updated: 8 March 2012

The North Wakefield Gateway (NWG) highway scheme provides a further section of the city’s strategic highway network, ‘The Emerald Ring’, which will eventually see the completion of a green boulevard around the city centre.

The works will fundamentally alter the highway network in the northern part of the city centre, introducing bus priority measures, upgraded junctions, new pedestrian crossings and will provide high quality public realm works around County Hall.

The County Hall area includes the top end of Wood Street, Coronation Gardens, Castrop Rauxel Square and the cleared area between County Hall and Bell Street. These areas lie within a conservation area and are surrounded by a number of important listed buildings. The materials used will be in keeping with this and consist of mainly traditional sandstone and granite.

See 'Downloads' for the changes to the public realm: 

• a detailed plan of the project
• an artist impression
• a public realm plan

The contract was awarded to North Midland Construction PLC and started on the 19 September 2011 with completion planned for June 2012

Works completed or ongoing at 7 March 2012

• The new signals at Northgate/Rishworth Street and Marsh Way roundabout have been switched on.
• Upgrading the pedestrian crossing on Northgate outside QEGS completed
• Installation of traffic signal ducting at Northgate/Westfield Road has commenced.
• Resurfacing to Marsh Way completed, Northgate and Rishworth Street ongoing.
• Works to public realm area on Bond Terrace/Bond Street/Coronation Gardens has commenced.
• Bond Street pedestrian crossing under construction

Programme for March 2012 and April 2012

• Northgate/Rishworth Street/Cliff Parade and Bond Street/Bell Street - carriageway resurfacing works (see below for further details)
• Bond Street – complete pedestrian crossing and new traffic signal
• Leeds Road - Westfield Road to Blenheim Road widen carriageway for bus lane and upgrade pedestrian crossing
• Westfield Road/Northgate – complete new signalised junction and pedestrian crossing
• Bond Street/Bond Terrace – construction of new paved areas
• Construction of new pedestrian area outside County Hall
• Wood Street /Cliff Parade and Cliff Parade /Burton Street – install new traffic signal junctions

Statutory Undertakers works

• Complete electricity diversion to Bond Street and Leeds Road

Traffic Management

Permanent changes to traffic flows implemented during December 2011 and January 2012

See 'Downloads' for maps showing the Traffic Changes:

• All traffic changes and dates
• details of changes to Westfield Road
• details of changes to St Johns Square
• details of changes to Bond Street
  

Other Traffic Management

• Carriageway and Footway narrowing at work locations
  

Resurfacing Works

Rishworth Street / Cliff Parade

This work is to be carried out over 3 Sundays between the hours of 7am and 10pm in accordance with the following programme. (Programme could be subject to change due to weather conditions)

Sunday 11 March
Rishworth Street through to Bond Street.

Sunday 1 April and 15 April
Bond Street/Wood Street/Cliff Parade Junction

In order to carry out this work a road closure will be in operation on Rishworth Street and Wood Street

Bond Street/Bell Street Junction

This work will commence on Sunday 1st April and continue off peak during the following week.
Temporary traffic signals will be in operation during the above works.

Find out more

For further information telephone: 0845 8 506 506