OIC) has confirmed.

This comes as road resurfacing works continue in the town and elsewhere on the Mainland.

As a result of the closure, the section of Pipersquoy Road between New Scapa Road and Broadsands Road will also be closed to through traffic.

Signed diversions via Wellington Street/High Street, Old Scapa Road and Foreland Road will be in place (Diversion Plan attached)

All bus services will be able to follow the diversion, except the No. 9 town service bus — it will be unable to serve Pipersquoy and Quoybanks and will travel via Holm Branch Road to re-join the route on Holm Road (diversion plan included here too).

The works are being undertaken in two phases to ensure access to the COVID Assessment Centre and Vaccine Centre at the Old Balfour at all times.

Access to both car parks/centres will be provided internally via a ramped link through the corner of the Old Balfour car park nearest the old Maternity/Macmillan entrance. Each phase is expected to take one week. Phase One, from Monday, will see access to both Centres via the old Maternity entrance. (Phases diagram attached)

These works were originally scheduled for last December, but were postponed by OIC to avoid disrupting the rollout of the COVID-19 boosters.

Other resurfacing works are being undertaken over a substantial length of the A986 between Grimeston Road and Refuge Corner from this Monday for up to seven weeks. Although the majority of works will be carried out under traffic lights, there may be short durations when the road will be closed to carry out works safely.

Later this month, works on Broad Street and Palace Road are set to begin. The resurfacing of the full length of Broad Street and the section of Palace Road up to Watergate are being resurfaced is scheduled to begin on February 21. Full closures will be in place and works are expected to take one week.