Commercial Road lights to 4 December, Holme Lacy Road shut from 6 November and Norbury Place closed. Hereford's closures this week and the diversions.

The Commercial Road and Blueschool Street signals are being replaced. The council’s programme runs from 12 October to 4 December, with temporary three-way lights while the old signals come out. The junction stays open.

Norbury Place is still shut from Old Eign Hill, on works expected to last until around 20 November. There is no other way in, so access is maintained.

Coming up in Hereford:

  • Holme Lacy Road, four days from 6 November, between Hinton Road and Putson Avenue, for resurfacing. The council’s proposed diversion is via the A49 and the B4399.
  • Friars Street, overnight on 16 November, outside the entrance to Lord Scudamore School, for anti-skid surfacing. The notice of intention sends traffic via Barton Road, the A49 and Eign Street.
  • A 40mph limit is planned at Locks Garage from 30 October, on the A465 Abergavenny road and the B4348 either side of the junction, for up to 18 months.
  • November’s resurfacing list has ten roads, including the A465 at Stoke Lacy for seven days from 9 November. The table is below.

Ross-on-Wye: Wilton Road and Royal Parade are shut until about 11 December for the rock face works. The council made the closure order on 22 October. Our story has the details.

A40 and A449 laybys near Ross close from 16 November for about fifteen weeks of tree cutting. National Highways’ notice covers laybys on the A449 from Brampton Abbotts to Ross, and on the A40 from Ross to the Welsh border at Ganarew.

The College Road bridge is still one-way, from College Road towards Widemarsh Street, and the footbridge beside it stays shut.

Last checked 27 October 2026.

In the city: what is happening now

  • College Road bridge: one-way from College Road towards Widemarsh Street. The council’s page for the bridge, read on 13 October, says extra barriers have been fitted along the road bridge to protect people walking and cycling.
  • The footbridge next to it stays shut. It has been closed since July, after an inspection found extensive corrosion and loss of structural material in the 1963 structure. People walking and cycling use part of the road bridge instead.
  • Commercial Road and Blueschool Street junction, 12 October to 4 December. The council is replacing the traffic signals, with temporary three-way lights in the meantime. Our story has the details.
  • Holme Lacy Road, four days from 6 November, from Hinton Road to Putson Avenue, for resurfacing. The notice of intention, published 15 October, sends traffic round via the A49 and the B4399.
  • Norbury Place, from 5 October, 47 days. Order made 24 September.
  • St Owen Street, parking suspended from 19 October, about five weeks, between number 96 and St Owen Place. The council has now made the order so traffic can pass private works safely.

The council’s bridge page is blunt about behaviour at the one-way system. It says it has seen drivers “ignored traffic management measures, moved safety barriers or attempted to travel the wrong way”. Its advice is to follow the signs and use another route where you can.

The council has bid to the Department for Transport’s Structures Fund to replace the footbridge, and is working with Network Rail on the options. There is no replacement date.

The trunk roads around Hereford are clear this week. National Highways’ seven-day report for 19 to 25 October lists no closures on the A49, the A465, the M50 or the A40 west of Gloucester.

Further north on the A49, one more night closure is coming. National Highways intends to shut the A49 from the B4368 at Craven Arms to the A456 at Woofferton overnight, 11.55pm to 9.40am, starting on Saturday 31 October, for work at Onibury level crossing. It is expected to last one night. The signed diversion is via the B4368, the A442 and the A456. Woofferton is about five miles north of Leominster.

Closed now, or starting in the next fortnight

“Made” means the council has decided the order. “Intention” means it has only advertised that it plans to. This table leaves out the October resurfacing roads, which have their own table below. Closures that ended before 20 October have been taken out.

Herefordshire road closures in force on 20 October 2026 or starting by 2 November, from Herefordshire Council's statutory notices published up to 15 October
WhereFromForWhyStatus
Norbury Place, Hereford5 October47 daysElectrical reinforcementMade
Cranes Lane and Kenwater Close, Leominster5 October5 weeksGas mains replacementMade
Green Lane, Byford, Church Lane to footpath 1112 October29 daysJoint and trenchingMade
Rock Lane, Clifton-on-Teme15 October33 daysWater mains renewalMade
B4260 Wilton Road and Royal Parade, Ross-on-Wye19 Octoberto 11 DecemberPermanent barrier installationMade
Bridge Street, Ledbury19 October1 weekGas mains replacementIntention
Green Lane, Leominster, Pierrepont Road to Townsend Close19 October40 daysTrenchingMade
B4348, Kingstone, Stone Street to Brookfield Road19 October5 daysResurfacing and lining, traffic calming schemeMade
Nover Wood Drive, Fownhope19 October29 daysNew ductingMade
C1273, Fownhope, Capler Wood Cottage to Caplar Lodge19 October15 daysTree safety worksMade
The Downs Road, Norton, outside The Fox19 October2 weeksCulvert repair and ditchingMade
C1120, Marden, at Orchard Green19 October5 daysWater connectionMade
C1103 Moreton Road and Moreton House Lane, Moreton-on-Lugg19 October3 days eachDuctingMade
C1110 Pencombe Road, Winslow19 October3 daysPoling and ductingMade
C1209, Newton St Margarets19 October2 daysAir valve installationMade
C1137, Whitbourne, outside Church House20 October2 daysStop tap worksMade
Lockhill, Upper Sapey20 October1 dayPole replacementMade
C1060 at the disused railway bridge, Hatfield22 October1 dayBridge maintenanceMade
C1263, Much Birch, A49 to the primary school entrance24 October9 daysTrenching and cablingMade
Lower Road Trading Estate, Ledbury26 October3 weeksGas mains replacementIntention
C1099, Tillington, U73003 junction to The Oak House26 October2 weeksDrainage remedial worksMade
B4214 Old Road, Bromyard26 October3 daysNew gas supplyMade
Prill Road, Ewyas Harold27 October4 weeksParapet repairsIntention
Boat Lane, Glewstone, A40 to Court Bungalow26 October5 daysDrainageMade
Stocking Lane, Lucton26 October3 daysTrenching and reinforcementMade
C1110, Pencombe, Hegdon Hill to the war memorial26 October3 days, 8am to 6pmReinstatement remedial worksMade
Shotts Lane, Kilcot27 October1 day, 9.30am to 3.30pmOverhead cablingMade
Church Street, Ross-on-Wye, outside number 528 October1 dayNew connection, one-way suspendedMade
B4222, Lea, east of Sutridge29 October1 day, 9.30am to noonCover and frame replacementMade
C1122, Marden, west of Wellington Crossing Cottage31 October1 night, from 11.30pmVegetation maintenanceMade
Crowmoor Lane, Tillington, outside Green View2 November4 daysGas service connectionIntention

Four things in that table matter more than their length suggests.

  • Wilton Road at Ross-on-Wye is shut for almost eight weeks, about 14 miles south-east of Hereford. The council announced the rock face works on 12 October, with Wilton Road closed between both junctions with Wye Street and Royal Parade closed too. The notice of intention says diversions will be signed locally.
  • Pencombe’s C1110 shuts for three days. The road between Hegdon Hill and the war memorial is shut for three days from 26 October, 8am to 6pm, for remedial work on an earlier reinstatement. The diversion is via the C1114.
  • Ledbury has two gas jobs back to back. Bridge Street is a week from 19 October, then the Lower Road Trading Estate for three weeks from 26 October, under a proposed order expected to take about four weeks in all.
  • Leominster has two overlapping jobs. Cranes Lane and Kenwater Close run for five weeks from 5 October. The second Green Lane stretch, Pierrepont Road to Townsend Close, is now made for 40 days from 19 October, with the diversion via Pierrepont Road, Bargates and Cursneh Road.

Into early November, the notices also list:

  • Church Street, Ross-on-Wye, outside number 5, one day on 28 October, with the one-way system suspended
  • The A40 at Weston under Penyard, between Hudson Manor Gardens and Ariconium Place, three nights from 3 November, 8pm to 6am, for resurfacing. The proposed diversion is via the A417 and A449.
  • Rectory Road, Hampton Bishop, one day from 2 November, for duct clearing
  • Castle Road, Richards Castle, four weeks from 6 November, for a private water connection
  • The C1125 at Shelwick, one night from 7 November, 10pm to 6am, for a bridge inspection

All five are notices of intention.

The dates in these orders are expectations. The council says definitive dates and times are given by advance warning signs on site.

Norbury Place: what the 47 days mean

Norbury Place runs off Old Eign Hill, on the east side of the city. The notice of making, published on 24 September, closes it from the Old Eign Hill junction. The council first advertised it on 10 September, with the same start date and the same 47 days.

The notice gives the reason as “electrical reinforcement scheme works”. It does not name the company doing them. There is no signed diversion, because there is no other way in, so the notice promises access will be maintained instead. If you live there or visit someone who does, expect to be let through the works rather than kept out.

On the expected duration the road reopens around 20 November. Queries go to the council on 01432 261800.

Resurfacing: the rest of October, then November

On 24 September the council made its Resurfacing and Patching Oct 26 (26-756) order. It schedules 21 closures from 1 October. These are the ones still running, or still to start, from 20 October. Diversions are signed locally and published on one.network.

Schedule 1 of the Resurfacing and Patching Oct 26 (26-756) Temporary Road Closure Order 2026, entries running or starting from 20 October, notice of making published by Herefordshire Council on 24 September 2026
RoadTown or parishProposed startDuration
B4204 from the B4203 to the county boundaryUpper Sapey12 October2 weeks
B4230 from High Street to the A480Weobley19 October2 weeks
B4218 Chances Pitch to Colwall Green RoadColwall19 October3 days
Church Road from the C1271 to Burford CottageSellack20 October3 days
Wrigglebrook Lane from the A49 to Cress CottageMuch Birch20 October4 days
Hope Mansell Lane from the C1275 to School LaneHope Mansell23 October4 days
B4361 from Little Folly to Angora Wood FarmOrleton26 October5 days
C1046 Millbrook WayOrleton26 October5 days
Killhorse Lane from Dicks Pitch to Bush Wood track, The GogginRichards Castle26 October5 days
A456 from the C1054 to the Shropshire boundary, againLittle Hereford31 October3 days

November’s programme is now out. On 15 October the council published a notice of intention for its Resurfacing and Patching Nov 26 (26-774) order. It comes into force on 1 November and lists ten roads, with the programme expected to take about a month. No Hereford city road is on it.

The one A road is the A465 at Stoke Lacy, from Panniers Lane to Cowarne Cottage, for seven days from 9 November. That is the Hereford to Bromyard road, about ten miles north-east of Hereford. The longest closure is the C1040 at Aston, Kingsland: 22 days from 9 November.

Schedule 1 of the Resurfacing and Patching Nov 26 (26-774) Temporary Road Closure Order 2026, notice of intention published by Herefordshire Council on 15 October 2026
RoadTown or parishProposed startDuration
B4164 from Old Wharf Lane to Symonds Yat West RoadSymonds Yat2 November2 days
C1267 from the C1266 to Rock FarmBallingham2 November5 days
C1007 from the B4362 to Upper Kinsham FarmKinsham4 November8 days
Little Tarrington Common Road, A438 to the C1151Little Tarrington9 November2 days
A465 from Panniers Lane to Cowarne CottageStoke Lacy9 November7 days
C1040 from the B4362 to Hill RoadAston, Kingsland9 November22 days
A4112 from the C1049 to Lever HillKimbolton16 November5 days
C1113 Ketch LaneBodenham19 November7 days
Daffaluke Lane from The Skakes Road to Glewstone RoadGlewstone23 November5 days
Millcroft RoadBodenham30 November5 days

Other November closures in the same week’s notices, all notices of intention:

  • Ivington Road, Newtown, near Leominster, outside Corner Cottage, two days from 4 November, for drainage
  • Wesley Road, Leominster, from Buckfield Road to number 74, three days from 9 November, for ducting
  • White House Farm Lane, Eastnor, near Ledbury, two nights from 10 November, 9pm to 6am
  • Pedlingham Close, Colwall, two days from 11 November, 9.30am to 3.30pm, with access maintained
  • The C1174 at Bosbury, about 525 metres, six days from 11 November
  • Cut Throat Lane, Bradlow, near Ledbury, two nights from 12 November, 9pm to 6am
  • The B4203 at Upper Sapey, from the B4204 to the U65005, two days from 14 November

The 40mph limit at Locks Garage. The council also intends to cut the speed limit to 40mph around the junction of the A465 and the B4348, from 30 October and for up to 18 months. It covers about 975 metres of the A465 and short stretches of the B4348 either side. The notice gives the reason only as “the likelihood of danger to the public”. The junction is on the Abergavenny road, south-west of Hereford.

The B4204 at Upper Sapey also has a separate proposed two-day closure from 2 November for splicing works.

Consultations with a deadline

Closed at noon on Friday 16 October: four proposals published on 24 September. Three are in the city and one is in Leominster. The council has not yet published notices of making for any of them.

  • No waiting at any time on six Hereford roads. The draft order puts double yellow lines on both sides of The Straight Mile for 210 metres east of Vincent Carey Road, and on stretches of Watery Lane, Barrs Court Road, College Road south of Venns Lane, and Queens Hill Gardens and White Horse Street. Whitecross Road gets no waiting and no loading at the Guilford Street and Oxford Street junctions, and a single yellow line, 8am to 6pm Monday to Saturday, by the Shell filling station exit. Write to trafficengineering@herefordshire.gov.uk.
  • No waiting at any time on Derwent Drive, Windermere Road and Yazor Road, under the Coniston Walk order.
  • A 30mph limit on Hoarwithy Road and Green Crize around The Pastures, and on the whole of The Pastures, The Shires and The Dales, under a speed limit order.
  • A permit-only parking scheme and no waiting at any time on various Leominster roads, under a variation order that quotes resident permits at £30 a year and visitor permits at £30. Quote reference 3409-200.

The last three are run for the council by ADL Traffic and Highways Engineering. Objections go to info@adltraffic.co.uk, or ADL House, Oaklands Business Park, Armstrong Way, Yate, Bristol BS37 5NA. Each notice says the plans and statement of reasons are in the Proposed Traffic Regulation Order section of the council’s website.

Noon on Friday 30 October: a Blue Badge bay in Bromyard’s Market Square. The council proposes a disabled badge holders only bay, Monday to Saturday 8am to 6pm, for up to three hours with no return within an hour. The other bays stay one hour, no return within an hour. Objections, or support, go to ADL Traffic and Highways Engineering at info@adltraffic.co.uk.

The Bredenbury 30mph and overtaking ban consultation on the A44 closed on 9 October, and the Transport Hub bus-only order closed on 2 October. We set out what the hub order does.

Footpaths shut, and where there is no way round

Two bypass footpaths closed on 14 September. The council has made orders closing HA3 at Haywood and GF3 at Grafton for up to six months, “to enable construction of the Hereford Bypass”. Both notices say there is no alternative route. Our bypass story covers every path advertised for the scheme.

Two more long-running closures were rolled forward on 17 September:

  • ESG28 Stretton Grandison, continued from 17 September for up to 12 months, damaged footbridge. The order dates from 2019. No alternative route.
  • DW2 Dilwyn, continued from 15 September for up to 12 months, damaged footbridge. The order dates from 2023. No alternative route.

The other closures running now:

  • AM2 Almeley, continued from 9 September for up to 12 months, damaged footbridge. No alternative route.
  • WH16 Wellington Heath and part of LR17 Ledbury Rural, from 24 August, up to six months, damaged footbridge. No alternative route.
  • PG4 Pencombe, continued from 3 September for up to 12 months, damaged bridge. No alternative route. This closure dates from 2019 and has been rolled forward again.
  • ZK9 Ross-on-Wye, from 20 August, up to six months, damaged footbridge. The alternative route is via Trenchard Street, Horns Road and the rest of ZK9.
  • RR9 Ross Rural, continued from 11 September for up to six months, construction. There is a permissive alternative route.
  • LZ3 Lyonshall, from 3 September, up to six months, building works. There is a permissive alternative route.

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.

Hereford council car park charges, one hour against all day Bar chart of Herefordshire Council car park charges in Hereford, Monday to Saturday, September 2026. Merton Meadow costs £1.10 for one hour and £5.50 for up to 24 hours. The Garrick Multi Storey costs £1.70 for one hour and £8.40 for over four hours. Gaol Street costs £1.90 for one hour and £17 for over eight hours. Maylord Orchards costs £1.90 for one hour and £17 for over eight hours. A full day in Hereford costs £5.50 or £17, depending on the car park Herefordshire Council car park charges, Monday to Saturday, re-checked 5 September 2026. The first 30 minutes is free everywhere. one hour all day Merton Meadow £1.10 £5.50 for 24 hours Garrick Multi Storey £1.70 £8.40 over four hours Gaol Street £1.90 £17.00 Maylord Orchards £1.90 £17.00 Merton Meadow is about a ten minute walk further from High Town than Maylord Orchards, and £11.50 cheaper for the day. Sunday tariffs are lower everywhere: £6 all day at Gaol Street and Maylord Orchards, £3.30 at Merton Meadow. Source: Herefordshire Council car park pages. Chart by Hereford Today.
Chart by Hereford Today

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 have changed, and the framework behind them has not moved either. On 31 July 2026 the council’s Cabinet adopted a Herefordshire Parking Strategy running to 2041, shaped by more than 470 consultation responses. It sets no new tariffs, so read it as the framework for future decisions rather than a price change.

The £37 million road programme: 28 sites now 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.

The council’s own programme page is the running scoreboard. On 13 October it still read:

  • 19 of the 45 resurfacing sites listed for 2026/27 are marked Completed
  • 9 of the 17 structural patching sites are marked Completed
  • the remaining 26 resurfacing sites and 8 patching sites carry a live link to the one.network map

Those counts have not moved since 5 September, re-checked on 13 October. In that time the September order scheduled more than a dozen roads, including Welsh Court Road at Yatton and the A417 at Felton, both still shown with a live link rather than as Completed. Read the page as a slow-moving record, not a live one.

The council states that the map links only go live about ten days before work is due to start. The city entries, A465 Belmont Road, Gaol Street and Hillary Drive and Bonington Drive, still carry live links, although their scheduled September dates have passed.

The council does not publish start dates on the scheme pages themselves, and it flips entries to Completed without any announcement. The statutory notices are where the dates live.

The bypass, and the Holme Lacy Road scheme

On 4 August 2026 the council published the Full Business Case for Phase One of the Hereford Bypass. 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 names the residential roads it expects to carry less traffic as a result: Belmont Road, Walnut Tree Avenue and Holme Lacy Road. Belmont Road has just had 10 nights of resurfacing closures in September.

The council’s bypass page still says construction of Phase One is scheduled to begin in December 2026, with planning permission secured. But no construction contract has been awarded.

On 24 September Cabinet approved the update report’s recommendations. It noted progress and handed the Corporate Director for Economy and Environment the power to finish “corrective action” with the contractor, to bring the construction works and costs within budget. After that he chooses between the two routes the report set out, one of which is a fresh procurement for a new construction contract. We explained what that means and why the costs rose. The call-in period ran to 30 September. The council’s decision page was down when we checked on 6 October, so we could not confirm its final status. Phase Two, which would complete the route and bring a second Wye crossing, has no construction date.

On 26 August the council said the first two phases of the Holme Lacy Road scheme were expected to be complete during August, subject to final checks, and that work on the full scheme continues to winter 2027. In May the council had put the scheme at around 30% complete with a winter or spring 2026/27 finish, so the completion date has moved back by roughly a year on the council’s own statements. The work includes:

  • full resurfacing between Oak Crescent and Thorn Business Park
  • new high-friction surfacing
  • raised crossings and junction changes to slow traffic
  • a new traffic light junction at Holme Lacy Road, Chestnut Drive and Hoarwithy Road
  • drainage work near the railway bridge, where flooding has been a recurring problem, and traffic lights letting one direction through at a time

The council says the aim is not to reduce the number of vehicles using Holme Lacy Road but to improve flow at key points. It has published a fly-through video of the finished route.

Walking, cycling and the city centre schemes

In May 2026 the council gave this position on the five main city schemes. The Holme Lacy Road line has since moved, as above.

Hereford transport schemes and their stage, as reported by Herefordshire Council in May 2026
SchemeStageExpected finish
Great Western Way cycle route, north HerefordConstruction almost complete2026
Hereford Transport HubAround 65% completeOctober 2026
Holme Lacy Road walking and cycling, south HerefordPhases 1 and 2 due complete August 2026Winter 2027
Aylestone Hill walking and cyclingDesign complete, construction from June 2027December 2027
Commercial Road, Blueschool Street and NewmarketDesign work summer 2026, construction from June 2027October 2027

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.

Bus changes that started on 30 August

The council flagged a set of timetable changes taking effect from the end of August, which is worth knowing if a closure pushes you onto a bus:

  • extra evening journeys and better Sunday services on service 23, Newport to Hereford
  • more journeys serving Hereford railway station on service 66, Monmouth to Hereford
  • extra Saturday morning journeys on service 417, Worcester to Ledbury
  • new early morning and evening journeys on service 675, Ledbury to Great Malvern
  • retimed journeys on 32/33 (Gloucester to Ross-on-Wye) and 447/449 (Hereford to Kingstone and Madley)
  • service 844 now serves Brampton Abbots in both directions

Several routes have changed operator without changing timetable. Newport Transport now runs the 413/812, 436 and 448 into Hereford, and D Belfitt Commercials runs the 31, 54, 436 (Breinton), 456/457, 459, 478 and 479 across south and east Herefordshire.

Common questions

What roads are closed in Hereford right now?

Norbury Place is shut from Old Eign Hill until around 20 November. The Commercial Road and Blueschool Street junction is open under temporary lights until 4 December. The College Road footbridge is shut, and the road bridge beside it is one-way from College Road towards Widemarsh Street. Coming up: Holme Lacy Road for four days from 6 November, and Friars Street overnight on 16 November.

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’s bypass page says construction of Phase One is scheduled to begin in December 2026, but no construction contract has been awarded. On 24 September Cabinet gave a senior officer the power to settle costs with the current contractor or go back out to tender. Phase One is a 3.6km link between the A49 and A465 serving Rotherwas. Phase Two has no date.

How do I object to a Herefordshire traffic order?

In writing, by the deadline in the notice, to the address it gives. Most go to trafficengineering@herefordshire.gov.uk or the Road Safety and Traffic Engineering Team, Plough Lane, Hereford HR4 0LE. Some orders are handled by ADL Traffic and Highways Engineering instead, so check the notice. The next deadline is noon on Friday 30 October, for the Blue Badge bay in Bromyard’s Market Square. Say what you object to and why. Letters of support are accepted on the same terms.

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.

Sources

Durations in the orders are what the council expects, not guarantees, and the council says definitive dates and times will be given by advance warning signs on site. Where a notice is marked as an intention above, the order had not been made when we checked.