Businesses and residents will be hit by a massive paper charm offensive by council chiefs after the completion this weekend of the multi-million pound Station Approach link road scheme.

The traffic pain finally ends in the early hours of Sunday (May 3) with a new one-way system that marks the final stages of a council plan to bring Wokingham town centre into the 21st century.

There will be new ‘turning rules’ for Shute End station and the Wellington, Barkham and Oxford Roads.

Planners say it will ease traffic congestion and create safer routes for pedestrians and cyclists.

There will be 18,000 letters explaining the scheme to businesses and households, along with flyers and posters distributed in the town centre car parks, railway station and bus firms.

Station Road and Wellington Road will reopen after midnight on Sunday, May 3.

Matt Davey, head of highways, praised members of the public for their patience during the ‘huge project.’ He said the work has seen the arrival of: “a new train station, transport facilities at the front; a new road between the station forecourt and Reading Road, a new junction and a remodelled stretch of Reading Road and Shute End reconfigured where it meets with reading Road, and the junctions of Oxford, Barkham, Wellington and Station Roads completely redesigned.”