Service 56/57 | Layer Road, Colchester | DAILY road closures

North Essex

  • Location
    Layer Road, Colchester
  • Cause
    DAILY roadworks
  • Responsibility
    Essex County Council
  • Effective
    27/04/2025 - 01/05/2025

Layer Road, Colchester is closed for roadworks, on a daily basis, from Sunday 27th April to Thursday 1st May 2025.

The road is to be closed from 08:00hrs each morning and is to re-open from 17:00hrs each evening.

Due to the location of the road closure - the 56 and 57 services will be placed on diversion:

56

The 56 service will divert in both directions via Drury Road, Shrub End Road and Walnut Tree Way.

The following bus stop(s) will not be served in both directions:

  • Drury Arms
  • Turnstile Square
  • Rainsborowe Road
  • Boadicea Way South
  • Layer Road
  • Catherine Hunt Way
  • John Kent Avenue
  • Iceni Way

57

Towards Baronswoods Way: the 57 service will divert via Goojerat Road, Circular Road West, Circular Road South, Berechurch Road and Earlswood Way before returning to normal line of route on Peerswood Road.

Towards Colchester City Centre: the 57 service will divert via Fallowfield Road, Earlswood Way, Berechurch Road, Circular Road South, Circular Road West and Goojerat Road before returning to normal line of route on Butt Road.

  • Drury Arms
  • Turnstile Square
  • Rainsborowe Road
  • Boadicea Way South
  • Layer Road
  • Lordswood Road
  • Homefield Road
  • Earlswood Way
  • Beechwood Close

We apologise for the disruption to your bus journey.

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