LONG-awaited work to install a £60,000 traffic calming scheme in Alvechurch is due to start on Monday.

The scheme will see mini roundabouts at the junctions of Birmingham Road, Red Lion Street and Tanyard Lane and also at Snake Lane with Callow Hill Road and Tanyard Lane.

There will also be minor junction improvements at Birmingham Road and a raised platform in Swan Street to slow vehicles down.

The Advertiser reported earlier this year Swan Street was due to be closed in December but this was deferred until after Christmas and put on ice again in February.

This was because Scarfield Hill was closed so bridge-strengthening work could be carried out and there was then work to be done at Grange Lane.

Alvechurch Parish Council is putting £50,000 towards the project, cash from a special fund which had been built up over the last four or five years.

Bromsgrove Council's Highways Partnership Unit manager Jon Fraser said the work was likely to last for about three weeks.