Grantham Southern Relief Road
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| Grantham Southern Relief Road | |||
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| View East to King 31 roundabout, June 2016 | |||
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| Scheme Type | |||
| bypass | |||
| On road(s) | |||
| A52 | |||
The Grantham Southern Relief Road is a new 3.5km long distributor road to the south of Grantham. It consists of a new junction on the A1 (Spittlegate Junction), and a new road east of here to meet the A52 to the east of the town.
The relief road is being built in three phases:
- Phase One: the creation of a roundabout off the B1174 and a road along Tollmache Road leading to a second new roundabout. Works were carried out by Fitzgerald Civil Engineering and were completed in August 2016.
- Phase Two created the link to join the B1174 to the A1 and a new grade-separated junction. Galliford Try is the contractor. Works started in 2019 and the junction was largely completed in December 2021 before opening to traffic on the 20th December 2022.
- Phase Three will link the A52 at Somerby Hill to the new roundabout off the B1174, crossing the Witham Valley, the East Coast railway line and the River Witham by means of a viaduct/bridge to be constructed. Archaeological site works are now complete. Construction works started in April 2021, however in June 2022 it was discovered that ground conditions supporting the viaduct were unsatisfactory this is requiring that the viaduct's design to be revised and likely delay the project significantly and cost more. A section of phase 3 between the Somerby Hill Roundabout and Whalebone Lane was opened in May 2023.
Links
Lincolnshire County Council
- Artefacts over 2,000 years old uncovered during Grantham Southern Relief Road works 23.03.2018 (archive.org)
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