Three Blackpool Transport routes will divert on Saturday as the St Annes Carnival procession makes its way through the town. Services 7, 10, and 11 will follow amended paths while the 104th staging of the annual event closes roads around Clifton Drive North, The Square, and Church Road.
The main procession steps off at 10:30 from Clifton Drive North and travels through The Square before climbing Church Road and returning via St Andrews Road South and Wood Street. Blackpool Transport advises anyone travelling to or through St Annes and Lytham to allow more time or consider alternative options.
The carnival, which runs from 10 to 12 July, has adopted a retro theme spanning the roaring twenties to the neon eighties. After the parade, Ashton Gardens hosts the remainder of the weekend’s entertainment, including the crowning of the new Carnival Queen at 1.30pm.
The diversions add to existing disruption on route 10, which is already following an altered course because of a long-term closure on Kilnhouse Lane. Lancashire County Council shut the junction with Queensway until 21 September to improve access to the Richmond Point housing development, a scheme the highways authority says allows work to progress faster while limiting complex traffic management on Queensway.
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