14 095 Contract for the Design and Construction of A536 Congleton Link Road

The proposed A536 Congleton Link Road is a 5.7 km long, 9.3 m wide single carriageway road running tothe north of Congleton between the A534 Sandbach Road in the west and the A536 Macclesfield Road in thenortheast. The mainline has five 50 m and one 60 m diameter radii roundabouts including junctions with theA54 andA34. The link road passes beneath Chelford Road in an area subject to a high water table. The road will be cut approximately 8 m deep into mudstone in a 25 m high escarpment before crossing the River Daneon an 85 mlong bridge and landing on a 12 m high embankment founded on piled alluvium. There are two other road bridge crossings and two underpasses. The scheme also has approximately 3.5 km of realigned or new local roads and significant amounts of landscaping and environmental mitigation works to accommodate Great Crested Newts, Bats and Ancient Woodland.