Hereford Roadworks: Belmont Road Shut 10 Nights From 14 Sep

Herefordshire Council has published the statutory notices for its September road programme, and the biggest single item in it is in the city. The A465 Belmont Road is down for closure for 10 nights from 14 September. Two weeks later, Gaol Street is scheduled to shut for two days from 24 September.

Both sit inside one order covering 22 roads, which comes into force on 31 August. This page lists every road in it, what is already closed today, where to park and what it costs, and where the bypass has got to.

Last checked 22 August 2026.

Closed now, or in the next fortnight

These orders have been made, which means the council has taken the decision rather than announced an intention.

Three of those matter more than the rest.

• Bromyard. Old Road is shut next to the Firs Orchard junction for five days from Monday. The signed diversion runs via the A44, Sherford Street, Broad Street and High Street.
• Ross-on-Wye. The footpath closure at ZK9 has no end date beyond “until the works are done”, with a six-month backstop. The alternative route is via Trenchard Street, Horns Road and the rest of ZK9.
• Ledbury and Wellington Heath. The footbridge closure on WH16 and LR17 has no alternative route at all. The council’s own notice says so. If you walk that link, there is nothing to divert onto.

The Courtyard’s car park on Edgar Street is also still closed. The theatre says on its own site that there is no on-site parking throughout August and that the car park reopens on Friday 4 September, while its pop-up venue The Amp occupies the site.

The September order: 22 roads, from 31 August

On 13 August the council gave notice that it intends to make the Resurfacing and Patching Scheme Sept 26 order. It comes into force on 31 August 2026 and the whole programme is expected to take about a month.

Read the dates below as proposed. This is a notice of intention, not a decision already taken, and the council states that definitive dates and times will be given by advance warning signs on site.

What that means if you drive in Hereford

Belmont Road is the one to plan around. The A465 is the main southwestern approach to the city, and 10 nights is the longest closure of any road in the city in the order. It is night work, so the daytime commute should be unaffected, but anyone driving in or out late will be on a diversion for a fortnight.

Gaol Street is a car park street. Herefordshire Council’s own Gaol Street car park, 130 spaces, sits on it. The order covers the road, not the car park, and the council has not said whether access to the car park is maintained during the two days. If you use it, check the advance signs before 24 September rather than assuming.

Bonington Drive and Hillary Drive are off Kings Acre Road on the western edge of the city, and both are down for five days from the same Monday as Belmont Road.

Water mains work around Leominster, from 7 September

A second order, also advertised on 13 August, covers water mains renewal preparation and comes into force on 7 September. It is expected to take about four weeks and lists 12 closures in the parishes north of Leominster.

The road it hits hardest is Eye Lane (C1048), which appears four times: at Ashton from 10 September for two days, at Moreton Eye from 10 September for seven days, at Eye from 15 September for four days and at Luston from 17 September for seven days.

Also in the order:

• C1050 Hundred Lane from the A49, at Ashton and at Middleton, both from 7 September for three days
• Lower Easton, Leysters, from 9 September for two days
• C1049 Pateshall Lane, Kimbolton, from 14 September for three days and again from 17 September for two days
• C1052 from Lower Easton to the C1049, Middleton, from 14 September for two days
• The Hawthorns, Kimbolton, from 21 September for three days
• Woonton Lane, Middleton, from 24 September for two days

Further ahead: four dates worth diarising

Two of those bite harder than their length suggests. Green Lane in Leominster is six weeks, the longest closure anywhere in the county’s current notices, with the diversion running via the A44 and Pierrepont Road. And the A44 Mill Street closure takes out the main road through Leominster for a night, with traffic sent the long way round via the A4112, A438 and A49.

There is also a temporary 40mph limit on the A4111 at Kington, about 500 metres either side of Lower Lilwall, proposed for one day from 14 September.

Parking in Hereford, and the £11.50 difference

Herefordshire Council runs around 4,374 off-street parking spaces across the county and about 1,600 controlled on-street spaces. 2,632 of the off-street spaces are in Hereford, banded into three zones: Zone 1 central, Zone 2 visit, Zone 3 work and stay.

The zones are a polite way of saying the price varies by a factor of three.

If you are in town for the day, Merton Meadow (HR4 9HE) is the answer: £1.10 an hour, £4.40 for four hours and £5.50 for up to 24 hours, Monday to Saturday. The Garrick Multi Storey (HR4 9HG) is next at £8.40 for anything over four hours, with 399 spaces, 12 disabled bays, 18 parent and child bays and a 2.2 metre height limit.

Gaol Street (HR1 2HU, 130 spaces) and the underground Maylord Orchards (HR1 2DT, 208 spaces) are the central ones, and they are the ones to avoid for a long stay: £1.90 an hour rising to £17 for over eight hours. Maylord Orchards has a 1.98 metre height limit and closes behind a shutter outside its hours, with a £15 fee to release a vehicle left inside.

Three rules that apply everywhere:

• The first 30 minutes is free, in every council car park and every on-street pay-and-display bay in the county, under the Pop and Shop scheme introduced on 23 April 2026. You still have to get a ticket from the machine, and you cannot claim it through the JustPark app.
• Blue Badge holders get three hours free in council pay-and-display car parks, with a valid badge and clock displayed.
• Season tickets run to £1,373 a year at the Garrick and £858 at Merton Meadow. There is also an off-peak season ticket at £99 a year, valid 5pm to 9am, available across the Hereford car parks.

Since 9 May 2026, private vehicles have had to use the station car park to pick up or drop off at Hereford railway station, because the old kerbside arrangement has gone while the Transport Hub is built.

None of those prices are changing yet, but the framework behind them is. On 31 July 2026 the council’s Cabinet adopted a Herefordshire Parking Strategy running to 2041, shaped by more than 470 consultation responses. It commits the council to protecting disabled bays, tackling obstructive parking around schools and junctions, and treating Hereford, the market towns and rural areas differently. It sets no new tariffs, so read it as the framework for future decisions rather than a price change.

The £37 million road programme, and what is already done

On 23 March 2026 the council set out a £37 million investment in roads, footpaths and public spaces for 2026/27: £23.697 million of Government highways maintenance funding, £6.385 million of highways infrastructure investment, £5 million specifically to resurface roads, £1 million for public rights of way, £945,000 for town and parish council environmental improvements and £600,000 to deal with ash dieback in roadside trees.

That buys 142 road schemes: 32 on A roads, 31 on B roads, 37 on C roads and 41 on unclassified roads. Around 20 miles will be fully resurfaced and a further 64 miles will get surface dressing.

By 22 August the council’s own programme page had marked a long list complete, including the A4110 Wigmore to Adforton, the A4113 from Brampton Bryan to the C1006 at Letton, the B4221 Upton Crews to Hill Top, the A449 approach to the Woodredding bends, the C1114 at Bodenham, the A4137 at St Owens Cross and the B4361 Hereford Road. All seven were still outstanding when we last checked in early August.

The practical point on timing has not changed. The council does not publish start dates on its own scheme pages. Each entry links out to the national one.network map, and those links generally only go live about ten days before work starts, which the council states on the page itself. A live link is therefore a useful signal in its own right: it means the work is close.

The bypass, and what happened this month

On 4 August 2026 the council published the Full Business Case for Phase One of the Hereford Bypass. It is the first time the scheme has been costed and justified in that detail, and the council says one reason for producing it was to show the scheme represents value for money.

The document describes Phase One as a new 3.6km link between the A49 and the A465, serving the Rotherwas Industrial Estate and Hereford Enterprise Zone. Modelling in it suggests journeys between the A465 and the Enterprise Zone could be about six and a half minutes quicker by the design year.

The council also names the residential roads it expects to carry less traffic as a result: Belmont Road, Walnut Tree Avenue and Holme Lacy Road. Belmont Road is the same road losing 10 nights to resurfacing next month.

Construction of Phase One is still scheduled to begin in December 2026, with planning permission secured. Phase Two, which would complete the route and bring a second Wye crossing, has no construction date.

The council’s wider case for the scheme, that up to 14,000 new homes and 150 hectares of employment land cannot be delivered without it, is published on a page that also links to a “Back the Bypass” campaign. Read it as advocacy rather than independent assessment. The December date is the part that will affect your journey.

Walking, cycling and the city centre schemes

In May 2026 the council gave this position on the five main city schemes:

The two to watch are the last pair. Aylestone Hill and the Commercial Road, Blueschool Street and Newmarket corridor both carry heavy traffic into the city centre, and both are down for construction starting in June 2027. Neither is a 2026 problem; both are worth knowing about before you commit to a commute.

If you would rather not drive at all, Beryl hire bikes have bays across the city including the railway station, Old Market and the Cathedral, on more than twenty miles of traffic-free path. A pedal bike is £1 to unlock and 5p a minute, an e-bike £1.50 and 12p a minute, and a day pass on a pedal bike is £12.

Common questions

What roads are closed in Hereford right now?

Friars Street at the Cross Street junction closes for one night from 29 August. Further out, Old Road in Bromyard is shut for five days from 24 August and Brampton Road at Greytree for a day. The bigger city closures are next month: A465 Belmont Road for 10 nights from 14 September and Gaol Street for two days from 24 September.

Where is the cheapest place to park in Hereford?

Merton Meadow car park, HR4 9HE, at £5.50 for up to 24 hours Monday to Saturday and £3.30 all day on Sunday. Gaol Street and Maylord Orchards, both more central, charge £17 for the same length of stay.

Is there free parking in Hereford?

The first 30 minutes is free in every Herefordshire Council car park and on-street pay-and-display bay, one session a day, under the Pop and Shop scheme. You must still take a ticket from the machine. Blue Badge holders get three hours free.

When does the Hereford bypass start?

Herefordshire Council says construction of Phase One is scheduled to begin in December 2026. The Full Business Case, published on 4 August 2026, sets it out as a 3.6km link between the A49 and A465 serving Rotherwas. Phase Two has no date.

How do I check Hereford roadworks?

Through the council’s roadworks map, which is the national one.network map. Individual scheme links on the council’s resurfacing pages usually only go live about ten days before work begins. The statutory closure notices, which carry the actual dates, are published in the Public Notice Portal.

Can I be dropped off outside Hereford station?

No. Since 9 May 2026 private vehicles have had to use the station car park for pick-up and drop-off while the new Transport Hub is under construction. The hub was around 65% complete in May, with an October 2026 finish expected.

Related

• Hereford to London trains: journey times, season ticket prices and the Transport Hub works.
• Hereford planning: the housing target behind the bypass argument.
• Hereford house prices: what homes cost across the county.
• Things to do in Hereford: including where parking is free, and where it is £6.20.

Sources

• Herefordshire Council statutory notices published in the Public Notice Portal on 13 August 2026 (Resurfacing and Patching Scheme Sept 26 order, Schedule 1) and 13 August 2026 (Water Mains Renewal Prep 26-947 order), for every road, start date and duration in the two September tables.
• Individual Herefordshire Council closure notices for Friars Street, Old Road, Bromyard, Brampton Road, Greytree, Peterchurch, footpath ZK9 at Ross-on-Wye, footpaths WH16 and LR17 at Wellington Heath and Ledbury Rural, Green Lane, Leominster, the B4216 at Ledbury, Madley, A44 Mill Street, Leominster and the A4111 at Kington.
• Herefordshire Council, road resurfacing programme and road surface dressing programme, checked 22 August 2026, for which schemes are now marked complete and the ten-day rule on the map links.
• Herefordshire Council, major road improvement programme planned across Herefordshire, 23 March 2026, for the £37 million, the funding breakdown and the 142 schemes.
• Herefordshire Council, council car parks general information and Pop and Shop, plus the car park pages for Merton Meadow, Garrick Multi Storey, Gaol Street and Maylord Orchards, tariffs re-checked 22 August 2026.
• Herefordshire Council, Cabinet adopts new 15-year parking strategy, 31 July 2026.
• Herefordshire Council, Full Business Case published for Hereford Bypass Phase One, 4 August 2026, and the Hereford Bypass page for the December 2026 construction date.
• Herefordshire Council, strong progress on the transport programme for the stage and completion dates of the five city schemes, and train travel for the station pick-up change.
• The Courtyard for the Edgar Street car park closure to 4 September 2026, and Beryl for the bike hire prices.

Most of the September dates above come from notices of intention, which are proposals rather than decisions already taken. The council says definitive dates will be given by advance warning signs on site. Check before you plan a journey around any of them.