£700k new roundabout planned near A18 Mortal Ash Hill in Scunthorpe and Tata Steel entrance
A NEW £700,000 roundabout is set to be built on a major road into Scunthorpe in a bid to open up new business opportunities and reduce traffic congestion.
It will be built on the A18 Mortal Ash Hill, close to the existing Lakeside roundabout.
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A new roundabout is planned for the A18 near the Tata steelworks and Mortal Ash Hill
The move was announced by North Lincolnshire Council as the authority revealed its budget for the forthcoming financial year.
The roundabout is to be installed this summer and officials say it will relieve current traffic congestion problems on Brigg Road.
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It will connect an existing entrance to the Tata Steel works with council-owned land on the opposite side of the road. The council has plans for this land to eventually become a science and technology business park.
The roundabout move was announced by councillor Nigel Sherwood (Brigg and Wolds), cabinet member for highways and neighbourhoods, at the authority’s budget-setting meeting.
He said: “It will enable us to work with our partners to open up other business areas.
“This is also a good area for Tata in respect of getting traffic moving and enabling them to get heavy things in without having to go around the Lakeside roundabout.”
Neil Norvock, the council’s traffic team manager, said: “It will have a major impact on HGV traffic on Brigg Road and there will be a significant amount of traffic that uses Brigg Road entering the steel works at this new location.
“The Lakeside roundabout is quite busy and over capacity at peak times. It will have a significant impact on the traffic using that roundabout.”
The budget also includes a £3.5 million commitment over three years to provide access from the M181 for the proposed Lincolnshire Lakes development.
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by WILFANDALF
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 7:36PM
“tata should pay for this roundabout not local taxpayers!they could offset the cost against their taxis!.”
by IT_MAN
Monday, February 25 2013, 8:06PM
“I find it a pain when going to Rusty's on leaving have to go to Forrest Pines roundabout to get back to Morrisons or Scinthorpe, I normally take slip road into Tata then come out at lights on Brigg Road, never been stopped yet so keep using it and hope I get away with it as long as driving slowly. I find the roundabout A18/Brigg Road a pain as traffic do not give way to those on roundabout if they are turning left off Brigg Road.”
by WILFANDALF
Monday, February 25 2013, 6:28PM
“ITS NO WHERE NEAR MOTTELASH HILL.”
by johnc
Monday, February 25 2013, 1:28PM
“there used to one secrtary and a clerk for the whole of Lincolnshire
The job of Chief Executive totally absurd. See Eric Pikles communities site, There is no need to have a C/E, he will be missed like a bad tooth
John Carney”
by johnc
Monday, February 25 2013, 1:11PM
“what a joker
the cost of such a round about should be meet by TATA - the have already submited planning applications-
This is not a new plan that will benifit the public
No company that has concern for its workforce is going to such a proposed park, next to these toxic heavy metal PM10's cancer causing ejoculations from the steel works
Anyone can go on greenpease site and see that this proposal for a technolege Park is one of the mostair born polluted places in europe
Use your i-pad cllr Sherwood and see where Apple google Microsoft etc etc have the premises
instead of producing it to read out the totally untrueb claim that the M180 is being detrunked for the Lincolnshire Lakes. it was alredy proposed before this budget
You were given the powers by Eric Pickles to sack Simon Driver and save £500,000 it cost for him to work 35 hours
John Carney”
by Blue_Noze66
Monday, February 25 2013, 1:07PM
“Oh dear is all I can say. Money well spent? We shall see. Fingers crossed it is. What is a Science & Technology Park by the way?”
by billy_brigg
Monday, February 25 2013, 12:46PM
“@ScunnyMike What are these peak times you talk about? The only time I have been delayed at the roundabout is a couple of weeks before Christmas when the retail park is busy. People using the zebra crossing stop the traffic which then builds up onto the roundabout. Stopping the few vehicles (there are not many despite what you say) from using the roundabout by building a new roundabout won't solve this problem.
As for your comment about the slip road I have read it three times now and still don't get it. My idea would be to add a slip road like the one further up the road that vehicles take to get to Greetwell. Vehicles coming from the other direction could use the existing slip road across the central reservation. Either way though they should fill the empty premises around Scunthorpe before adding more new buildings to be vandalised.”
by ScunnyMike
Monday, February 25 2013, 12:16PM
“@billy_brigg
You appear to have missed the point reported that the Lakeside roundabout is over capacity at peak periods.
It's not a case of saving lorries going into the steelworks "a few hundred yards", it's a question of getting them (and there are a lot if you watch the traffic there) out of the roundabout altogether.
Your comment about building a slip road for the proposed business park is equally foolish. You would put all eastbound traffic from there onto Lakeside roundabout thereby compounding the problem.”
by buffering
Monday, February 25 2013, 12:06PM
“That'll be another out-of-town retail park then!!!”
by billy_brigg
Monday, February 25 2013, 10:49AM
“So £700k is going to be spent on this project which in my opinion is a complete waste of money. Wouldn't it be cheaper to continue to send the HGVs around the roundabout rather than spending all this money on saving them a few hundred yards. Then a slip road could be built into the proposed business park. Even better would be to save the money on this business park and encourage businesses to fill the multitude of empty premises such as those on Skippingdale Estate and Flixborough and not forgetting that building that has stood empty since its construction a few years ago near Wynsors shoes. Time of austerity? Not so sure with this council sometimes.”