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Newark set for £3m roundabout maintenance that will take six months




Safety work on three major Newark roundabouts will begin this month and last until July.

The A46 roundabouts at the cattle market, Brownhills, and the Friendly Farmer junction with the A1 and A17, will be undergoing essential maintenance and having safety improvements carried out.

Work will begin in the third week in January, and is expected to continue for about six months, costing £3m.

A46 roundabout. (6279787)
A46 roundabout. (6279787)

The work will be phased, with one roundabout at a time being improved, and most of the work will take place between 8pm and 5am.

Mr Paul Valentine of nmcm, working on behalf of Highways England, said: “It is not the long-awaited Newark bypass improvement scheme to ease congestion, but all three of the roundabouts will be getting a facelift and all will be re-surfaced.”

He said the work had been carefully planned to keep disruption to a minimum.

“We will be gone by 5am to allow Newark to do its daily work,” he said. “There may be some night work at the weekends as a last resort.”

Official diversion signs for external traffic will be in place but Mr Valentine said local motorists would find their own alternatives.

“Highways England will only ever divert from one A road onto another A road, but that does not stop local people finding their own local route,” he said.

The first phase of the work, for the cattle market roundabout, will last until the end of March. Work will then begin on the second phase, at the Friendly Farmer roundabout, to the end of May, and the final phase, at the Brownhills roundabout, is due to last until the end of July.

Paul Valentine said the phasing had been planned after consultation with businesses, hauliers and venues most likely to be affected.

As part of the safety work, the A1 slip road leading to the Brownhills roundabout will be made wider. Preparatory work to clear roadside vegetation has already taken place.

“It is a small measure aimed at reducing congestion at that island.”

He said the Friendly Farmer roundabout was acknowledged to be hard to negotiate, and the work would improve this.

“This is the most challenging in terms of accidents because of HGVs versus cars. We will reduce it from four lanes to three to help people get in the right lane,” he said.



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