ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTIONS 14(1)(a) AND (7) THE A45 TRUNK ROAD, THE M45 MOTORWAY AND THE M1 MOTORWAY (TEMPORARY RESTRICTION AND PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC) ORDER 2025
What is happening?
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that National Highways Limited (Company no. 9346363) has made an Order on the A45 Trunk Road, the M45 Motorway and the M1 Motorway, in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, to enable bridge repairs and resurfacing works to be carried out.
The effect of the Order, will be to -
(1) impose a speed restriction of 50 miles
per hour on —
(a) the westbound carriageway of the M45 from a point 100 metres west of the tip of the nosing at its junction with the link road leading from the A45 Daventry Road, at Dunchurch, to the roundabout junction of the M45, the B4429 and the A45 Coventry Road, at Thurlaston (Thurlaston Roundabout);
(b) the eastbound carriageway of the M45 from its junction with Thurlaston Roundabout, to a point 1100 metres east of that junction; and
(c) the eastbound carriageway of the A45 from a point 1150 metres west of its junction with Thurlaston Roundabout, to that junction;
(2) close -
(a) the westbound carriageway of the M45 from its junction with the M1 at Junction 17, to its junction with Thurlaston Roundabout;
(b) the eastbound carriageway of the M45 from its junction with Thurlaston Roundabout, to its junction with the M1 at Junction 17;
(c) the link road leading to the westbound carriageway of the M45 from Daventry Road, at Dunchurch;
(d) the eastbound carriageway of the A45 from its junction with the exit slip road leading to Lawford Heath Lane and the A4071, near Dunsmore Heath, to its junction with Thurlaston Roundabout;
(e) Thurlaston Roundabout; and
(3) prohibit any vehicle from entering the eastbound carriageway of the A45 at its junction with the A4071, at Dunsmore Heath.
The works are expected to start on Tuesday 26 August 2025 and continue for
approximately 9 months. The closures will be overnight between 20:00 hours and 06:00 hours. The speed restriction will be in place 24 hours per day for the duration of the works. The Order will come into force on 22 August 2025.
Vehicles being used for police, fire and rescue authority or ambulance purposes will be exempt from the closures and speed restriction. Vehicles being used for special forces purposes will be exempt from the speed restriction, and vehicles being used for traffic officer purposes, in connection with the works or for winter maintenance purposes will be exempt from the closures.
Diversion routes via the A45, the A46, the M6 and the M1 and vice versa will be signed.
For further information please contact Richard Tansley on 07718 236 669.
Karen Eustace, an Officer in National Highways Limited.
National Highways Limited (Company no. 9346363) registered office: Bridge House, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, GU1 4LZ.
A Company registered in England and Wales.
