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The Project Control Framework
This framework sets out how we, together with the Department for Transport, manage and deliver major road improvement projects.
A595 Parton to Lillyhall Improvement
A595 Parton to Lillyhall Improvement
- Status
- Completed
- Located in
- Area 13
- Scheme type
- Programme of Major Schemes
The Project
The A595 between Parton and Lillyhall is an important part of the trunk road network connecting West Cumbria and the towns of Whitehaven and Workington with the M6 motorway at Penrith via the A66.
The previous road carried more than 17,000 vehicles a day, and passed through several local communities. The road was narrow and winding with a high number of junctions and was heavily congested.
The newly constructed route is 3 miles (5.1 km) long, starting at the A596 junction at Lillyhall. This junction was brought up to dual carriageway standard to the junction with the A597. A new bypass was built to the west, bypassing the villages of Distington, Common End and Howgate before rejoining the A595 north of Parton.
Construction
It took nearly two years to complete the bypass section of the scheme, which was opened to traffic on 17 December 2008.
The online widening of the A595 between the A596 and A597 junctions was completed on 12 March 2009, when the Highways Agency's Chief Executive, Graham Dalton, unveiled a plaque to commemorate official completion of the scheme.
Although the construction works on the bypass are now officially complete and the road is officially opened to traffic we still have some work to do completing the planting and landscaping for the scheme and we also have some works on the old trunk road, the renamed B5306. You may encounter some roadworks whilst we are doing these finishing works.
