ALL but one of the car parks in Chester city centre will be open for the Olympic Torch event on May 29.

But demand will be exceptionally high because no vehicles are permitted on the racecourse.

Cheshire West and Chester Council has recommended drivers use Park and Ride sites in the area, which will all be open until midnight.

All Park and Ride buses will visit the Little Roodee car park from 3pm, and all departures after 7pm will be from there.

City centre car parks will remain open until midnight on May 29, with the exception of Watergate Street car park which will be closed.

The following roads will be closed because of the event:

Nuns Road – Grosvenor Street to Black Friars – is closed from 10am on May 27 until 10pm on May 30.

The following lengths of road will be closed from 10.30am to 8pm on May 29:

Northgate Street – Princess Street to Eastgate Street

Eastgate Street – Northgate Street to The Eastgate

St Werburgh Street – Northgate Street to Eastgate Street

Foregate Street – The Eastgate to St John Street

St John Street – Foregate Street to Little St John Street

Watergate Street – Bridge Street to Nicholas Street

Bridge Street – from six metres north of Feathers Lane to Watergate Street.

Also closed to east bound traffic from 5.30-6.30pm on May 29 to east bound traffic will be the following:

Chester Street – from River Lane/Boundary Lane to Overleigh Roundabout

Hough Green.

The following lengths of road will be closed from 6-7pm on May 29:

Handbridge – Queens Park Road to Lower Bridge Street

Lower Bridge Street – Handbridge to Grosvenor Street/Pepper Street

Castle Drive – Little Roodee car park to Lower Bridge Street

Souters Lane – Little St John Street to The Groves

The Groves – from 123 metres north-east of Lower Bridge Street to the Queens Park Suspension Bridge

The roads closed from 4.30pm to midnight on May 29 are:

Watergate Street – Nicholas Street to New Crane Street

New Crane Street – Watergate Street to Sealand Road

Sealand Road – New Crane Street to Stadium Way

Nuns Road – Black Friars to Watergate Street

City Walls Road – Stanley Place to Watergate Street.