Cheshire East link road project scoops top accolade

Cheshire East Council’s biggest ever infrastructure scheme has won a top award. The £90m Congleton link road project team won the Civil Engineering Contractors’ North West award for ‘social value’, which recognises exceptional partnership work delivering local community initiatives.  The project team, consisting of Cheshire East Council and contractor Graham staff, supported an array of […]

Tarmac provides specialist asphalt to Cheshire infrastructure project

Tarmac has successfully supplied and installed a specialist asphalt surface course to the largest infrastructure project East Cheshire has seen to date. Laid with the assistance of paver averaging beams to provide the best possible finished surface, Tarmac supplied and laid 12,000 tonnes of the specialist asphalt as part of a 79,000-tonne surfacing package. In […]

Congleton link road opens to traffic

The £90m Congleton link road has now opened to traffic. The new highway joins the A534 Sandbach Road to the west and the A536 Macclesfield Road to the north, opening up connectivity and improving travel between Macclesfield, Congleton and the M6. It will release 20 hectares of new employment land with the potential to create 3,000 jobs by […]

Congleton Link Road to open to vehicles in April

The opening date of the £90m Congleton Link Road has been revealed – along with its historic new name. The 5.5km route will open for the public to walk and cycle along on Friday 16 April and that weekend, before opening to vehicles on Monday 19 April and will be named Wolstenholme Elmy Way – […]