Small Highway Improvement Schemes (LTP Contract)

The Local Transport Plan (LTP) five year plan sets out an ambitious programme of improvements to the highway infrastructure for the County. We have worked in partnership with Arup to design and construct highway improvement schemes. Arup specialists have assisted with contract preparation, while a number of engineers work within the Highway Design Section helping us to work effectively towards our targets within the current term contract. The contractor for the current term contract is G McVeigh & Co Limited, based in Stratford upon Avon.

An integrated team within the Highways Group is responsible for implementing small highway works for the Local Transport Plan. This is carried out using an innovative term framework contract which has the primary aim of progressing a large number of small to medium sized schemes to site within a very short time scale, delivering in partnership with the contractor a cost effective method of procuring the required construction works.

The work carried out under the contract consists of road safety and accident reduction schemes, quality bus routes, up-grading existing traffic signal equipment, upgrading existing and providing new signalised pedestrian crossings, providing and improving facilities for pedestrians and cyclists, small highway improvements and environmental enhancement projects. The majority of these works are funded directly by the County Council.

Current Schemes

Umberslade Road/Earlswood Common Junction, Earlswood

Safety Improvements

Temporary traffic lights in operation

Completion:  November 2011

Completed Schemes

Puffin Crossing on Coleshill Road, Hartshill. Completed in April 2011

 

Junction improvements and Cycleway on Projects Drive, Rugby. Completed in July 2011.

 

Environmental enhancement works at Old School House, Bishops Tachbrook. Completed in April 2011.

 

Changes to Traffic Calming on Mill Hill, Baginton. Completed in May 2011.

 

Pedestrian Improvements on Castle Lane, Warwick. Completed in May 2011.

To view information on road safety engineering schemes please click on the following link to theCurrent Schemes.

To view a copy of the five year Local Transport Plan and watch a video clip click on the followingLocal Transport Plan 2006-2011

For more information please email highwaydesign@warwickshire.gov.uk or telephone 01926 476822
.

Black Path footbridge

Warwickshire County Council are pleased to announce that Black Path Footbridge in Rugby has been reopened on 30th June 2009 following reconstruction of the South Span over Web Ellis Bussiness Park. This is a multispan bridge over the West Coast Main Line and provides a link between Wood Street on the south side and the Web Ellis Industrial Estate on the North.

The project also boasts a new approach ramp which brings this section of the structure up to current standards for inclusion for the mobility impaired. Similar improvements to the North Access to the structure are being progressed by Rugby Borough Council and Sustrains. This will mean that ultimately the whole bridge will be a shared cycle and pedestrian facility.

Demolition work underway on the existing Black Path bridge

Although completion was expected earlier this spring, the main contractor Danaher and Walsh Ltd. and the Bridge Fabricator, Allerton Steel (formerly Allerton Bridges) have been successful in finishing the works inside the budget of £650,000

Night time working as the new bridge is lifted into place.

Night time working as the new bridge is lifted into place

A426 Corporation Street, Rugby – ASDA Development

Rugby Borough Council granted ASDA, part of the WAL*MART family of companies, planning permission for a new supermarket off Corporation Street, Rugby, next to the Central Surgery. A condition of the permission granted calls for a new signalised traffic junction to allow access to the retail development off the existing dual carriageway. The scheme is being wholly funded by WAL*MART.

Access to the supermarket included widening the existing dual carriageway to provide a left turn lane for vehicles. The highway works are substantially complete but further work is still being carried out on Drury Lane and Warwick Street to improve pedestrian areas.

The works comprised highway drainage, resurfacing, street lighting, road markings and signing. The works also involved a considerable number of underground service diversions, including electricity cables, water mains, sewers, gas mains and telecommunications apparatus.

The original contract was awarded to Wrekin Construction Limited and Phase 1 of the contract was completed on the 22 September 2008. Wrekin Construction Limited were put in to administration in early 2009. Phase 2 of the works were retendered and awarded to Carillion Highway Maintenance Limited who commenced on 11 May 2009 and these works were substantially completed on the 18 June 2009.

Below are drawings indicating the scheme which have been produced by external consultants employed by ASDA. You can view an Acrobat file of the plans by following the links below. The size of the files vary from 219kb up to 1mb and depending on the speed of your connection, may take a while to download.

Corporation Street Phase 1 works (pdf, 232kb)

Corporation Street Phase 2 works (pdf, 219kb)

Minor highway works (pdf, 233kb)

General construction layout (pdf, 1mb)

Temporary pedestrian crossing (pdf, 577kb)

Corporation Street signalised junction (pdf, 685kb)

Bilton Road and Lawford Road signalised junction (pdf, 376kb)

For more information on the project please email highwaydesign@warwickshire.gov.uk or telephone 01926 416822.

A4071 Bilton Road, Rugby New Signalised Junction for Housing Development

Rugby Borough Council granted George Wimpey Homes Limited planning permission for a housing development off Bilton Road, Rugby. A condition of the permission granted required a new signalised traffic junction to allow access to the residential development. The new junction is located on Bilton Road at its existing junction with Buchannan Road. The scheme was wholly funded by George Wimpey Homes.

The works consisted of realigning and widening Bilton Road and constructing a new access road for the housing development. A new length of box culvert was also built to divert the watercourse of Sow Brook under the realigned section of Bilton Road. In addition, the works included an up-grading of the existing traffic signals on Bilton Road at the junction with Lytham Road and May Lane.

It was agreed following public consultation, that no work would be carried out on the residential service road. However, if traffic problems arise, then calming measures on the service road may need to be considered to reduce either traffic flows or the speed of vehicles using it.

The contract was undertaken by Carillion Regional Civil Engineering who have offices at Shawell off the A5 Watling Street near Lutterworth. The road and culvert works commenced on the 21st May 2007, and were completed in October 2008.

Bilton Road scheme layout (pdf, 684kb)

For general enquiries please email highwaydesign@warwickshire.gov.uk or telephone 01926 416822.