One of the main roads into Sidmouth is to be closed for three days next week for patching work on its surface.

The A375 Vicarage Road will be closed from Tuesday, June 29 until Thursday, 1 July between 9.30am and 3.30pm. It will be open to traffic outside those hours.

The work will ensure that the road surface continues to be safe until a major scheme to resurface it takes place at the beginning of next year.

The patching work is on a 500-metre section of the road from the Vicarage Road/All Saints Road Roundabout to Brewery Lane.

A signed diversion route will be in place via All Saints Road, B3176, The Bowd, A3052 and A375 and vice versa, although local motorists may find alternative routes.

During this time access will be maintained for emergency vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, businesses and residents of Vicarage Road.

But on-road parking will not be available between these hours, and parents picking up their children from All Saints School in the afternoon will need to park at an alternative location.

Discussions have been held with the school and this is being communicated to the parents.

The reactive patching work is in preparation for a major scheme in the New Year to resurface the length of Vicarage Road.

Councillor Stuart Hughes, the Cabinet Member for Highway Management and the local councillor for Sidmouth said: