DRIVERS should expect heavy traffic delays with two weeks' of work starting in Frideswide Square on Monday.

Repairs will be carried out on Frideswide Square less than a year on since the £6.7m project finished.

On Monday, traffic lights will be put in place as workers begin two weeks of "minor repairs and alterations".

Oxfordshire County Council’s contractors, Skanska, will alter the kerb line outside the Royal Oxford Hotel along with repairing and strengthening an area which they say has been damaged by vehicles running over the paving.

The team will install a reinforced concrete base to support granite kerbs and Yorkstone slabs outside the hotel along with some new carriageway surfacing and buff colour road ‎markings. 

The council has not said how much this will cost.

County Councillor David Nimmo Smith, Cabinet member for transport, said: "This was an innovative complex scheme and it is not unexpected that minor alterations and repairs are necessary following a period of bedding in.

"It is important to stress that the area we are talking about amounts to just 1 per cent of the total area of Frideswide Square and the rest of this major gateway into Oxford is unaffected.

"The contractors will be working hard in order to get all the work done safely in two weeks."

The carriageway next to the kerbline will be closed to traffic with Hythe Bridge Street and Park End Street open to one way traffic only.

Temporary signals at the Worcester Street/Hythe Bridge Street/George Street junction will be used and the New Road/Park End Street/Worcester Street permanent signals will be temporarily turned off.

Eastbound bus services on Park End Street (towards the city centre) will be diverted to Hythe Bridge Street.

The eastbound bus stops on Park End Street will also be temporarily relocated to Hythe Bridge Street. Westbound services will continue to use and stop on Park End Street.