Somerset Council Various Roads, Shepton Mallet (Temporary Traffic Restrictions) Order 2025 (WestFest Event 2025)
What is happening?
Somerset Council made the above Order in exercise of the provisions of Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as previously advertised on the 2nd day of October 2025 to introduce temporary traffic restrictions in the roads specified in the Schedules to this Order. The Order shall come into operation on the 16th day of October 2025 and will remain in force for eighteen months. The Order will be made to facilitate the WestFest 2025 event and is in the interest of public safety. All closures will be signed and staffed and will remain in force only for as long as is necessary. Exemptions are provided in the Order for emergency vehicles and any vehicles associated with the management of the event.
A copy of the draft Traffic Regulation Order and the associated plans can be examined at www.somerset.gov.uk/TRO. For information of the alternative route, where applicable, visit www.one.network.For general enquiries relating to this event please contact Martin O’Connor at EP Team by telephone on 07916 613908.
Duncan Sharkey,Chief Executive
Dated: 16th October 2025
Schedule 1
Temporary Prohibition of Vehicles
from 1000 hours on Saturday 25th October 2025 to
0800 hours on Sunday 26th October 2025
Bagborough Lane, Shepton Mallet - For its entire length
Schedule 2
Temporary 30mph Speed Limit from 0800 hours on
Saturday 25th October 2025 to 0800 hours on
Sunday 26th October 2025
A371 Prestleigh Hill, Shepton Mallet - From the A37
Whitstone Hill Roundabout in a southerly direction for a distance of 800 metres
A371 Redlands Farm Lane to Prestleigh Road,
Shepton Mallet - From its junction with the B3081
Prestleigh Road to its junction with Bagborough Lane
Schedule 3
Temporary One Way
(northerly direction)
From 2200 hours on Saturday 25th October 2025 to
0800 hours on Sunday 26th October 2025
A371 Prestleigh Hill, Shepton Mallet - From its junction with the B3081 Prestleigh Road to its junction with the
A37 Whitstone Hill Roundabout
A371 Redlands Farm Lane to Prestleigh Road, Shepton Mallet - From its junction Bagborough Lane to its junction with B3081 Prestleigh Road
Statement of reasons for making the Order
a) because works are being or are proposed to be executed on or near the road because of the likelihood of danger to the public, or b) of serious damage to the road, which is not attributable to such works
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