A30 Brighton Hill Roundabout Improvements

Last update: September 2023

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Businesses are open as usual. 

Works Progress Visuals

Please see the drone footages for the A30 Brighton Hill Roundabout Improvements – A30 Winchester Road drone flight west to east;

July 2023
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September 2022

Traffic Management Update - Planned  Night-time Works  - Brighton Hill Roundabout - September 2023

Night time working will take place to lay the final road surface, apply road markings and install street lighting and vehicle detection loops for the new traffic signals.
To safely undertake these activities, the roundabout will be closed in two phases as detailed below:

Phase Two

Monday 25 September to Friday 29 September - the east side of the roundabout will be closed.
The works will be carried out each night from 8pm with the roundabout reopening to traffic at 6am each morning.

Phase One - the west side of the roundabout has been completed which includes; final road surfacing, markings, street lighting and vehicle detection loops for the new traffic signals.

Planned Night Works - October 2023

Night-time working will take place on the Brighton Hill Roundabout improvement scheme to lay the final road surface, apply road markings and install street lighting and vehicle detection loops for the new traffic signals. 

The works will require full road closures on each of the arms on the roundabout.  Locations and dates are as detailed below:

Monday 2 October – Thursday 5 October
Full road closures of A30 Winchester Road (W) approach and departure from the roundabout and Brighton Way for four nights to undertake resurfacing.

Monday 9 October – Thursday 12 October
Full road closures of The Harrow Way and Old Winchester Road for four nights to undertake resurfacing.

Monday 16 October – Thursday 19 October
Full closure of A30(E) approach and departure from the roundabout for four nights to undertake resurfacing.

All works will take place from 8pm with all roads reopening at 6am each morning to all traffic.

Please view the exact location and diversion routes in this table.

Pedestrian diversions will be in place around the works areas. In parallel with the partial closure of the roundabout, footways on A30 Winchester Rd East will also be closed. Please see the new pedestrian diversion routes plan.

For progress on this scheme, please view the latest Summer 2023 Newsletter.

Piling works completed alongside the Brighton Hill Retail Park to add support to the embankment on the A30 Winchester Road. The nearside lane closure on the A30 Winchester Road approach to the roundabout will still be in place.

A30 Winchester Road East - OpenReach - Completed

Openreach have installed a new service chambers on the nearside of the A30 Winchester Road (east).

For more information, please see the latest traffic management and pedestrian diversion route plans.

Please allow more time for your journey.

Hampshire County Council contractor Milestone Infrastructure Services. A meet the contractor event was held in February 2022, please view the presentation.

The major improvements to Brighton Hill Roundabout commenced on 24 January 2022.  Works are due for completion winter 2023.

The working hours are 7.30am to 6pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 1pm on Saturday.

To facilitate the works, traffic management will be required to provide safe working space for the workforce. During peak hours, 6.30am - 9.30am and 4pm - 6.30pm the same number of lanes will be maintained on the A30 through the Brighton Hill Roundabout and on the other entries (Western Way/The Harrow Way/Brighton Way/Winchester Rd), these will be reduced to single lanes.

Off peak, the contractor may require additional road space and reduce traffic to single lanes on all arms of the roundabout. Pedestrian diversions will be in place for the duration of the works and our safer routes to schools’ team are working with the schools to provide support. Please allow more time for your journey.

The site compound is set up on the site of the former Camrose football ground within the existing car park.  Access to the former football ground will remain open for ongoing maintenance by the landowner. The site is leased to the contractor by Basingstoke Town Limited. Hampshire County Council are not party to the lease.

Scheme overview

Brighton Hill roundabout forms a key junction on Basingstoke’s A30 South West corridor. This corridor provides a critical strategic route between the M3 Junction 7, the Ringway and adjoining links to Basingstoke’s retail and commercial centre. The route is a focus for future growth including 2,000 homes on strategic housing sites adjoining the A30. In addition, the route will also need to accommodate traffic from the nearby Manydown development to west of Basingstoke, where a further 3,500 homes are planned. Currently congestion at the Brighton Hill roundabout regularly results in extensive queues and journey time delays. Without improvements, congestion will worsen as traffic levels increase from the planned development in the area.

The Brighton Hill improvement scheme aims to support growth, reduce journey times and create an enhanced and safer environment for cyclists and pedestrians. The scheme will widen and signalise Brighton Hill roundabout and add additional capacity to its main arms.

Good infrastructure is vital to Hampshire’s continued economic prosperity. These improvements aim to make daily travel easier for residents and commuters and will help to ease congestion, enhance safety and increase local opportunities to walk and cycle. Main works for the scheme are scheduled to begin in Autumn 2021 for an approximate two-year period.

 

This scheme forms one part of a multi-million pound transport investment in the Basingstoke area which also includes improvements to: 

  • A340 Aldermaston Road;
  • A33 Popley Way;
  • A339 Ringway Junction;
  • A33 Crockford Roundabout and Binfields Roundabout;
  • A33 Thornhill Way;
  • A340 Thornycroft roundabout.
 

The £19.3m scheme is being funded by:

  • £11.65m - EM3 Local Enterprise Partnership;
  • £7.65m - Hampshire County Council.

Hampshire County Council has secured £3.28 million from a successful bid to the Government’s Active Travel Fund. The funding will be used to provide a range of measures throughout Hampshire to create better spaces for walking and cycling in local communities.

A new three metre wide cycle track will be built alongside the existing footway in Brighton Way. For more information please visit the scheme web page.

Background

December 2020: Hampshire County Council approved revised scheme plans for the improvements to Brighton Hill Roundabout. Light of a Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Planning Committee decision not to permit a development application necessary to allow the Camrose link road to be constructed.

June 2020: Hampshire County Council public consultation on detail proposals to improve Brighton Hill roundabout. See the exhibition plans.

September 2018: Hampshire County Council public consultation on outline proposals to improve Brighton Hill roundabout. Read the consultation report. Read the consultation material.

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