Council highways chiefs are reminding motorists to plan ahead as improvements continue to the Dawsons Corner junction, with repairs and resurfacing works on the Stanningley Bypass.
Over four weeks starting on Monday 28 July 2025, road repairs and resurfacing works will take place on the Stanningley Bypass, as part of the £44.179m Dawsons Corner and Stanningley Bypass improvement scheme.
The work has been planned to coincide with the reduced levels of traffic over the school summer holidays, allowing for these works to progress as quickly as possible with some significant disruption expected to journeys over the coming weeks.
Traffic management will be in place 24/7 along with 30mph speed limits to help complete this work efficiently and for the safety of all road users.
During the set up and switch around of the traffic management, there will be partial closures of the bypass and some of the access/slip roads will have local diversions. Access to Pudsey train station will be maintained at all times.
The road traffic management system will safely allow repairs and surfacing works to take place, starting northbound from 8pm Monday 28 July until 11 August and then southbound from 5am Sunday 12 August, until Tuesday 26 August.
The Owlcotes Shopping Centre slip road will be closed to facilitate changes to the traffic management on the following dates:
- Monday 28 July 8pm-5am
- Monday 11 August 8pm-5am
- Monday 25 August 8pm-5am
- Tuesday 26 August 8pm-5am (contingency date)
Councillor Jonathan Pryor, Leeds City Council’s deputy leader and executive member for economy, transport and sustainable development, said: “The team are working hard to minimise disruption by planning, co-ordinating and sequencing large highways schemes across Leeds.
“They need careful planning with other works, not always in our control and events across our busy city. We have done lots of work to try and minimise the disruption these works will create, but what ever the amount of planning there may be some delays.
“Starting from Monday 28 July, to coincide with four weeks of the school summer holidays, please plan ahead when travelling between Bradford and Leeds (A647) or using the (A6120) outer ring road through Dawsons Corner. You will need to allow extra time for your journeys, be patient and follow the signed road diversions in place.”
For more information, see the Dawsons Corner project website.
Total waste of money and 18 months (more likley 2 years) of delays and it’ll be no faster due to the real issue being its not dual carriage way all the way round, there’s a limit to how many vehicles can occupy a road and at rush hour especially, that the limit, not the junciton itself