ULTRA fast broadband installations will cause disruption across Southend’s road networks over the coming weeks whilst the new technology is laid out underneath the city’s highways.

City Fibre, the company which is responsible for laying new cables to improve broadband speeds, will start work in Southend on Monday, October 10.

About £30 million is being spent on the city's full fibre upgrade.

But it will result in significant disruption across Southend for the rest of October, with all approaches to the Cuckoo Corner roundabout – including Princes Avenue, Manners Way, Priory Crescent and Victoria Avenue – undergoing work until the end of the month.

Cuckoo Corner roundabout itself will be reduce to one lane of traffic as opposed to the usual three lanes.

The work is expected to last three weeks, with commuters asked to avoid the area if possible, such is the expected congestion.