Project Status - Completed
- Start Date: September 2015
- End Date: May 2016
- Local Growth Fund allocation: £18,424,130
- Awarded to: Dorset County Council (now Dorset Council)
- Part of the BIG Programme
Outputs:
- Full depth reconstruction of 9km dual carriageway ensuring reduced long term maintenance costs
- Bringing the carriageway widths up to current standards. It varied between 7.1 metres and 7.4 metres but is now a consistent 9.3 metres including adding a one metre hard strip to give extra space for cars to move over for emergency vehicles or in case of breakdowns
- Replacing and upgrading the central safety barrier to concrete, making the road safer and reducing the risk of vehicles involved in accidents crossing into the opposing carriageway
- Improving drainage to solve flooding and ‘ponding’ problems
- Addressing ecological issues, including protected species translocation and migration
- Bridge maintenance
- Renewing road signs, cats eyes and markings
Outcomes:
The stretch of the A338 Spur Road was rebuilt, work completed on time in May 2016, the road now boasts:
- A new lower noise surface layer
- 1 metre hard strip for emergency use
- Improved drainage to reduce flooding and ponding
- New concrete central reserve safety barrier to reduce maintenance and likelihood of crossover accidents
- New road signs, cats’ eyes and road markings
BIG Programme outcomes:
- Transform accessibility to and around Bournemouth Airport and Wessex Fields through extensive transport improvements.
- Release up to 40 hectares of prime, flexible employment land for high-quality new business premises at Aviation Business Park and Wessex Fields.
- Provide the single largest employment opportunity in the south-east Dorset conurbation with the potential to create around 4,000 new highly skilled jobs over the next decade.
- Generate up to £100 million of GVA into the area.
- Deliver around 700 new homes.
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