For each of its scheduled meetings, the Parish Council prepares or updates a list of issues which require action and resolution by GCC Highways.
If you are aware of any issues which are not featured on these lists, please contact the Clerk to the Council on info@coberleyparish.co.uk and provide as much detail as possible.
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – September 2024 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – September 2024 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – July 2024 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – July 2024 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – May 2024 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – May 2024 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – February 2024 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – February 2024 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – December 2023 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – December 2023 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – August 2023 – MAJOR ITEMS WITH GCC UPDATES
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – August 2023 – MINOR ITEMS WITH GCC UPDATES
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – August 2023 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – August 2023 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – June 2023 with GCC Highways updates – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List – June 2023 with GCC Highways updates – MINOR ITEMS
NOTE: CPC Highways Action List March 2023 – MINOR ITEMS. The items on the Minor list are all for the new financial year and so will be updated when the new tickets have been raised for these works. Current Status
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List (with Highways’ responses) February 2023 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List November 2022 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List November 2022 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List (with Highways’ responses) May 2022 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List (with Highways’ responses) May 2022 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List January 2022 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List January 2022 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List November 2021 – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List November 2021 – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List September 2021 WITH HIGHWAYS RESPONSES – MAJOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List September 2021 WITH HIGHWAYS RESPONSES – MINOR ITEMS
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List June 2021 WITH HIGHWAYS’ RESPONSES – MAJOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List June 2021 WITH HIGHWAYS’ RESPONSES – MINOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List May 2021 – MAJOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List May 2021 – MINOR Items
GCC Highways Response March 2021
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List March 2021 – MAJOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List March 2021 – MINOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List January 2021 – MAJOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List January 2021 – MINOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List November 2020 – MAJOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List November 2020 – MINOR Items
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List July 2020
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List Nov 2019
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List Mar 2018
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List Jan 2018
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List Nov 2017
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List Sept 2017
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List July 2017
Coberley Parish Council Highways Action List May 2017
A417 Missing Link Programme
October 2024
National Highways has published its A417 Missing Link September 2024 update. You can read it here:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKHIGHWAY/bulletins/3b9019f
July 2024
National Highways and Kier will be closing Leckhampton Hill Road in various phases from Monday 5 August to Sunday 22 September. Details can be viewed here.
Note that for safety reasons, there will be no access to Ullenwood Manor Road from the A436 during this time.
May 2024
National Highways has issued a notification regarding weekend and overnight closes affecting the A417, A436 and Stockwell Lane over the coming months. Read here
April 2024
National Highways has issued a notice regarding overnight closures of the A417 between the Air Balloon roundabout and the A46 (Shurdington & Brockworth) junction during April. Read here.
March 2024
Gloucestershire County Highways has put out a notice that Coberley Mill Lane will be temporarily closed for a period in April for maintenance work. This includes pedestrian use. Read here
National Highways and Kier have issued updates on closures during March. Read here
National Highways has published its latest newsletter with updates of all aspects of the project. Read here
February 2024
National Highways and Kier have issued details of works, closures and diversions which will be taking place during February and early March. These can be read here.
Kier has announced that there will be an upcoming closure and diversion route, details of which you can read here. Please note that Crickley Hill Country Park and National Star College will be open for business as usual.
January 2024
Latest newsletter from National Highways A417 Missing Link update – January 2024 (cloud.microsoft)
National Highways has issued details of the rescheduled full weekend closure of the A436, together with other details of closures and works on Crickley Hill and Leckhampton Hill. These can be viewed here
November 2023
Latest newsletter from National Highways Air Balloon Missing Link Update – November 2023
National Highways’ contractor, Keir, has provided an update on the A417 Missing Link works:
Additional Works on the A417 Missing Link
From 6 November through to the 9 November between 21:00 – 04:00, we will have traffic lights in operation during our overnight closures. They will be positioned in three locations, A436 Leckhampton Road towards the Air Balloon roundabout, Leckhampton junction by Crickley Hill Country Park and A417 adjacent to the Air Balloon roundabout.
This will allow surveys to take place to enable works in the future regarding the high voltage ducting across the carriageway. Traffic will be stopped at the lights and follow the route around the roundabout which will be clearly signed. There will be one way traffic at any time.
Full Weekend closure
The A417 operations team have taken the decision to postpone the full weekend closure due to unforeseen circumstances and the necessity to acquire further surveys on this part of the network.
We will commence works in the New Year.
September 2023
National Highways has announced details of two sets of road closures as part of the A417 Missing Link Project.
It has also announced a series of Public Information Events to provide more detail and answer questions. Dates, times and locations of these can be found in both the leaflets below.
Details of the Crickley Hill closures are here
Details of the A436/Leckhampton Hill Road closure is here
Gloucestershire County Council has issued a Temporary Closure and 30mph Speed Restriction notification for various roads and footways in the parishes of Coberley, Cowley and Brimsfield which relates to A417 Missing Link works.
A417 Closures Notice 21 September 2023 – March 2025-Signed Intend to Notice
June 2023
National Highways has published its latest A417 Missing Link newsletter.
Preparatory work, which will ensure that local archaeology and wildlife is protected during construction, is going well.
Archaeologists have already found some interesting artefacts and historical features in the area, all of which are being analysed and recorded.
Now that the weather is warmer and reptile fencing has been installed, ecologists have been busy relocating reptiles to safer spots nearby. As part of a wider research project, they’ve also been radio tagging adders to track their movements and gather valuable data about their behaviour.
As construction draws closer, National Highways has released a series of videos, which reflect on why the A417 Missing Link project is so important and what the scheme means to local people.
For the latest newsletter and to watch the videos, visit www.nationalhighways.co.uk/a417-missing-link or follow @HighwaysSWEST on Facebook and Twitter.
May 2022
The Planning Inspectorate has issued Notification of completion of the Examining Authority’s Examination on 16 May 2022 of the Application by National Highways (formerly Highways England) for an Order Granting Development Consent for the A417 Missing Link
The findings and conclusions arising from the Examination, together with a Recommendation will be sent to the Secretary of State for Transport no later than 16 August 2022.
The Secretary of State will then have three months in which to make a decision.
Coberley Parish Council entered into a Statement of Common Ground with National Highways. https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR010056/TR010056-001775-National%20Highways%20-%207.3.10%20Statement%20of%20Common%20Ground%20with%20Coberley%20Parish%20Council.pdf
The document identifies the following between the two parties:
Matters which have been agreed; and
Matters currently outstanding (not agreed, or subject to ongoing engagement
during detailed design, construction or operation).
August 2021
Highways England is seeking development consent for the scheme under the Planning Act
2008 (the “Act”). This legislation requires Highways England to make an application to the
Planning Inspectorate (‘the Inspectorate’) for a Development Consent Order (DCO) to get
the consent they need to build the scheme.
Highways England submitted its application for a DCO on Monday 31 May 2021. This
application was accepted for examination by the Inspectorate (on behalf of the Secretary of
State) on 29 June 2021.
The Parish Council has made representation to register to become an Interested Party to take part in the Examination of the above application and will continue to press the concerns raised by the Parish (see PC responses to Consultations in 2020 and 2019 below).
Any person may make representations on the Application to the Secretary of State (that is: giving notice of any interest in, or objection to the Application).
If you should wish to do so, details of the way in which representations must be made are included in the Section 56 notice here.
Any representation relating to the Application must be submitted on a registration form and give the grounds on which it is made. The Inspectorate has issued detailed advice on registering as an Interested Party and making a Relevant Representation, to which you are advised to have regard. This Advice Note (8.2 – How to Register to Participate in an Examination) is published on the National Infrastructure Planning website under ‘Legislation and Advice’ and can be found here
Representations must be received by the Inspectorate no later than 23:59 on Thursday 2 September 2021. Please note that any submitted representations to the Inspectorate will be published on the National Infrastructure Planning website for the Application.
November 2020
Highways England consulted again on plans to upgrade the A417 Missing Link between the Brockworth bypass and Cowley roundabout, between 13 October and 12 November 2020.
Since the consultation in Autumn 2019, Highways England made some changes to the scheme’s design, which included new crossings, the gradient of the A417 as it climbs the escarpment at Crickley Hill, Cowley junction, the rerouting of the B4070 to Birdlip, improvements for walkers, cyclists, horse-riders and disabled users, and replacement common land.
Details can be found at: https://highwaysengland.co.uk/our-work/south-west/a417-missing-link/
Coberley Parish Council responded to this consultation. Here is our submission against the Oct/Nov 2020 Consultation.
Here is Coberley Parish Council’s response to the Autumn 2019 consultation
July 2020
Highways England is drawing up plans to improve the A417 Missing Link between Brockworth bypass and Cowley roundabout, with the aim of creating a more reliable and safer road, reduce rat running and improve local air quality.
In autumn 2019, Highways England asked people what they thought of these plans and is now using the feedback to amend its plans. This includes responding to requests to improve local connectivity, accessibility and reduce the scheme’s impact on communities and the environment.
Highways England needs a bit more time to amend its plans and collect survey data. This extra work will however ensure it delivers the best practicable solution for all.
The Development Consent Order application will now be submitted in 2021, and Highways England will continue to provide further scheme updates in the coming months.
You can find out the latest information about the A417 Missing Link by visiting the project website, where you can also register for updates.
If you have any questions, you can email: a417missinglink@highwaysengland.co.uk.