Major roadworks to improve the Chowns Mill roundabout will begin on Monday, 10 February.
Scheduled for completion in Winter 2021/2022, work will take place to:
- widen all approaches and exits to the roundabout
- build an ‘outer’ circulatory to separate traffic movements and improve capacity for trunk road traffic
- install new controlled pedestrian crossing points, covering all arms of the junctions
- install traffic signals
- upgrade street lighting
- install overhead gantries
- install new signing
- implement a 40mph speed limit throughout the junction
Once completed, all road users will benefit from improved road safety which will help to prevent congestion at peak times.
To deliver this scheme efficiently, Highways England will work using a combination of week day, week night and weekend shift patterns. To minimise disruption to local road users and residents, the majority of works will be delivered between Monday and Friday during the day.
How will the work affect traffic?
So that the roundabout is open to traffic and to maintain a safe environment for the workforce and road users, narrow lanes will be installed as well as a 40mph speed restriction on the roundabout and its approaches. Arms of the Chowns Mill roundabout,will be closed in phases, when work needs to be carried out on specific sections of the carriageway.
Station Road into Higham Ferrers (A5028) will be closed for approximately 9 months while we work. This is because we need to significantly lower the level of the road and realign it with the roundabout. This means there will be no access to the Chowns Mill roundabout past Nightingale Way. Bus stops will be relocated during our roadworks and we advise Station Road residents to use the A6 (South) Kimbolton Road roundabout to access their properties.
During the road closures fully signed diversion routes will be in place. All closures will be advertised in advance through road signage, media outlets and the Highways England project webpage.
Motorists are advised to allow extra time for their journeys, especially at peak times.