Drivers in Winchester should brace themselves for chaos and congestion over the next three months.

Highway chiefs have warned that improvements in Chesil Street and Bar End Road for Hampshire County Council are scheduled to start on April 22nd and last for 12 weeks.

The work will involve the use of one-way working traffic signals in off-peak times, and three evening road closures from 7pm-10pm, most probably the last week in May.

The scheme involves:

* A new signal-controlled puffin pedestrian crossing to replace the zebra crossing at the East Hill junction;

* A new signal-controlled puffin pedestrian crossing in Bar End Road on the city side of the Milland Road junction;

* Amendments to the Milland Road junction to make the sight line easier for exiting drivers;

* A new footway alongside The Heart in Hand public house from Milland Road to the Serco depot;

* A new mini-roundabout at the Barfield Close junction;

* A new refuge crossing at its junction with Magdalen Hill;

* A widened footpath alongside Chesil Theatre;

* Resurfacing of the carriageway between the Theatre and Avalon House;

* A small layby outside Avalon House;

* Repaving the footway outside Avalon House;

* Removal of one of the kerbed islands at the Barfield Close junction;

* The widening of the footway outside numbers 48-52.