Highways Agency

The Project

The A1 Trunk Road is a north-south regional route of strategic importance but studies carried out during the draft A1 Peterborough to Blyth Route Management Strategy (A1 RMS) highlighted that a number of junctions along the route were sub-standard.

Following those studies, schemes were developed to improve or replace the sub-standard northbound on-and off-slip roads at the B6387 Twyford Bridge junction east of Elkesley in association with proposed junction improvements at Elkesley itself.

Public Consultation and Preferred Route Announcement

We developed two options for the Elkesley junction improvements, both of which anticipated the provision of a new combined on/off-slip road on land east of the B6387 at Twyford Bridge. These proposals formed the basis of a public consultation exercise undertaken in 2005.  The consultation revealed broad support for the improvement of the Twyford Bridge junction but there were some concerns about the impact of the proposed new combined slip road on the local environment.

We have therefore decided to take the Elkesley and Twyford Bridge Junction schemes forward separately.  At a public exhibition of the latest Elkesley proposals in February 2008, there was still clear support for the idea of improving the northbound slip roads at Twyford Bridge Junction.

Traffic flows at Twyford Bridge may be significantly affected by a proposed major redevelopment of the former Bevercotes Colliery site off the B6387 at Haughton.  We are therefore discussing with the prospective developers of that site the implications of their proposals for the A1 trunk road before publishing further schemes to improve the junction. 

We hope to be able later in 2008 to bring forward a scheme for the improvement of Twyford Bridge Junction, but its subsequent progression will remain subject to statutory processes, availability of funding and the Bevercotes proposals.  The Elkesley Junctions scheme will be progressed independently.