More than 150 homes in Bolton will be hit with planned power cuts from next week to allow network Electricity North West to carry out works.

Electricity North West say houses in Bromley Cross will be affected with cuts while the works take place on Wednesday, April 26.

It will affect 159 homes and businesses, the operator said.

Here are the postcodes that will be affected:

The BL7 0PP, BL7 0PR, BL7 0JX, BL7 0BB, BL7 0PH, BL7 0PL, BL7 0PS, BL7 0PT, BL7 0PW, BL7 0PN, BL7 0PJ, BL7 0PQ, BL7 0PG, BL7 0QZ, BL7 0QY, BL7 0QJ, BL7 0PU, BL1 8NJ, BL7 0FR, BL7 0LA

There will also be another power cut on Thursday, April 27 impacting one house in Bromley Cross.

This will impact the BB3 2TT postcode.

Clive Wilkinson, operations director at Electricity North West, said: “A lot of the work we do happens in the background and customers aren’t always affected, we even have ‘live lines’ teams who can work on live electricity equipment without turning power off, however, sometimes we do have to turn people’s power off so that our engineers can work on the network safely.

“Planned power cuts allow us to carry out vital work such as maintaining the network, carrying out repairs and installing new connections, which ensures that homes and businesses continue to receive the best supply possible in the long term.

“With every planned power cut, we’ll always give at least 10 days’ notice, won’t turn power off before 9am and electricity will be back on before 5pm.

“Unfortunately, not all power cuts are planned and can happen for a variety of reasons with no warning because of the weather, vandalism or even birds hitting overhead lines.

“Our teams are on hand 24/7 365 days a year and should anybody ever need any more information during a power cut, whether planned or not, they can follow Electricity North West on Twitter or Facebook for updates, or call us free on 105.”

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