Highways bosses set out 2025 maintenance plans for Shropshire roads including M54, A41 and A49

The organisation, responsible for the country’s biggest and busiest roads, has published a series of notices that establish the right to carry out maintenance and improvement work on several Shropshire roads throughout 2025.

Work will be permitted to take place between 7pm and 6am (7am on weekends), from Thursday, January 2 to Tuesday, December 23 and road closures are expected.

The M54, A5, A41 and A49 are all included in the plans and it is expected that National Highways will publicise specific dates for work as they approach.

A current list of the prohibitions are as follows:

• A5 westbound from its junction with the M54, at Cluddley, to the England/Wales border, at Chirk. 

• A5 eastbound from the England/Wales border, at Chirk, to its junction with the M54, at Cluddley (Wellington).

• A458 eastbound and westbound between its roundabout junction with the A5, at Churncote, and the England/Wales border, near Wollaston. 

• A483 northbound and southbound between its roundabout junction with the A5 and B4579 (Mile End Roundabout), at Oswestry, and the England/Wales border, at Llanymynech.

• The link roads leading to and from Mile End Roundabout, to and from the roundabout junction of the A5 with the access/egress roads to and from Innovation Park.

• The circulatory carriageway of the roundabout junction with the M50, the A449 and the B4221 (Traveller’s Rest Roundabout), at Brampton Abbotts.

• A449 southbound from its junction with Traveller’s Rest Roundabout, to its roundabout junction with the A40, Netherton Road and the B4234 Ledbury Road (Over Ross Roundabout), at Brampton Abbotts.

• The circulatory carriageway of Over Ross Roundabout.

• A449 northbound from its junction with Over Ross Roundabout, to its junction with Traveller’s Rest Roundabout.

• A40 southbound from its junction with Over Ross Roundabout, to the England/Wales border, south of Ganarew.

• A40 northbound from the England/Wales border, south of Ganarew, to its junction with Over Ross Roundabout.

• A49 between its roundabout junction with the A5 and the A5112 (Dobbies Roundabout), at Bayston Hill, and its junction with the A456, at Woofferton.

• The eastbound carriageway of the M54 from its junction with the A5, at M54 Junction 7, to its junction with the M6 at M6 Junction 10a.

• The westbound carriageway of the M54 from its junction with the M6 at M6 Junction 10a, to its junction with the A5, at M54 Junction 7.

• Any slip road leading to or from the M54 at Junctions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

• M54 eastbound entry and westbound exit slip roads at Junction 7.

• The circulatory carriageway of the A41 at its roundabout.