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What is the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route?
Where does the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route run?
How was the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route be paid for?
The new £30 million road opened to traffic 6 months ahead of schedule on Tuesday 21st December 2004.
What is the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route?
The Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route is a new £30 million road between Pleasley and Rainworth. The road is the single biggest ever regeneration project set up by the County Council.
The Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route will improve road links between the M1 and A1 and will also help to:
- Make residential streets in Mansfield and Ashfield safer by diverting up to 5,000 vehicles every day onto the new road;
- Encourage new businesses to move into Mansfield and Ashfield bringing up to 10,000 new jobs to the area;
- Improve bus services into Mansfield and Ashfield by reducing traffic queues on existing roads.
Where does the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route run?
From the west the road runs from the A617 at Pleasley Hill, across to Penniment Farm, to join the Sutton bypass at Beck Lane in Ashfield.
The route then uses the existing roads pass round to the Kings Mill Hospital and the nearby reservoir. The new road then swings towards Cauldwell Dam then across the A60 at Rushley Farm where it enters Mansfield. The road skirts the Berry Hill and Bellamy Road estates and finally links up to the Rainworth bypass – the first part of the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route to be already completed.
There will also be a link road off the route known as the Bellamy Link Road. This will link up with Oaktree Lane and complete the Mansfield Eastern Ring Road.
How was the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route paid for?
The cost of building the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route was met by the Government.
The road is part of the County Council’s award winning Local Transport Plan – the blueprint for better travel and transport in Nottinghamshire.
This year over £28 million is being invested in a range of travel projects across Nottinghamshire to improve local roads, buses, pavements and town centres.
The Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route is a Nottinghamshire County Council working in partnership with
Department for Transport
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