ROADWORKS will take place on a Lyme Regis road for five weeks while a £300,000 upgrade to the electricity network takes place.

Cobb Road will have two-way lights for three weeks from October 7 to 25 and then for two weeks from November 18 to December 6.

The road will also be closed for one night in mid-November.

Ozone Terrace will be closed to traffic from October 14 to 25.

The works are likely to cause delays to traffic between the town and The Cobb.

National Grid Electricity Distribution is starting one of its biggest upgrades to its network for customers in Lyme Regis next week.

Engineers and contractors will begin work on Monday, October 7, and the project will last until early December.

The National Grid say more than 800 customers in the town, as well as visitors, will benefit from the improvements to network reliability.

It is hoped the upgrade will reduce the likelihood of power cuts in the town.

The £300,000 project will renew the network, some of which is around 40 years old.

Last year, a closure to Broad Street in the town led to businesses suffering from a "dramatic drop in trade".

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Jack Osborne, who is leading the £300,000 project for National Grid Electricity Distribution, said: “We will be updating a substation and installing new underground cables that supply The Cobb area, as well as rerouting some other existing cables.

“Some of this network dates from the 1980s-90s and upgrading it will improve the security of the electricity supply for customers, reducing the likelihood of power cuts.

“It will also lead to an increase in capacity enabling people to connect more low-carbon technologies, such as electric vehicle chargers, battery storage and heat pumps.

"This work represents an important step in helping Lyme Regis to join the clean energy transition.

“We recognise closing roads in Lyme Regis will be disruptive and thank people in advance for their understanding and patience."

During the summer, National Grid Electricity Distribution held a meeting with residents and businesses to raise awareness of the work and to answer questions.