A HAMPSHIRE road will remain closed this week as part of a multimillion-pound scheme to build more than 50 new care homes.

Barfield Close, near Winchester city centre, will remain closed until Thursday, including to pedestrians, to allow a tower crane to be removed.

The route is often used to access one of the city’s biggest car parks, the Chesil multi-storey.

The road was closed for five months in January for construction work to take place on the £15million Chesil Lodge development.

It was shut again for four weeks in July as the work continued.

The 52 extra-care flats are due to be completed in autumn this year.