Golden Acres garden centre at Landford is apologising to the many of its customers who were unable to visit the centre yesterday, Sunday Aug 1, following an unannounced road closure.
On one of the centre’s busiest days, the A36 road from Salisbury to Southampton was closed all day for an eight-mile stretch between Ower and Brickworth, with no diversion available other than to join the A27.
There had been no warning given to the garden centre.
Operations director Simon Edwards said: “We are making attempts to contact the Highway Agency to find out why there was no warning - and to ensure it never happens again.
“Sundays are our busiest day of the week. We lost a lot of business when our customers were unable to reach us.
“We can only apologise to our customers – if there had been warning, we would have tried to contact them by e-mail, through our website or onsite, and provided a different route.”
