Planned Work on the A6 Roundabout at the Junction with Fallow Road on the Woodland Valley Development

The following was sent to the RNWP by Marcus Grant at Persimmon Homes to explain the work to finalise the roundabout on the A6 to enable through traffic from the B576.

This is an update on the A6 roundabout, and importantly an update on the traffic management required to complete.

 

1.      Jan 11^th – Temporary two way nights on the southern side of the new roundabout – 5 days to complete the tie in and road cambers. (Manual control during busy periods). These works are to connect the new road to the old road at the southern end, so that the traffic can get up to the new roundabout. 

 

2.      Jan 16^th 00:00am to 06:00am (overnight road closure)  – A6 closure to adjust safety barriers to higher elevation (new road alignment), white lining so the traffic flow can be diverted to the new road.

 

3.      Jan 16^th – Traffic management and two way lights set up for approx. 8 weeks. Programmed works are for 6 weeks so we are aiming for an earlier completion. (Manual control during busy periods). The plan for this is attached, to the south of the roundabout it will be two way traffic, with the north of the roundabout where the temporary signals are. You may have seen tarmacking works happening to allow for this, this week.

 

4.      Early March, road fully open under existing temp 30mph limit and localised traffic management works to completion. At this point we will open up the roundabout for our construction traffic, so no more lorries etc through the towns heading to our development.

 

I fully appreciate that before we started these works, I said we’d be able to keep the A6 open and running 2 way traffic throughout with exceptions only every now and again. This was always the original plan, however due to the height of the new roundabout from the current A6 and the banking, it’s unfortunately just turned out to not be possible despite best laid plans.

 

I understand that this will inevitable put traffic through your towns. I have stressed to our contractor how important it is that the temporary signals are operated efficiently. Our ANPR system will remain in use to ensure that our construction traffic continues to use the A6. I’ve chased our ANPR company today for recent reports and told them that we need the reports weekly to be effective, I will again reinforce this with them so that we can tackle any issues early on with offenders which will become even more important with this traffic management.

 

Thanks 

 

Marcus Grant

Technical Manager | Midlands Division 

 

Persimmon Homes - Charles Church