Councillors have been promised that local road closures will be better thought through as HS2 prepares to close Dalehouse Lane for 14 months.

Members of Kenilworth Town Council (KTC) have continued to make calls to Warwickshire County Council, local developers and the high speed rail developer to plan roadworks better in the town.

But with one of the main routes into Kenilworth set to be shut for over a year from early 2025, members renewed calls to make sure Coventry Road remains open throughout that time.

And providing an update at the most recent KTC meeting, Cllr Peter Jones said: “They [HS2] did promise that the A429, Dalehouse Lane and A46 would not be closed simultaneously and would be closed in sequence.

"They said two would always remain open."

Dalehouse Lane is currently in the middle of two, one-month closures and will eventually have a new bridge built for it to cross the HS2 line.

The speed limit along the road has also been reduced from 50mph to 30mph until early 2024.

And while the new bridge will include a new cycle lane, councillors have also been told HS2 will not be responsible for extending this beyond the new crossing.

"Something we need to think about for this council, is the new overbridge where Dalehouse Lane crosses the HS2 line, will have a five-metre cycle path," Cllr James Kennedy said in September.

"But that will only extend to the full extent of the bridge crossing - which leaves a gap along Dalehouse Lane which is not the safest cycleway."

His advice was that the council began applying for funding now, and began pressing for designs for new cycleways, in the hope these could be completed alongside the new bridge.

Councillors are yet to be told exactly when the 14-month closure will begin.