Work started yesterday on the first phase of resurfacing Vicarage Road and St Mary's Roundabout in Rodbourne Cheney.

More than 400 people signed a petition asking the council to bring forward the work, particularly to add the roundabout itself to the work programme.

This week will see contractors resurfacing Vicarage Road, and will last for a week. The road will not be closed, but traffic lights will be used for a stop-go system.

The work will then move to the roundabout at the junction with Aker's Way and Beech Avenue, starting next week, with the junction closed.

A diversion will be posted - traffic which would head west on Akers Way from the junction should head east on Beech Avenue to Pinehurst, and turn back on to Whitworth Road and Moredon Road until meeting Akers way at its junction with Purton Road.

Traffic which would go east on Beech Avenue should turn west from Rodbourne Road and go though Cheney Manor Industrial east before heading east on Moredon Road and Whitworth Road.