Top award for Progress Road!
Published Tuesday 19th July 11 in Council - news and information releases news
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council’s new Progress Road junction has just clinched a major award from Local Government News. (LGN)
LGN Editor Laura Sharman presented the award to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council Leader, Councillor Nigel Holdcroft, at a ceremony which included the Council's Deputy Leader, Councillor John Lamb, Chief Executive, Rob Tinlin, Corporate Director for Enterprise, Tourism and the Environment, Andrew Lewis and representatives from contractors Birse.
The successful scheme won the 'Highway' category of the LGN's Street Design 2011 Awards.
Progress Road junction is part of the Better Southend initiative, launched to help to make the borough a better place for residents, visitors and businesses to live, rest and work.
LGN judges recognised how significantly the new Progress Road scheme was reducing traffic queues and delays at the junction, adding: "The work has provided local and national benefits and was completed on a tight budget.
"The infrastructure improvements achieved during the scheme will also enable further regeneration work to be carried out in the area."
This new Progress Road junction provides additional lanes on both carriageways of the A127, allowing traffic to flow through the area more easily.
The £5m scheme, was delivered on time and on budget, and was funded by grants from the Homes & Communities Agency and from the Council's Capital Budget.