Good Morning

Just a quick message from Michael...........

The tie-in on Cottonwood Lane is about complete and the traffic management will be changing round from Monday 5th

As ever, please be that little more vigilant if you are in the area.......we almost there!

Good Afternoon

Happy New Year to you all.

You will be pleased to hear our work is about done, we should be out of your hair February.

We still have a little more work to complete on Cottonwood Lane and the pedestrian route close to the Linden homes site will be diverted as the traffic will be temporarily moved onto the footpath, so please be that little more vigilant. Thankfully this work should only last a week and this will complete all the pipework required.

Thank you once again for your patience during the work, please be assured "the end is in sight".

Good Morning All,

Just thought I'd inform you Michael and his team will be closing the site for the festive period from Friday 22nd December until 8th January when normal service will resume.

The traffic lights on Cottonwood Lane will remain during the festivities however, they will be monitored, and we will have security on site. All being well our work is anticipated to be finished by February 2018, so not too far away.

It remains for me to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful 2018.

Good Afternoon

We just wanted to update you on the North Morpeth Strategic Sewer project.　

Work started on Monday 23 October for a period of up to 8 weeks to complete the construction and commissioning of the sewage pumping station near the Northern Bypass / Fairmoor round-about and install additional drainage on St George’s hospital access road between the ongoing Linden Homes development and the hospital.

We have re-established a temporary compound at the back of the former St George’s hospital site next to the bowling club and carried out enabling work on the verge of the access road in preparation for the resumption of drainage work that commenced this week.

While vehicular and pedestrian access to the hospital will be maintained at all times, it will be necessary to install temporary traffic lights on the hospital access road for a short period to allow drainage work to progress.

As before we will send you regular updates on the progress of the work and if you do have any queries please let me know.

Good morning, it’s been a little while since the last update and I thought I better bring you up to date with progress on site.

The vast majority of the pipework within the St George’s site is now complete and we are finishing off the final connections including pressure testing the last section of the rising main. We have made a start reinstating the link road between St George’s Hospital’s car parks and sections along Cottingwood Lane and expect to be complete and demobilised by Friday 9 June.

Meanwhile, Linden Homes’ contractor, Esh Construction are continuing with drainage work on St George’s bank with foul drainage complete up to the site entrance. Work will be continuing for the foreseeable future as they progress past the site entrance towards St George’s Hospital with the foul drainage. Once complete, they will be continuing with further road and drainage improvements and expect to be complete later this summer.

Kind regards

Good morning,

I hope you have all had a relaxing Easter and enjoyed the Morpeth Gathering events taking place over last weekend, at least the weather was kind!

While we completed our section of drainage work on Dark Lane earlier this month including final re-surfacing work, Linden Homes’ drainage work on St George’s Hospital Access road is still ongoing and progressing well. From this afternoon, their contractor, Esh Construction will be commencing from where we left off heading up the bank and past the entrance to the health centre. This will mean re-establishing 3-way lights on Dark Lane for a short duration while they pull away from the junction The lights will be manually controlled between 7am and 7pm and they expect to sufficiently progress away from the junction to allow the lights to be removed on Dark Lane by the end of the working day this Friday 28 April. Access to the health centre will maintained throughout as they progress past the junction of the car park and expect to complete the lower section of drainage work by Friday 5 May.

Meanwhile, MMB are currently progressing with drainage work elsewhere within the St George’s Hospital grounds and have also commenced with a short section of drainage work off Gas House Lane and Wellwood Gardens. This short length of drainage will improve the operation of the existing sewers in the Low Stanners area and we expect to be complete by Friday 28 April.

I’m conscious that re-establishing traffic lights on Dark Lane is again going to impact on traffic movements in and out of the Town for a short period, and would like to thank you again for your continued patience while we complete this essential work.

"Good Morning”

Following on from from Paul's blog last week, I just wanted you all to know the.... “end is in sight!!!”

I am sure you will have already recognised a noticeable change in the town……yes its’ pretty clear working last weekend proved to be worthwhile as we are now in the process of reinstating our working areas.

Paul’s last blog stated we would make every effort to remove all the traffic management by Friday 7th April and I’m pleased to say we have exceeded that as John and his team have pushed on and now the work is complete.

With that in mind from around 2pm today the pedestrian crossing by Morrisons will be re-opened; simultaneously we will be removing all the traffic management, machinery/signage and fencing etc, so by rush hour this evening everything should be fully operational and back to normal.

As you know our work was necessary to increase the network capacity in line with the residential development in and around Morpeth.

We recognise our presence has been disruptive but we truly hope it hasn’t been too much of an inconvenience during these essential works.

It just remains for me to say…to the residents, motorists and visitors of this lovely historic town, a massive THANK YOU for your patience, understanding and co-operation during these works and we will now leave you to enjoy your beautiful town.

Should you have further questions about our work please do not hesitate to contact us we would love to hear from you.

Thank you Morpeth!

Good afternoon,

Firstly, I want to apologise for the issues road users and pedestrians faced on Thursday due to the changes in the traffic management and the necessity to increase the working space required for the white lining and skid surfacing.

As mentioned in earlier updates, we opened up trial holes on St George’s access to assess the best solution for this final section of drainage work.　 Due to the location of existing services we need to excavate this section by hand. 　Work started again this morning and while this is likely to take a little more time than expected, we are hopefully that we can complete the work and remove all traffic management by Friday 7 April at the latest. Please note we will be working this Saturday and Sunday to help meet this deadline.

Again, many thanks for your patience and sorry again for any issues caused on Thursday.

Good afternoon,

I just want to let you know of a change to the ongoing resurfacing and white lining on Dark Lane. The good news is that the resurfacing was completed this afternoon and we have temporarily removed the traffic management. Instead of completing the white lining over the next two days, we will be starting early tomorrow morning (Thursday 30 March) and complete all of the white lining and skid surfacing in one day. Lights will be back on at Morrisons roundabout (no access onto Dark Lane from Dacre Street) starting at 7am tomorrow so we can complete the first section up to Howard Terrace. Once complete, we will move the 3 way lights back across St George’s junction temporarily closing access from Howard Terrace and Thorp Avenue. We expect to complete all white lining work by 5pm and will re-open Howard Terrace and Thorp Avenue, reducing the 3 way lights across St George’s junction ready to recommence the final section of drainage work within the hospital access road starting on Friday.

The last section of drainage will be excavated by hand due to existing services and therefore, this is likely to take a little more time. We are however hopefully that we can be complete and all traffic management removed by Friday 7 April at the latest.

Again, many thanks for your patience.

Good afternoon,

We are now off Dark Lane with our drainage work and only have a short section of pipework to install part way up St George’s Access Road (finishing before the Health Centre pedestrian gates). This last stretch is proving to be difficult as we try to negotiate water, gas and electric services. We have temporarily reinstated a section from the junction and are currently digging trial pits to confirm the location of the various services.

On Tuesday 28 March, there will be a change to the traffic management as Northumberland County Council’s contractor, Tarmac, will start the permanent resurfacing along Dark Lane. This will be carried out over a four day period using three way lights. The table below provides a further details on the planned resurfacing work:

With the information from the trial holes on St George’s access, we hope to have an acceptable solution in place to recommence this work starting again on Friday 31 March with a view to completing this work over the weekend of 1 and 2 April.

I appreciate that the changes to the traffic management are going to increase traffic disruption for a short duration but please bear with us, the end is in sight!　

Again, the project team would like to thank you for your continued patience and understanding while we complete this work.