The latest update on the Grantham Station Approach works.

What we achieved in August

• Started works on Monday 19 August
• Decommissioned permanent traffic signals and installed temporary signals
• Installed traffic management, including closing the slip road from Westgate to Wharf Road
• Removed traffic signal poles from main traffic island
• Excavation of main traffic island
• Removed pedestrian guardrails from island

What’s happening in September

Phase 1 – Westgate/Wharf Road traffic island and surrounds

• Install traffic signal ducting to new traffic signal locations
• Install new kerbing
• Trim sub-base
• Install tactile paving
• Install sign posts and bollards
• Remove, replace and reset ironworks to island
• Clean Westgate/Wharf Road footway
• Lay new binder and surface courses

Current/ongoing traffic restrictions and closures

• Ongoing until late September – lane closures on Westgate, closing off the A52 slip road off Westgate onto Wharf Road, and reducing Wharf Road to one lane for Sankt Augustin Way and Harlaxton Road
  • Diversion route via Sankt Augustin Way and B1174.

Upcoming traffic restrictions and closures

• Late September to mid-October – full closure of Station Road West from the private car park south of the residential dwellings to the junction.
  • Access to premises will be maintained.
  • There will be no access to Grantham Railway Station from Westgate or Wharf Road.
  • Diversion route via Wharf Road / London Road / Station Road East, and vice versa.