Extensive roadworks will start on the M11 next week, lasting until the end of February next year.

The potentially disruptive plans to resurface sections over 14 miles of the busy motorway will affect anyone using the road between junction 6 for the M25 and junction 8 near Stansted.

Lanes will be closed and speed limits put in place while work is done overnight between 10pm and 6am.

Whole sections of the motorway will be completely closed to traffic on some nights.

Highways England said: “We will do our utmost to complete the works as quickly as possible, avoiding disturbance and keeping noise to a minimum.”

Motorists are advised to allow extra time for their journeys, particularly on the following days when the M11 will be closed at the following sections:

• December 11 and 14 – junction 6 (with the M25)

• December 15 and 16 – A120 southbound link

• January 21 to 27 (not including the weekend) – southbound between junctions 8 (Stansted) and 7 (Harlow)

• January 28 and 29 – A120 northbound link road

• February 17 and 18 – northbound between junction 7 (Harlow) and 8 (Stansted)

There will be diversions in place when the roads are closed.

For closures between junction 7 and 8 southbound, you will be diverted along the A120 west along the A1184 onto the A414 at Harlow before re-joining the M11 at junction 7.

People travelling northbound on the M11 at junction 6 will be diverted onto the M25 anti-clockwise to junction 26 (Waltham Abbey) and return east to re-join the M11 at junction 27.

There will be no work on weekends or over Christmas between 23 December 2015 and 2 January 2016.

For more information contact the Highways England Customer Contact Centre on 0300 123 5000, or email them at info@highwaysengland.co.uk.