The signs are up for works and road closures on Goldsel Road in Crockenhill in May. Because this involves works by both Kent County Council and Highways England, there are a number of different elements to the programme.
From Wednesday 12 May, KCC will carry out night time works to resurface Goldsel Road from Station Road in Swanley to the A20 bridge. This will require night time closures of the road, with works taking place from 8pm to 6am for seven nights, excluding the Saturday and Sunday nights (15 - 16 May). These works should be complete by 6am on Friday 21 May.
On the same day (21 May), at 9PM Highways England will begin work on the bridge structures, removing expansion and mechanical bridge joints and replacing the water proofing on the bridge. All this is necessary to support the milling and resurfacing work(followed by replacement road markings) that KCC’s contractors will be carrying out on the bridge, also over the weekend.
As a result, there will be a full road closure on Goldsel Road over that entire weekend (from the evening of 21 May to 6am on Monday 24 May).
For the rest of that week, Highways England will be working to replace the bridge joints; this will again be overnight working from 8pm to 6am, to be completed by 6am on Saturday 29 May. I have seen notifications of a possible second complete weekend road closure (29-31 May) but I understand that this is purely a contingency arrangement and the HE works should be done by first thing on the Saturday morning.
At the end of all this, we should see a much better and restored surface on the Goldsel Road bridge - something that has been wanted by residents, and has been in preparation by KCC and HE for some time.
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