Johnson Street, Gateshead

Good morning,

Next week the site team will be carrying out permanent resurfacing works to Abbeyfield - Johnson Street and Yetholme Road areas.  And some additional works to install a new tarmac footpath at the bottom of Johnson St/Yetholme with our contract partner.  The traffic management will still be required once completed, to continue underground works in the shafts.

Alongside this there will be fabrication works to carry out underground.  This work may lead to increased noise level, which our site team will mitigate and monitor as the works progress.

The footpath at Johnson Street junction of Abbeyfield will be fully re-opened by the bank holiday weekend.  The grass verge will need to be topsoiled and seeded, but will need time for nature to takes its course, we would estimate a year for regrowth.

The site team have sent over some photos which are;

• Reinstatement of the compound areas for the football pitches to be dressed in again
• The installation of a stock fence to the boundary area and removed around 300 metres of fencing to reveal the area back to condition of where we started

The team are still to install topsoil and seed to the football areas but wanted to reduce our working area wherever possible.

Our customers will see Esh Stantec start to reduce our site as we get closer to the end of our works.  This week will see the removal of the high rise cabins.  The team will only be using ground level cabins until we leave site.

Have a lovely weekend.

Christine