A3 northbound shut overnight Hazel Grove to Thursley, 5 to 8 October, and both Liss southbound slips close 7 October. Southbound closures follow from 9 October.
The A3 northbound resurfacing closures are back. National Highways’ scheme page says the northbound phase finished on 26 September, but its seven day closure report books the A3 northbound shut overnight between Hazel Grove and Thursley on the nights of Monday 5 to Thursday 8 October, 9pm to 6am, under the same “Hogs Back to Longmoor” resurfacing scheme. Where the two disagree, the report is the one that says what is actually shut on a given night.
Closer to home, both southbound slip roads at Liss shut on the night of Wednesday 7 October, 9pm to 6am, for maintenance. The full southbound closures between the Hog’s Back and Longmoor are still due from Friday 9 October.
In Petersfield itself, Footpath 32’s access point at the Heath Road East and Pulens Lane junction has been closed since 1 October and stays shut to 17 December for works on the junction. The objection period for the scheme’s four road humps closes on Friday 9 October.
The longest road closure in the district is still Farnham Road in Alton, shut since 18 September under an emergency order with no signed alternative route. The order runs out on Thursday 8 October, and the county has published nothing since to say it has reopened.
This page tracks the Petersfield roadworks and closures that actually affect the drive in and out, from the A3 down to a single village lane. It is rebuilt from the orders themselves every time it is updated.
Checked against National Highways’ seven day closure report covering the nights of 2 to 8 October, its Hindhead Tunnel scheme page, and Hampshire County Council’s East Hampshire public notices, all read on 3 October 2026.
What is closed on the A3 this week
Every closure below runs overnight. The weekend is quiet on our stretch: the only A3 closures on the nights of 3 and 4 October are at Wisley and Painshill, near the M25.
| Night of | What closes | Hours | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 5 to Thu 8 Oct | Northbound carriageway, Hazel Grove to Thursley | 9pm to 6am | Resurfacing |
| Mon 5 to Thu 8 Oct | Northbound carriageway at Longmoor, between the exit and entry slips | 9pm to 6am | Resurfacing |
| Mon 5 to Thu 8 Oct | Northbound Hazel Grove entry slip | 9pm to 6am | Hindhead Tunnel maintenance |
| Tue 6 Oct | Northbound Chalton exit and entry slips, and the Queen Elizabeth Country Park exit and entry slips | 9pm to 6am | Drainage |
| Wed 7 Oct | Southbound Liss exit and entry slips | 9pm to 6am | Maintenance |
| Thu 8 Oct | Southbound Berelands exit and entry slips | 9pm to 6am | Maintenance |
Three things to know about that list.
- Monday to Thursday nights, northbound is the problem. The report closes the carriageway from Hazel Grove to Thursley, which takes in the Hindhead Tunnel, and also closes the main carriageway at Longmoor between its slips, so traffic there has to go off and back on at the junction. The report does not give a diversion for these nights, and the scheme page’s published northbound diversion (off at Longmoor, A325, B3004, A31) was written for a closure from Longmoor, not from Hazel Grove. Follow the signs on the night.
- Tuesday night takes out the junctions south of town. The northbound Chalton and Queen Elizabeth Country Park slips are both shut for drainage, so anyone coming up from Horndean or Clanfield late that evening cannot join the A3 at either.
- Wednesday night is the Liss one. Both southbound slips at Liss close, 9pm to 6am. Last week’s Liss closure was the northbound pair; this one is the other side.
Further north, well outside the district, the report also closes the northbound carriageway at Wisley and Painshill on the nights of 3 and 4 October, the southbound Painshill slips on 5 and 6 October, and Wisley link roads to the M25 on 5, 7 and 8 October.
The report runs only to the night of Thursday 8 October, so the first night of the southbound closures, Friday 9 October, is not in it yet. That date comes from the scheme page alone.
Road closures now and in the next fortnight
Every entry below comes from the temporary closure order itself, not from a works sign. Hampshire publishes an order duration of six months as standard. The figure that matters is the shorter expected length in brackets, which is the one used here.
| Road | Section closed | From | Expected length | Works |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farnham Road, Alton | Farnham Road off-slip to Montecchio Way | 18 September | To 8 October at most (emergency order) | Not stated |
| Footpath 32, Petersfield | Access point at the Heath Road East and Pulens Lane junction | 1 October | To 17 December | Junction works |
| Smithy Lane, Headley | Picketts Hill to Heath Hill | 5 October | Up to 4 weeks, 8am to 4pm | South East Water borehole cleaning |
| Pookles Lane, Worldham | Worldham Hill to the road's end | 5 October | Up to 9 days, 24 hours a day | Waterlink water pipe renewal |
| Bereleigh House Road, East Meon | Riplington Lane to Old Down Lane | 16 October | 1 day, 8am to 6pm | Circet pole replacement |
Four of those need reading twice.
- Farnham Road in Alton is the serious one. It was closed on 18 September under section 14(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act, the power the county uses when a road has to shut “without delay due to the likelihood of danger to the public or the risk of serious damage to the road”. The notice gives the closed section as Farnham Road between the Farnham Road off-slip at Bentley and the junction with Montecchio Way. It states the alternative route as “N/A” and does not say what the problem is. The notice runs to Thursday 8 October, and as of 3 October the county had published nothing to say it has reopened or to extend it.
- Footpath 32 is the first sign of the Pulens Lane scheme on the ground. The order closes the path’s access point at the junction “to enable works to take place on the junction of Heath Road East and Pullens Lane”, from 1 October until 17 December or until the works finish. Other access points stay open. The county has not published a closure order for the road itself, and its scheme page, last updated in July, still says only that the work is programmed for autumn 2026.
- Pookles Lane at Worldham has no alternative route, and its order allows nine days of round the clock closure from 5 October while Waterlink renews a water supply pipe.
- Bereleigh House Road is new this week. A one day closure from 16 October between Riplington Lane and Old Down Lane, with those two lanes as the signed alternative, so Circet can replace a pole.
What has come off the list since last week
- Last week’s A3 slip closures at Longmoor, Hazel Grove, Griggs Green, Liss and Liphook were booked for the nights of 28 September to 1 October and are not in the current report.
- Five local closures we carried on 23 September (Tilmore Road and the Swan Street car park footpath in Petersfield, the A272 at Langrish, Westbrooke Road in Alton and Oxenbourne Lane at East Meon) have run past the length their own orders allowed. The county has published no extension for any of them, so they should be open, though a six month order gives a contractor room to overrun.
Footpaths and byways
- Part of Clanfield byway 702 is closed until March. The county shut it on 21 September under the emergency power, then made an order running from 25 September to 21 March 2027, for a path improvement project. That is a six month closure of a byway open to all traffic, and it is the longest rights of way closure now live in the district.
- Part of East Meon BOAT 42 stays closed until 9 October for surface and drainage improvements.
- Part of East Meon footpath 34 has been extended. The original closure covered clearance of dead and dying ash trees; the extension runs from 17 August for three months, so into the middle of November, and it was directed by the Secretary of State for Transport rather than granted by the county.
Two proposals you can still object to
Both notices went up on 18 September and both close on Friday 9 October.
- Four road humps on Heath Road East and Pulens Lane, Petersfield. Raised tables 75mm high on the approaches to the Durford Road crossroads, the statutory step for the £1.4m safety scheme, whose footpath closure at the junction is now in place. Objections in writing quoting reference A2178/JH. We have written this one up in full: four road humps for Pulens Lane.
- A 30mph limit on Dell Piece East and the B2149 Havant Road at Horndean and Clanfield, replacing the national speed limit on 536 metres of Havant Road and 130 metres of Dell Piece East, with 40mph for a further 320 metres south of Pyle Lane. Objections quoting reference C895/KK.
What is closing this autumn
National Highways is part way through the first resurfacing of the Hindhead Tunnel since 2011, along with a new intelligent lighting system, replacement LED road studs and new high friction surfacing on the approaches.
| Dates | What closes | Where the traffic goes |
|---|---|---|
| 7 to 26 September, then 5 to 8 October | A3 northbound, Longmoor junction to the Hog's Back (October nights: Hazel Grove to Thursley, per the closure report) | Off at Longmoor, A325 north through Whitehill and Bordon, B3004 to Alton, A31 east |
| 9 to 30 October | A3 southbound, Hog's Back to Longmoor junction | A31 past Farnham to Alton, B3004 to the A325, then the A325 south to Longmoor |
The scheme page has not been updated since 2 September. It gives the northbound work as 7 to 26 September after a single opening night on 1 September, and the southbound closures as Friday 9 to Friday 30 October, where an earlier published date was 8 November. It does not mention the four further northbound nights, 5 to 8 October, that the closure report now books under the same resurfacing scheme, and it is still written as one closure from Longmoor junction to the Hog’s Back, which is not how the report describes it. Where the two disagree, the report is the one that says what is actually shut tonight.
National Highways puts the diversion at roughly ten extra miles. For the southbound phase it routes traffic off at the Hog’s Back, along the A31 past Farnham to the roundabout in Alton, onto the B3004 towards Sleaford, then right onto the A325 and south to Longmoor. That is the northbound diversion in reverse, and it means three more weeks of long-distance night traffic on the A325 through Whitehill and Bordon and on the B3004 into Alton, on roads that were not built for it.
Residents at Warren Park are escorted through the works when they need to reach their properties, and emergency services have access at all times.
The roads that matter here, closure or no closure
Petersfield is a road junction as much as a town, and five routes do the work:
- The A3 is the spine. Dual carriageway, grade separated, and the reason Petersfield is an hour from London and half an hour from Portsmouth. It is also the road that carries other people’s problems into the district.
- The A272 runs east to west through the town, Winchester one way and Midhurst and Petworth the other. Single carriageway, with no realistic alternative, and National Highways has used it before as a signed diversion into Petersfield during A3 and A31 closures.
- The A325 runs north from the Longmoor junction through Whitehill and Bordon to Farnham. It is the designated A3 diversion and also the main road for the Whitehill and Bordon new town.
- The A32 heads south west from Alton down the Meon Valley to Fareham, the useful route to the M27 that avoids the A3.
- The B2070, the old A3 through Liss, Liphook and Griggs Green, is the local parallel road. It is the one that fills up first when the A3 stops.
Parking in Petersfield
Three weeks after the work was due to finish, the council still has not said whether Central car park is done. East Hampshire District Council’s £100,000 scheme allowed seven working days from 3 September for the town’s largest car park, which holds 418 of the 844 council spaces in Petersfield. That period ended on Friday 11 September. Nothing has appeared since on the council’s news page or its car parking page, and the dates were weather permitting, so check the boards on site before you commit to it. Festival Hall and Swan Street were done in late August. Only Castle Yard, with 57 spaces, was left alone.
The Swan Street footpath should be open again. The path running east from Charles Street into the car park closed on 21 September for up to five days while Stonbury replaced bollards. The order covered the footpath, not the car park.
The council raised its tariffs on 1 April 2026 under an order dated 27 February 2026. Charges apply Monday to Saturday 8am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm. The Sunday position differs by car park, which is the detail most people get wrong.
| Car park | 1 hour | 2 hours | 3 hours | 4 hours | All day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Yard | £1.60 | £2.10 | £2.90 | £4.90 | £10.20 |
| Swan Street | £1.60 | £2.10 | £2.90 | £4.90 | £10.20 |
| Festival Hall | £1.60 | £2.10 | £2.90 | £3.80 | £9.00 |
| Central | — | £2.10 | £2.90 | — | — |
| The Causeway | — | £2.10 | £2.90 | — | — |
Two things follow from that table. Festival Hall is the cheapest long stay in Petersfield: £5.80 for nine hours and £9.00 all day, against £9.00 and £10.20 at Castle Yard and Swan Street. And Central and The Causeway are short stay only, capped at three hours, so they are no use for a working day.
On Sundays, Castle Yard and Festival Hall are free. Swan Street still charges its full weekday tariff, and Central and The Causeway charge £2.10 for two hours or £2.90 for three. If you drive into Petersfield on a Sunday and park in the wrong one, you pay for something the council is giving away 200 metres away.
In Alton, the Sunday split works the same way: Church Street, Vicarage Hill, Victoria Road and Rogers Court are free, while Turk Street, Lady Place, Bank, Mount Pleasant and Manor Road charge £1.50 for any length of stay between 10am and 4pm.
For commuters, the station car park is a separate system again: £9.70 for a peak day, £4.90 off-peak, or £1,354 a year across its 154 spaces.
How to check what is closed today
- National Highways covers the A3 and the Hindhead Tunnel. Its road closure report is a spreadsheet listing the next seven nights, junction by junction, and it is republished twice a day on working days.
- Hampshire County Council is the highway authority for everything else: the A272, the A325, the B2070 and every town street. Filter its public notices to East Hampshire and the live temporary closure orders are on the first page.
- Read the duration of order paragraph, not the notice’s start and end dates. The header dates are the advertising window. The order itself usually runs six months, with a much shorter expected working period in brackets.
- An emergency closure under section 14(2), like Farnham Road in Alton, is different again. It goes up after the road has already shut, it does not have to name a reason, and it does not have to offer a diversion.
- Check the road named in the body, not the heading. Hampshire’s notice for Four Marks was headed “Willis Lane” while the order closed Hammers Lane.
- Closure dates on trunk roads change at short notice, and National Highways says so explicitly. A published date is a plan, not a promise.
Frequently asked questions
What roads are closed in Petersfield right now?
No roads in the town. The access point to Footpath 32 at the Heath Road East and Pulens Lane junction has been closed since 1 October and stays shut until 17 December for works on the junction. In the wider district, Farnham Road in Alton has been shut since 18 September under an emergency order with no alternative route, running to Thursday 8 October at most.
Is the A3 closed near Petersfield?
Northbound, yes, overnight. National Highways’ closure report shuts the A3 northbound between Hazel Grove and Thursley on the nights of Monday 5 to Thursday 8 October, 9pm to 6am, with the main carriageway at Longmoor also closed between its slips. Both southbound slips at Liss close on the night of Wednesday 7 October. The full southbound closures between the Hog’s Back and Longmoor follow from 9 to 30 October.
When does the A3 close southbound?
Friday 9 October to Friday 30 October, overnight, 9pm to 6am, between the Hog’s Back and the Longmoor junction, according to the scheme page. Before that, the southbound Liss slips close on the night of Wednesday 7 October and the southbound Berelands slips on Thursday 8 October, both for maintenance.
What is the diversion when the Hindhead Tunnel closes?
Northbound, leave the A3 at Longmoor, take the A325 north through Whitehill and Bordon, then the B3004 to Alton and the A31 east past Farnham to the Hog’s Back. Southbound is that route in reverse: off at the Hog’s Back, A31 past Farnham to the roundabout in Alton, B3004 towards Sleaford, then the A325 south to Longmoor. National Highways puts it at about ten extra miles.
Where can I park free in Petersfield?
Castle Yard and the Festival Hall car park are free on Sundays, between 10am and 4pm. There is no free council parking in Petersfield on Monday to Saturday.
What is the cheapest all-day car park in Petersfield?
Festival Hall, at £9.00 for a day and £5.80 for nine hours. Castle Yard and Swan Street both charge £10.20 all day and £9.00 for nine hours.
Is Central car park open after the resurfacing?
The council allowed seven working days from 3 September, which ran to Friday 11 September, for Central, the last of the five car parks in its £100,000 resurfacing scheme. Three weeks later it has still published nothing to say the work finished, and the dates were weather permitting, so check the notice boards on site.
Related
- Four road humps for Pulens Lane, the £1.4m safety scheme now at its statutory notice stage, with the objection deadline and how to use it.
- Petersfield trains to London, the alternative when the A3 is shut, with station car park prices.
- Petersfield planning news: the town centre site allocations that include a rebuilt Festival Hall car park.
- Things to do in Petersfield, with parking notes for the ones you drive to.
Sources
- National Highways seven day closure report, the report covering the nights of 2 to 8 October 2026, read on 3 October, for every A3 closure in this week’s table, the Wisley and Painshill closures, and the absence of any closure for the night of 9 October so far.
- National Highways, Hindhead Tunnel, scheme update of 2 September 2026, read on 3 October 2026, for the resurfacing and lighting works, the 7 to 26 September northbound and 9 to 30 October southbound dates, both diversion routes and the Warren Park access arrangement.
- Hampshire County Council public notices, East Hampshire for every temporary closure order named here: Farnham Road, Alton, Westbrooke Road, Alton, Swan Street car park footpath, Petersfield, A272 Winchester Road, Langrish, Tilmore Road, Petersfield, Smithy Lane, Headley, Pookles Lane, Worldham, Oxenbourne Lane, East Meon and Willis Lane, Four Marks and Bereleigh House Road, East Meon. The register was re-read on 3 October 2026, with the Farnham Road, Smithy Lane, Pookles Lane and Bereleigh House Road orders read in full that day.
- Rights of way orders, same register: Petersfield Footpath 32 (the order’s attached notice gives the 1 October to 17 December dates), Clanfield BOAT 702, East Meon BOAT 42 and the East Meon footpath 34 extension.
- Hampshire County Council, Pulens Lane Improvements, Petersfield, last updated July 2026 and read on 3 October 2026, for the autumn 2026 programme.
- Traffic order proposals open for objection to 9 October 2026: road humps in Heath Road East and Pulens Lane, Petersfield (reference A2178/JH) and a 30mph limit on Dell Piece East and the B2149 Havant Road (reference C895/KK).
- East Hampshire District Council, car park line maintenance and repairs, news release of 24 August 2026, for the £100,000 scheme and the 3 to 11 September dates at Central car park. The council’s news index and its car parking page carried nothing further on it when checked on 27 September 2026, and the news index still had nothing on 3 October.
- East Hampshire District Council, Off-Street Parking Places (Variation) Order 2026, dated 27 February 2026, for every Petersfield and Alton tariff, the charging hours and the Sunday exemptions.
- South Western Railway, Petersfield station for the station car park tariff and space count.
Roadworks change week to week and trunk road closures move at short notice. Confirm against National Highways and Hampshire County Council before you travel, and check the tariff on the machine before you pay.
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