Oxford City Council in partnership with Oxfordshire County Council will be undertaking works to alleviate problems with the highway drainage and surface water flooding issues in Quarry School Place and Quarry Hollow.

This work is due to start the week commencing  4 March 2013 for up to 5 weeks. The work will comprise installing a pumping station underground and also a rising main from Quarry Hollow along Beaumont Road up to the existing highway drain in the Easter By-pass Road.

The road here is too narrow to accommodate both site works and traffic and a closure is necessary for safe working both for the workforce and the public.

Advance signage will be erected prior to the closure coming into force to inform traffic. A diversion via Quarry High Street will be sign-posted for traffic

to use during the duration of the closure but non-local traffic will be encouraged to avoid this route with additional signing on the approaches to Headington Quarry.

A twenty four hour closure will be in place continuously for the duration of the works.