* Steel structures are in place on the steps area between Abbey Road and the Wharf.
Contractors now have exactly a month left before the scheduled completion date for Llangollen’s Four Great Highways scheme.
And
although work on one aspect of the project now looks to be quite well advanced,
there’s clearly much still to be done on another part of it.
The project is part
of investment by the former UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund that was secured
through a joint application between Denbighshire County Council and Wrexham
County Borough Council for the old Clwyd South Constituency – Llangollen is now
part of the new Clwyd East.
The application was
supported by former MP for the area Simon Baynes and £3.8 million was allocated
to Denbighshire to invest in the communities of Llangollen, Llantysilio, Corwen
and surrounding areas.
Work
on the Lower Dee Mill Park walkway and the steps leading from Abbey Road up to
the Wharf was due to be finished in June.
But
at the end of that month the Four Great Highways team said unexpected ground
conditions in both sites had been encountered, which had resulted in a
re-design of the foundations under the existing steps in the park, and of the
foundations including the introduction of a steel sub-frame and concrete pile
caps - a dense concrete pad that supports heavy structures in areas where the
ground is soft - at the Wharf.
Due
to a delay in the steel being delivered the planned completion date for the
project was put back to the end August.
Steel
for the two sites was delivered a few weeks ago and llanblogger has been taking
a look at the sites.
While Lower Dee Mill Park seems to be progressing well, with an elevated walkway now in place, much work still appears to be necessary at the Wharf steps, although strong steel structures are now in place at the canal end, near the top and slightly lower down the slope.
There’s now exactly a month before the stated completion deadline is reached.
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