Improving access to Aldershot Station

To improve accessibility to and from Aldershot Railway Station

Last update: January 2025

Latest Update

The highway improvement scheme around Aldershot railway station is now substantially complete. Final landscaping and tree planting will be carried out in Spring 2025, when weather conditions are more suitable.

Remedial work will commence across the area on 6 January, during daytime hours.  Night-time road closures have now been rescheduled due to recent weather conditions:

Thursday 23 January for two nights between 8pm and 6am.
Road closure on: Windsor Way and Arthur Street.

Progress visuals

November 2024

October 2024

Hampshire County Council has appointed Octavius Infrastructure Ltd to carry out improvement works in the area around Aldershot railway station. This scheme aims to improve accessibility between the station, the town centre, and the Wellesley development, as well as making the area around the railway station more attractive. Specifically, the planned works will take place on the following roads in the town centre: Station Road, Windsor Way, Arthur Street, Victoria Road junction with Pickford Street and Arthur Street, Pickford Street, A323 High Street near Naafi Roundabout, and the railway station forecourt itself.

The main construction works started on Monday 29 July 2024 and will be completed during the winter of 2024. Landscaping work and tree planting will be completed in the new year.

Improvements to Aldershot Railway Station Forecourt and the surrounding roads

The scheme will deliver:

  1. The creation of a high-quality north-south cycle route between Aldershot Railway Station and the Wellesley Development. This will provide the second of two key cycle links between Wellesley and the town centre, with this being the eastern link which connects to the railway station. The scheme will also deliver improved facilities for pedestrians in the area.
  2. Improvements to the public space in and around the railway station forecourt to enhance the quality of the public realm. This includes improvements to pedestrian areas and landscaping around the station forecourt. More space will be provided for the movement of pedestrians and cycle users in this area, with associated changes to the location of taxi ranks and parking spaces to make best use of the space available.
  3. The updated scheme will also include a significant area of carriageway resurfacing on Windsor Way. There is an opportunity to coordinate the planned works with highway maintenance activities, to provide a high-quality outcome and to minimise the impact of future highway works on the local community and town centre highway network.

The planned changes to traffic movements and parking arrangements in the area include:

  • The permanent closure of the A323 junction with Pickford Street to motor vehicles;
  • The removal of on-street parking on the west side of Arthur Street between its junctions with Windsor Way and Victoria Road, and on-street parking on the east side of Arthur Street between Windsor Way and Station Road, with new parking spaces created nearby on Victoria Road and Windsor Way, to ensure no significant net loss of parking spaces of all types in the area;
  • Raised pedestrian crossing points on Victoria Road across its junctions with Pickford Street and Arthur Street.

Further details on the traffic order proposals and the planned changes in Aldershot are available on the below links:

  • Prohibition of driving in Pickford Street and Artillery Road - Public Notice and plan;
  • Aldershot Station Area, amendments to parking and waiting and introduction of a cycle lane - Public Notice and plan;
  • Raised Tables in Victoria Road - Public Notice and plan.
Plan
Aldershot Station Accessibility General Arrangement Technical Plans.
Scheme Background

Please read the scheme background.

Funding

Funding for the transport capital delivery schemes is separate from the County Council’s revenue budget and savings proposals. In the majority of cases funding comes from external grants and / or Section 106 contribution from developers. This funding usually has conditions that strictly control on how, where and when it can be spent.

Roadworks and Travel Advice

Visit the Stagecoach website for service updates and contact details.

Planned works are published on One.Network, an independent platform that allows real-time monitoring of all the UK’s roadworks and diversions.

For travel information and travel advice choices in Hampshire visit My Journey.

Contact us
Address
Universal Services
Hampshire County Council
The Castle
Winchester
SO23 8UD