Thursday, August 1, 2024

llanblogger reviews work on Four Great Highways project

 

* 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.


* A new walkway is in place at Lower Dee Mill Park.

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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