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 The most recent Parish Council Meeting Report  and updates following members of the public questioning the need for a complete road closure. FOLLOWING  CONSULTATION, THE CHAIRMAN HAS AGREED TO CANCEL THE PARISH COUNCIL MEETING ON 9 JANUARY  2020 DUE TO LACK OF URGENT BUSINESS . For previous meetings click here .  

GOOD NEWS! Following the community questioning of the B3230 Road Closure at the last PC meeting  the following statement  has been made

by  Cllr Andrea Davis on 17.12.19 

Officers at DCC have reconsidered design options and are now planning to undertake a soil nailing scheme, which we believe will be achievable under temporary traffic lights for the entire period of the works. We will also need a temporary 30mph speed restriction to increase our working space on site.

      The anticipated duration of the soil nailing is around 10 weeks but likely to be an additional 4-6 weeks on top for various drainage/ kerbing works, so around 16 weeks total duration.

       Currently our timescales are to send the scheme out to tender early January 2020 with an aim to award to a contractor towards the end of January 2020.

We should then be able to start on site mid-February, which will allow us around 2 weeks to mobilise.

B3230 Road closure update

At Thursday 5th December Parish Councils meeting the chairman updated the councillors and members of the public who were in attendance on the actions that have been taken in relation to the closure of the B3230 at Plaistow Mills for retaining wall works. The chairman said he had first been made aware of the closure by a local resident who had picked the information up from the DCC’s planned road closure website and given the effect that the last closure had on the community he emailed the local County Councillor Andrea Davis with a number of queries in relation to the proposed closure. This email was forwarded to Adam Baldwin the engineer at the engineering design group responsible for this project;

·        These queries included details of the proposed diversionary route.

·        Proposed work to provide passing places on the Shirwell to Lynton Cross route used by so many last time.

·        Will some of the other routes eg Shirwell, Prixford and Guineaford be gritted during the B3230 closure?

·        Why is the Prixford/ Guineaford road to be closed for a period during the B3230 closure?

·        Could DCC look at ways of reducing the closure period by using traffic lights at certain stages during construction?

·        What are the proposals for emergency vehicles during the closure?

The response received from Adam Baldwin was:

·        The official diversionary route will be the same as last time up to Lynton cross, Mullacott cross, into Braunton and then Barnstaple and vice versa.

·        There are no plans to improve passing places on other local routes as the only official diversionary route is the above.

·        There are no current plans to provide gritting to these alternative local routes.

·        The closure date for the Prixford/Guineaford road has been deferred until April after the B3230 road works are complete.

·        Emergency vehicle access will not be possible and they will be advised to use the official diversionary route.

·        They will look to see whether they can use traffic lights at some stage of construction if practical, but they are still looking at design options and it is inevitable that heavy plant will be required during most of the construction period which will take up both carriageways.

·        The current proposal is for 70m plus to be repaired under this contract.

Post meeting note

·        The B3230 closure will be delayed until 20th January with the 3rd April still as the completion date. Marwood PC received official notification on the 6th Dec.

·        Restated that there will be no access for Emergency Vehicles.

·        DCC confirmed they would be happy to meet the PC and residents to explain what the work will entail and to provide regular updates.

·        Chairman suggests that this could take place after Christmas when details are finalised.

·        There could be more exploratory works on site leading up to Christmas.

·         DCC promised to discuss resources with their contractor to try and minimise the period the road is closed. 

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