An additional day for Pilgrims Way East works

I’ve had an update on the Pilgrims Way East road closure from the Kent Highways officer overseeing the project; he just came back to me after being on site today. 

The Kent Highways officer has raised concerns with the subcontractors about the height of the raised table at Row Dow. He has requested that the site does not open until this has been addressed. The contractors have secured a one day extension to the road closure to complete these works. 

I took a look earlier in the evening, and vehicles are passing through the Row Dow ramp. However, the intention is for the closure to be in place for another day; so tomorrow (Tuesday) should be the final day. I will relay any updates I get from Kent Highways, who will be on site to oversee this.

Going back a bit, the question as to why the Row Dow table works were started before Tudor Drive was complete: the contractors assessed that this was more time efficient, though as said previously, the original schedule was to carry out the two separately and sequentially.

Kent Highways, as the highways authority, are overseeing the works, but as I reported at the start, this is Phase 2 of the Otford Traffic Management Scheme rather than a stand alone KCC project. I hope it’s nonetheless helpful to provide updates.