{"id":673918,"date":"2026-07-04T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673918\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:45:16","slug":"workington-road-closures-as-town-transformation-takes-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673918\/","title":{"rendered":"Workington road closures as town transformation takes shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Road are being shut as a project aimed at creating a more vibrant and pedestrian-friendly town centre nears completion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work, which centres on Workington&#8217;s Murray Road and Central Way, is part of a larger \u00a333m regeneration scheme and includes new landscaping and seating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cumberland Council said that part is drawing to a close, but raised crossing and surfacing works still needed to be done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To support this, a temporary road closure will be in place from the entrance to the multi-storey car park on Central Way between 19:00 and 07:00 BST from Monday 6 July to Saturday 11 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council leader Mark Fryer said: &#8220;These improvements are about creating a town centre that is safer, more attractive and better connected, one that will support businesses, bring more people into the town and benefit our communities for years to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know these works have not always been easy, and we sincerely thank residents, businesses and visitors for bearing with us throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Your patience has made it possible to deliver something that will make a real difference to Workington&#8217;s future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Road are being shut as a project aimed at creating a more vibrant and pedestrian-friendly town centre nears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}