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The Aldi “Ashby 20“, a 20-mile road running race, will be held on Sunday 19th March 2017, starting at 10am. About 1,500 runners will take part, and there are road closures for safety, for a likely maximum period from about 8am to about 3pm.
Runners come from Ashby, go down Mill Street, then do two anti-clockwise laps of the roughly-circular course shown on the map below. The anti-clockwise left side of all roads of the circle are CLOSED during the race. Roads are open in the opposite clockwise direction. In Heather village, traffic may flow alternately in both directions using Stop / Go boards. At the Bull & Lion on their second lap runners turn up High Street, Packington and on to their finish at Ashby. There is a full schedule of Road Closure details in the table below the map:
|
Place |
Roads affected |
Approximate Timings |
|
Ashby de la Zouch |
Upper Packington Road from Leicester Road to Lower Packington Road – ROAD CLOSED |
09:55 – 10:05 10 mins |
|
Ashby to Packington |
Ashby Road from Lower Packington Road to Mill Street in Packington. |
10:00 – 10:10 10 mins |
|
Packington |
Mill Street – ROAD CLOSED |
9:05 – 10:15 1 hr 10 mins |
|
Packington |
Measham Road (end of Mill Street) to Five Lane Ends |
09:00 – 12:30 3½ hrs |
|
Gallows Lane |
Gallows Lane from Five Lane Ends to Swepstone Road |
09:00 – 13:30 4½ hrs |
|
Swepstone Road to Heather |
From Gallows Lane to Main Street, Heather |
09:00 – 13:30 3½ hrs |
|
Heather |
Main Street is OPEN in BOTH directions with a 1 metre strip coned off for runners, and use of Stop/Go boards |
09:00 – 13:30 3½ hrs |
|
Heather to Normanton and Packington |
Normanton Road through Normanton to Heather Lane, Packington |
9:00 – 14:10 5 hrs |
|
Packington |
Heather Lane and Bridge St through to Measham Rd |
09:00 – 14:10 5 hrs |
|
Packington |
High Street |
09:00 – 14:15 5¼hrs |
The official Temporary Traffic Order is until 5pm and roads will close and reopen in sequence to keep the closures to a minimum duration.
Our 3rd annual bake off will take place here at the Unit on Friday 10th March 2017 from 9.00am. It’s also a coffee morning, selling hot drinks and cakes made by our staff. All proceeds to go to a local homeless charity.
Please come and join us!
The Medical Unit is closed for staff training on Wednesday afternoon 15th March 2017. Continue reading ‘Measham Medical Unit News March 2017’ »
Continue reading ‘ACTION Workshop on HS2 – Have YOUR Say on Saturday 25th February 2017’ »
Our 2017 Programme leaflet is shown below:
Continue reading ‘Garden Society in Packington – 2017 Programme’ »
Special Interest items amongst the boring stuff:
The plan for 2017 for the Table Tennis club is to change the club night from Thursday to Wednesday night – the time remains the same 19:15 – 21:15.
Every Wednesday is booked at the Memorial Hall for club nights until 31st May 2017.
Continue reading ‘Table-Tennis Club – Wednesdays 7:15 pm to 9:15 until 31st May 2017’ »
Special Interest items amongst the bureaucracy stuff:
Picture shows the crammed Memorial Hall Meeting on Friday 6th January 2017 where villagers heard from our Parish Councillors, our District Councillor Nigel Smith, and our MP Andrew Bridgen, about the planned change in the HS2 route which brings it even nearer to Packington. We hope to bring you more details in Packington Post magazine later this month.
Meantimes, keep up to date with the MAPA HS2 Action Group website
