Overnight clean-up removes nearly 14 tonnes of waste from the A12
The scale of the challenge of litter on the country’s roads has been highlighted by a clean-up on a six mile stretch of the A12, leading to the collection of 14 tonnes of rubbish. Colchester City Council carried out a large-scale four-night clean-up of the A12, with seven council officers working to remove litter and […]
Additional £86m pledged to complete new Colchester A-road
An extra £86m has been announced to complete a new A-road near Colchester in Essex, that could link a new garden community with two major routes. In 2019, the government provided £99.9m for the new A1331 dual carriageway link road that will connect the A133 and the A120, says the BBC, but by the time […]
New homes could overwhelm Colchester road network, says councillor
A traffic expert has warned Colchester and Wivenhoe’s roads could buckle under plans for more than 9,000 new homes. Wivenhoe town councillor Rick Andrew told a Local Plan meeting the area cannot cope with the extra traffic, says the Colchester Gazette. Focusing on the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community, he said: “I don’t object to the […]
Essex: Traffic lights on damaged bridge accrue £367,000 bill
More than £365,000 has been spent running traffic lights on a bridge damaged five years ago, the BBC can reveal. The bill has been accumulated by National Highways on Severalls Lane bridge that runs over the A12 in northern Colchester, Essex. The structure was closed five days after the UK went into lockdown in March […]
A12 upgrade in doubt as £1.3 billion revamp ‘under review’
The £1.3 billion revamp of one of the busiest routes in the east of England is now uncertain following a government announcement of a review into transport infrastructure. National Highways had been planning to expand the A12, which runs between Chelmsford and the A120 near Colchester in Essex, from two lanes to three in each […]
Octavius awarded new £27m Link Road for Essex County Council
Octavius has been awarded the first phase of the new A1331 near Colchester to the east of the University of Essex. The project will provide a 1.8km dual carriageway road between a new roundabout on the A133 and the new ‘Allen’s Farm Roundabout’ to the north. The project provides the initial infrastructure for the planned […]
Essex questions A12 widening plans
Council leaders in Essex have written to the head of National Highways to express what they call significant concerns about proposals for two sections of the A12 which are planned to be detrunked and transferred to Council control. The leaders of Essex County Council, Braintree District Council and Colchester City Council said the plans for […]