Description
The proposal is to widen the footway across Belvidere Bridge permanently, following Covid measures, to improve pedestrian movements in the vicinity.
Location
Belvidere Bridge is located on Belvidere Road, Shrewsbury. Grid ref: 351157, 312617.
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On target?
On hold.
Map
Please note that construction work undertaken can often cover an area rather than one specific place, so the pin on the map on this page is intended as a guide only.
Correspondence history
All relevant correspondence relating to this piece of work will be included here:
- 09/11/2022 – WSP Scheme raised with Asset Protection Team
- 08/12/2022 – Initial Response from Network Rail acknowledging scheme
- 14/12/2022 – WSP requesting asset records
- 31/01/2023 – WSP chasing asset records
- 08/03/2023 - WSP chasing asset records
- 14/04/2023 - WSP chasing asset records
- 23/05/2023 - WSP chasing asset records
- 01/06/2023 – Response with latest inspection report and form to fill out for records department
- 01/06/2023 – WSP returned form
- 09/06/2023 – Received records from Network rail allowing WSP to carry out assessment to determine if footway would affect structure
Between the 9 June and 3 August, WSP’s Structures team undertook the requested structural calculations to expediate the project and assist Network Rail.
- 03/08/2023 – WSP sent findings to Network Rail
- 08/08/2023 – Confirmation info sent to Network rail structures team
- 28/09/2023 – WSP & SC chasing network rail response
- 28/09/2023 – Response from network rail contact stating they have chased network rail structures team for a response.
- 03/10/2023 – Network Rail structures team asked question about density of materials for calculations
- 05/10/2023 – WSP provided density of materials for calculations
- 13/11/2023 – WSP chased Network Rail response.
March 2024
I am pleased to start this week off to let you know we’ve received a formal response from Network Rail on the scheme on Belvidere Bridge
The Asset Protection team have confirmed they have assessed our designs and calculations are happy with the information given. Unfortunately we now have to engage with the NWR Assessment Team for the legal approval and agreements to be worked through, we do now have a dedicated engineer called Yu for this which is a great advancement to where we have been the past two years; they have also suggested we meet them to talk through the project and I will use this opportunity to stress the local concerns and frustrations.
Hoping we get the formal agreement soon, obviously this is a frustrating scheme for us all especially with the time its taking for Network Rail to respond and this isn’t the approval to start build but I want to update you with any update we get and reassure you this is being chased up with Network Rail.
We will update the members portal with this information and following the meeting with the engineer
Thanks
Ffi
Contact
Please contact s106projects@shropshire.gov.uk with any comments or queries.
Please note that all queries the teams receive along with the responses will be uploaded onto the portal to provide updated information for everyone. Please don't include any personal or sensitive information as this will need to be redacted.