CEREDIGION County Council has heeded residents’ demands for a narrow road near Penrhyncoch to be widened before a £40m development goes ahead.

Calls were made for the the “pinch point” on the C1010 road between the A4159 crossroads and the IBERS campus at Gogerddan to be widened before an Innovation and Enterprise Campus is built.

The council has now announced the imminent closure of the road for around four months.

However, the council has warned that the road could remain closed for 18 months.

Traffic coming in and out of Penrhyncoch will be diverted along the U1064, a road which bypasses the crossroads and is primarily used as a short cut between Penrhyncoch and Bow Street.

Planning documents approved in October reveal that construction firm TRJ Ltd will not use the C1010 for site access when construction commences, as was feared by some residents, but will instead use the U1064.

The Cambrian News reported in July that while Aberystwyth University had agreed to provide the land necessary to widen the road, it would not pay to carry out the works.

In November, the council confirmed it had included improvements to the C1010 in its highways capital programme for this financial year, but did not say whether the works would be carried out before or after construction started on the AIEC.