DELAYED drainage work will see a road closed for a week.

Gorse Street in Blackburn will be temporarily closed from today, having originally been scheduled to take place at the end of last month.

This is for service diversions before the construction of the Burnley Road/Gorse Street signalised junction.

Works were delayed last month because of to the non-availability of Cadent Gas to undertake their part of the works.

The road closure is part of major works to complete the much-delayed Furthergate link road scheme in Blackburn.

The construction of the link road, bypassing Burnley Road, was halted in 2016 because of a row between the council and Tesco over a small piece of land off Gorse Street on the car park belonging to the chain’s Hill Street store.

Construction work on the the final 600-yard ‘missing’ section of the £4.8million link road is now under way for completion in March.

Construction of the ‘missing link’ is expected to take six months using £2million of cash provided by the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership.

The works will connect up the main no-stopping ‘red route’ along Bottomgate and Copy Nook into Blackburn town centre with the Red Lion Roundabout and the M65 Junction 6.

A Blackburn with Darwen Council spokesman said: "Advanced warning signs are in-place and diversion routes will be advertised."