A £1million project to revamp a key road in Lichfield is set to be rubber-stamped by council chiefs.
The “major road reconstruction” work on the Birmingham Road is part of an additional £30million investment in highways being proposed by Staffordshire County Council.
It will see improvement works carried out on the A5127 between the St John St junction and the Rotten Row junction.
The work is not believed to be connected to Lichfield District Council’s proposals to redevelop the former Friarsgate site on the Birmingham Road.
Other projects include work to repair the anti-skid surface at the pedestrian crossing on Trent Valley Lane near the Samuel Johnson Community Hospital.
Cllr David Williams, cabinet member for highways and transport, said:
“While we do have to work with the budget we have available and still fund areas such as care of the most vulnerable, this extra £30million investment of the next two years underlines our commitment to maintaining and improving our massive road network.”
Cllr David Williams, Staffordshire County Council
Under the plans, repair and resurfacing work will also take place at a number of sites across Lichfield and Burntwood. The full list of roadworks projects are available on the county council’s website.
The funding proposal will be discussed at a meeting of the cabinet on 15th March.
Welcome news, but it’s the stretch past Samuel Johnson hospital and down to Trent Valley island that desperately needs repair. It’s like a bomb site.
Urr how can you upgrade the road when you do not know what the future of Friarsgate and the bus station is. Surely this approach could waste money and deliver an upgrade that is not fit for purpose and will require digging up later at great cost to the taxpayer.
Bless them, they really are trying to look like they are doing something in the run up to the elections but cannot think one move ahead. Diversionary tactic to deflect away from the Streethay gas main debacle I would say.
Surely the money would be better spent repairing the hundreds of potholes across Lichfield ? I use the road all the time and find it good and pothole free ? Who makes these calls and no doubt once it’s been done they will dig it up for the failed Friary’s Gate site?
@ ???George???
Good that roads being done but bus there a chance some footpath could be looked at . We oldies have a problem when out on mobility scooters.
Whilst any road improvement is welcomed the small matter of Eastern avenue / Grange Lane is still waiting for a solutionwe hear of progress but thats about all “we hear”
Good point Teresa Harper. Pavements get next to no attention, and in fact can often be made worse than the roads by services excavations. Riding a mobility scooter or wheelchair on them is bad enough to loosen your fillings.
Given the newly discovered green credentials of LDC I expect that facilities for safe cycling will be considered at all time…
Seems pointless until the heavy lorry traffic is pushed out along the ring road which is now complete
I can only see 3 items listed for Lichfield. On the website link that’s shown.
@Gerp…l hope so, because Lichfield is a compact place and cycling would be an ideal form of transport for many people if they felt safe to do so.
@Wendy – the file on the link has several pages of minor works listed alongside the major projects. A number of these are in Lichfield and Burntwood.
I am a resident in Chasetown paying my Council Tax to LDC as ever the majority of the money being spent whether it be Council Tax or other funding is to be spent on Lichfield,why is it that Lichfield continues to be privileged at the expense of Burntwood and the surrounding area.
I suggest that LDC concedes it is a fragmented and at times negligent council.
Thus bringing forward local devolution so the residents of Burntwood,Chase Terrace, Chase Town,Boney Hay and Hamerwich can see the improvements that as residents we all deserve.
Simon Johnson might have a valid point if any of the roadworks mentioned here were anything to do with LDC, but they aren’t so I’m not sure what his desire for the People’s Republic of Burntwood is all about.
Why do so many people have a problem reading the thing they are commenting on? SCC are behind the highways project (as they are for all road issues). It isn’t difficult. Just read what’s written before posting inaccurate comments that immediately undermine your argument.
By the time you get to the new smooth stretch , the car is already been destroyed by the trenches on all approaches
How can they justify spending a million pounds on a road that’s perfect compared to other roads in the area.
If the failed Friarsgate doe’s get going again and bus station and multi storey carpark are demolished, it will all be ripped up again, what a waste of money.
If they spent the money on filter traffic lights on St.John street, that would be worth it.
. What work is actually being done? wlll there be a nice access route put in from the McCarthy and Stone to the city
Funny how they have found money now, when there was no money to do a proper job on the Lichfield to Burntwood road, which is breaking up all ready.
They have managed to repair round one manhole, when your tyres have been damaged
What on earth improvements are needed to this stretch of Birmingham Road? Exactly how will we measure the impact of this expenditure or whether anything worthwhile has been achieved? A bizarre decision that will result in significant disruption while these ‘improvements’ are worked on, but it’s what we have come to expect from our numpty councillors. It’s only our money!
Basically it’s just a way to cause total grid lock to Lichfield roads again.
Be better handing out money to all residents in Lichfield to replace their damaged tyres from the pot holes 😁
They should consider investing in another exit to & from from Streethay, goodness only knows what might happen if the only current exit were blocked for some reason, emergencies for example.
Lichfield is getting like Hotel California, you can check out but you can never leave.
Which idiot has decided this stretch of road need resurfacing???? There are lots of other roads in a worst state. As John Allen said outside of Samuel Johnson being a good example. Never mind I’m sure it will cause lots of traffic queues for people trying to get about Lichfield……..I think we are all getting used to it now
How can a scheme be decided by the county council, that doesn’t affect them.
Have the town council asked for it?
Will there be speed cameras, speed humps, chicanes, dot islands or more traffic lights.
When people want a scheme doing, they come up with a load of reasons why they can’t have it.
But a scheme nobody wants would be forced on them.
Whilst I’m looking forward to the prospect of cinemas and the leisure centre, at some point. I’ve heard about consultations for friars gate needless to say only consultations again. I’m feeling less disgruntled by mention of another wasteful scheme, you may assume to think lichfieldians are so full of an ungrateful attitude. However I’ve lived here a decade. I’ve seen decline. Empty shops. Billboarding of friars gate. Huge brick builds on corner of this stretch of road, large housing developments on outskirts, No thought of impact on inner city landscape. Can you understand why LD residents have really had enough. Still You can feel just how caring residents are no one wants to see monies go to waste towards activity which is not considered a real gain. And the point of doing the road, when looking at billboarding, a concrete car park, brick structures? Yet again a 1million spend amidst other priorities, road stretch better done along friar’s gate project limiting disruption to area.
And there you go Lichfield again getting money spent on it. We were told by Highways/Staffs county council there’s no money for traffic calming in Armitage!!! We desperately need it too the traffic passing through our village has rocketed in the past 3 years… all the surrounding villages of Lichfield are a bit cheesed off with our money getting spent elsewhere.
Has anyone from whichever council is responsible driven along the pothole, formerly known as Ryknield Street between the A51 traffic lights and the Boley Park Co-op, recently? Part of the £1 million/£30 million needs to be “rubber stamped” for that equally “key” highway.
John Robinson, this stretch of road was repaired with the same technique
as the Lichfield/Burntwood road, but they did put a finishing top on, unlike the Burntwood road.
That is why they are breaking up, instead of doing a proper job, planing off and new tarmac.
Took longer than a proper job.
But it as done one thing, controlled the speed, unsafe to even drive to the speed limit.
I wonder if that is the idea on the Birmingham Road?
@ John Robinson… Yes that stretch of road through Boley was resurfaced to very poor standards. For a long while afterwards the manhole covers and drains were dangerously exposed. I wondered who was responsible for signing it off. Predictably it has quickly deteriorated to be very unsatisfactory. Serious mony spent on poor quality. The old maxim of ‘Do it once. Do it right’, obviously did not apply to that contract.
Also the roads round Wall Island, patchwork quilt
The frost and snow is finding the poor state of our roads and bodged repairs.