en.Wedoany.com Reported - A relief road project in Cullompton, Devon, UK, has completed contractor selection, with Wills Bros Civil Engineering chosen following a quality and price assessment. Five tenders were received, of which four progressed to the final evaluation stage. The contract is expected to run from 1 June 2026 to 1 January 2028.
The scheme will deliver a 1.3km relief road, connecting Station Road to Exeter Road via Meadow Lane, forming a bypass around Cullompton town centre. The road will have a nominal carriageway width of 6.5 metres, with a 2-metre-wide footway on the western side. The project includes partial alterations to Meadow Lane and Duke Street, construction of a new four-arm roundabout linking the relief road with Station Road and Millennium Way, and five new junctions serving existing roads and adjacent land parcels.
The works include a significant structural element, namely the construction of a new single-span highway bridge over Spratford Mill Stream. The structure will feature a 15-metre clear span, 20-degree skew alignment, PU32 steel sheet pile abutments, and MY7 precast prestressed concrete bridge deck planks with concrete infill. The scheme also includes the construction of several flood relief culverts, including a 6-metre-wide twin-cell box culvert within the existing watercourse, along with several additional culverts ranging in width from 1.5 metres to 4 metres.
Drainage works will include new surface water drainage systems, two attenuation ponds with capacities of approximately 750 cubic metres and 450 cubic metres respectively, a hydraulic brake chamber, swales, and treatment systems. Earthworks will involve approximately 16,000 cubic metres of fill material to form the road embankments. The relief road will cross existing sports facilities, requiring the demolition of buildings at the cricket club, bowling club, and football club grounds.
Other works include approximately 1,450 metres of timber post and rail fencing, 150 metres of boundary fencing adjacent to the West Coast Main Line, 100 metres of acoustic fencing, and the installation of 39 10-metre-high lighting columns. The scheme will also create approximately 500 metres of new shared-use path and implement a one-way traffic system between Duke Street and the junctions with Rivermead and Chestnut Avenue. The relief road will form part of the B3181, with new signage, road markings, and double yellow lines installed throughout.
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