Potential improvements for College Roundabout as Salisbury junction scheme reviewed
It comes after a public consultation
Last updated 3rd Dec 2021
Wiltshire Council say they are looking at potential improvements that could be made to the College Roundabout on the A36 Southampton Road in Salisbury.
It says they will be liaising with National Highways over the plans, which may have an impact on the scheme to upgrade and improve three key junctions in the city.
Proposals to change the layout of the Harnham Gyratory, Park Wall Junction and Exeter Street Roundabout went for a public consultation earlier this year, with a plan to submit an outline business case for the project for consideration by the Department for Transport in December.
The original plans would cost £15 million to carry out the works.
The local authority have now announced that those plans are going to be reviewed, following feedback from residents and businesses.
Traffic modelling the junction layouts are going to be looked at again.
In Spring, more peak time traffic data will be collected to help the review.
Cllr Dr Mark McClelland, Cabinet Member for Transport, said:
“We’ve listened to the valuable feedback we have received on this project from residents and businesses in the south of the county, and as such we’re going to look again at the traffic modelling and layouts for all three junctions.
“We particularly want to look at the traffic flows and their effect on the junctions during peak hours, so we’ll be collecting more traffic data in the spring, as we expect that traffic counts will have returned to nearer pre-pandemic levels by then.
“I’m also delighted to announce that we will be liaising with National Highways over potential improvements at the adjacent College Roundabout on the A36, which may have implications for our scheme.
“This project will improve capacity at these three junctions for motorists, while also making them safer for cyclists and walkers. Once we have completed the further work and prepared the outline business case, we’ll submit it to DfT for feedback. We’ll then make changes based on DfT’s feedback before holding further public consultation on the scheme.”
They had more than 1,200 responses, when the consultation had finished.