Roadworks are set to get underway next week along a notoriously busy road in High Wycombe to create access roads for a huge new housing estate currently being built.

Traffic calming measures in Daws Hill Lane will be installed as part of the 441-home Pine Trees development site in Daws Hill.

Despite some of the 14-week project falling in the summer holidays, motorists are likely to face lengthy delays on the busy route, which is often gridlocked during school rush hour.

Developer Taylor Wimpey is building a new elongated roundabout, which will create two new access roads into the old RAF Daws Hill site.

The works will also provide two pedestrian crossings and pavement widening along Daws Hill Lane to Austenwood Close.

Work on the roundabout is due to start on Monday, August 3 and is expected to last 14 weeks, with the pavement work being completed afterwards.

The majority of the works will be carried out within the boundary of the old RAF base, but there will be temporary traffic lights in Daws Hill Lane for the duration.

Campaigners against the Pine Trees Development the Daws Hill Neighbourhood Forum lost a bid last year to stop the development from going head.

The group is unhappy at the lack of infrastructure in place to cope with the new development along the already-busy route.

However, Jonathan Miller from Taylor Wimpey insists the measures being taken will help with traffic flow in the long term.

He said: “Once complete, the traffic calming measures will provide significant improvements for road users and pedestrians.

“We apologise for any inconvenience the roadworks may cause, but would like to assure local people that we are working to ensure that the work is carried out as quickly as possible, keeping disruption to an absolute minimum.”

As part of the works, two bus stops – which will also serve as a school drop-off point for St Michael’s School – are being built on the housing site, which developers say will result in less school and bus traffic using Daws Hill Lane.

And the pedestrian crossings will make traffic flow more even, they say.

Information about the traffic calming works is on display for the public to view at Wycombe District Council offices and High Wycombe Library during their normal opening hours.