NATIONAL Highways has confirmed the location of the contractor's compound for the upcoming M3 Junction 9 scheme.
As previously reported, it was believed that the Balfour Beatty compound, on Badger Farm Road, would be used for the scheme.
However, Balfour Beatty confirmed that the site is instead being decommissioned and turned back into farmland.
A National Highways spokesperson said that the contractor compound for the Junction 9 scheme would instead be located on land east of the existing Junction 9 gyratory.
“Badger Farm was not selected as it is too far from the Junction 9 construction works.
“Setting up the compound at Badger Farm would have been inefficient due to having to transport plant and materials up the motorway every day.”
The M3 Junction 9 improvement scheme will see National Highways modify the junction between the M3 and A34 so it has free-flowing links in both directions.
The junction will be widened and two new bridges built on the gyratory, allowing the M3 to increase from 3 lanes to 4 as it passes through the junction. National Highways will also extend the southbound slip onto the M3 so traffic has more time to join the motorway and improve the safety of the junction with signs and gantries.
The lead contractor for the scheme is Volker Fitzpatrick.
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