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Temporary Closure of Roads in Stromness for Stromness Shopping Week Events 2025

Date: 17 July 2025

Time: 01:00

Notice is hereby given that Orkney Islands Council has made an order in terms of section 62 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 to the effect that, in connection with various Stromness Shopping Week events, the roads in Stromness specified in the Schedule below will be closed between the hours on the dates all as specified in the said Schedule.


Between Tuesday 22 July 2025 to Sunday 27 July 2025, there will also be (1) a temporary suspension of The Orkney Islands Council (Pierhead, Stromness) (Prohibition of Driving) Order 2014 and (2) the introduction of a temporary one-way traffic order to enable traffic to drive in an easterly direction from Victoria Street, Stromness to Ferry Road, Stromness. Traffic signs will be erected to indicate when a road is closed. Emergency service vehicles are exempt from the prohibition.

Schedule

DATE

TIME

ROAD/AREA

22 July 2025

15.30 - 19.30

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street (No14 Victoria Street to Church Road)

23 July 2025

09:30 - 16:00

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street (No14 Victoria Street to Church Road)

23 July 2025

11.30 - 14.00

Church Road, Graham Place, Dundas Street, Alfred Street, South End, Ness Road

23 July 2025

17.30 - 22.30

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street (No14 Victoria Street to Church Road)

24 July 2025

09.30 - 16.30

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street (No14 Victoria Street to Church Road)

24 July 2025

18.00 - 23.30

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street (No14 Victoria Street to Church Road)

25 July 2025

09.30 - 21.00

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street (No14 Victoria Street to Church Road)

25 July 2025

16.00 - 21.00

Church Road, Graham Place, Dundas Street, Alfred Street, South End, Ness Road, Victoria Street

26 July 2025

10.00 - 16.00

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street, Graham Place, Dundas Street, Church Road

26 July 2025

16.00 - 23.59

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street (No14 Victoria Street to Church Road)

26 July 2025

17.30 - 19.30

Back Road (Netherton Road to Ness Road)

26 July 2025

17.30 - 21.30

Victoria Street, Graham Place, Dundas Street, Church Road, John Street, North End Road, Cairston Road

27 July 2025

00.00 - 01.00

Ferry Road (Ferry Terminal car park exit to Victoria Street), Victoria Street (No14 Victoria Street to Church Road)

Oliver Reid
Chief Executive.
Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY.

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