Glastonbury Festival 2024: Temporary road changes including road closures, speed limit restrictions and one-way orders

Mike Taylor

25 June 2024 at 4:18 am·4-min read

Various changes are being made to routes near Glastonbury Festival to help revellers and residents around the site. The gates to Glastonbury Festival 2024 will open at around 8am Wednesday, June 26, with more than 200,000 people expected to attend the event.

The festival is doing everything possible and working with Somerset Council to reduce queuing but there is only so much capacity on the roads surrounding the site. Somerset Council has published its full list of temporary traffic regulations which aim to minimise the disruption for motorists and revellers.

Some of the temporary measures include implementing one-way traffic on nearby roads, reduce the speed limit on various routes and even closing some roads. You can view the upcoming measures through their roadworks and travel website and download a copy of the Temporary Traffic Regulation Order here.

Somerset Live has broken down the main changes below:

One-Way Traffic Arrangements

These routes will become one-way during certain periods of the festival. They will also continue this days after the festival concludes:

Pylle Lane - One-way westward from the junction with Pylle Road to 70 metres past the A37 junction from 12.01am on June 15 to 4pm on June 30. The route will become one-way eastward from 8am and 4pm on Sunday, June 30 until 9pm on July 1.
Pylle Road - One-way northward from Windinglake Farm to Pylle Lane from 12.01am on June 15 to 4pm on June 30. The route will become one-way northward between 8am and 4pm on Sunday, June 30 and until 10pm on July 1.

The following roads will be alternating one-way traffic control during the event:

Chessell Lane
Copse Lane
Launcherley Road
Lower Westholme Road
Middles Lane
Neat Lane
Perridge Hill
Ridge Lane
Stickleball Lane
Stocks Lane
Tanyard Lane
Stocks Lane

Temporary Prohibition of Driving

The following roads will be closed to motorists during the festival:

Neat Lane - Closed from its junction with the A361 for 20 metres southward from 00:01 on 8th June to 20:00 on 5th July 2024.
A361 at the B3136 junction - Closed eastbound to all but local and service vehicles from 06:00 on 30th June to 22:00 on 1st July 2024.

Roads such as Platterwell Lane, Hedge Lane, and Little Pennard Lane will also have driving restrictions, with exceptions for residents and service vehicles.

No Waiting and Stopping

No waiting or stopping will be permitted on the following roads. Restrictions will be applied at different times and including during peak festival periods.

A361 Fishers Hill and Bere Lane for their entire lengths
A37 from its junction with the A361 (Charlton Crossroads) south to the Whitstone roundabout on the southbound carriageway (East)
Chessell Lane from its junction with Lower Westholme Road to its junction with Stocks Lane.
Launcherley Road from its junction with Middles Lane to its junction with Woodford Road.
Lower Westholme Road from its junction with A361 to its junction with Chessell Lane.
Middles Lane from Barrow Lane to its junction with Launcherley Road.
Southtown Lane for its entire length
Stocks Lane from its junction with Chessell Lane to its junction with Middles Lane
Woodford Road from Launcherley Road to its junction with the A39

Speed Restrictions

A 30mph speed limit will be enforced on the A361 from west of Pilton village to a point 300 metres west of Sawpits Lane from 12.01am on June 25 until 8pm on July 1.

There will be a 30mph speed limit on the A37 between 50m north of Whitestone roundabout to approximately 300 metres south of the crossroads with Hembridge Road. This will be in place from 12.01am on June 25 until 8pm on July 1.

The following roads will have speed restrictions of 30mph or 20mph between 12.01am on June 24 and 8pm on July 1:

Cockmill Lane
Copse Lane
Launcherley Road
Lower Westholme Lane
Middles Lane
Pylle Road
Stocks Lane
Pylle Road

What else is going on?

Right turns will be prohibited at the junction of A361 and A37 (Beardley Batch) between 8am on June 24 and 11.59pm on July 1. Public Footpath SM16/33 across Worthy Farm and Public Footpaths SM16/28 and SM16/30 across Pilton Manor Vineyard will be closed to all traffic until 11.59pm on July 26.

Over previous years, National Highways expects the peak of the busy traffic to be on Wednesday as people head to Worthy Farm. It is anticipated that traffic will be especially busy around junctions 25 and 23 of the M5 along with long queues expected on the A39.

Local roads are also expected to be busy the day after Glastonbury finishes. Residents, festival revellers, visitors and motorists are being advised to plan their journeys ahead of Glastonbury Festival.

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One-Way Traffic Arrangements

Temporary Prohibition of Driving

No Waiting and Stopping

Speed Restrictions

What else is going on?

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