TRAFFIC is clogging up in Poole this morning thanks to a temporary road closure while urgent brickwork repairs are carried out.

Drivers are encountering hold ups in the Branksome area while workmen repair brickwork on the viaduct over Surrey Road.

No vehicles are allowed westbound along the road, between Branksome Wood Road and Bourne Valley Road, between 7.30am and 7.30pm today.

Poole council have workmen in the area to carry out urgent brickwork repairs.

Traffic is being re-directed along Coy Pond Road and Gordon Road.