MOTORISTS are being advised that a village road will be closed to motorists, cyclists and pedestrians from today.
Pasture Lane in Rainford will shut for around ten weeks as significant structural work on a retaining wall gets underway.
It follows floods on Boxing Day 2015, when a gaping hole emerged between the pavement and road after rising flood water from a ditch made its ways underneath the footpath.
It caused a stone retaining wall to move which resulted in the footpath collapsing.
A council spokesman said: "During this time a signed diversion will be in operation, and access to properties and businesses in Pasture Lane that lie on either side of the works will still be possible via the diversion."
The estimated cost of the work could not be covered within the council's budget.
However, funding has now been secured from the Department for Transport, following a motion brought forward at a full-council meeting earlier this year.
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