Project Status - Completed
- Start Date: April 2016
- End Date: June 2017
- Local Growth Fund allocation: £3,356,000
- Awarded to: BCP Council
- Part of the Port of Poole Programme
Project Summary
A £3,356,000 million Local Growth Fund investment at Gravel Hill & Dunyeats on the A349, the main link road into the Port of Poole and the town centre from the A31.
Work covered:
- Stabilising and strengthening embankments
- Increasing capacity for motor vehicles at the Queen Anne junction
- Improving facilities for pedestrians and cyclists
Outputs:
Mildren Construction was appointed as contactor and they carried out the improvement works to strengthen Gravel Hill embankment and address drainage. This involved:
- The major earthworks to widen and stabilise the embankment.
- Refurbishment of the large culvert (man-made piped structure) which carries Blackwater Stream under the road.
- Improvements to the road's surface drainage.
- Widening the existing footway to construct the shared pedestrian/cycle lane to provide the missing cycle link connecting Merley to Poole Town Centre.
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