Chesterfield News


Derbyshire County Council set to commit £200,000 for A61 traffic study


Derbyshire County Council is set to commission a £200,000 study to look at congestion issues on the A61 south of Chesterfield.

Congestion has significantly grown in recent years and is likely to continue due to several new large scale housing developments to the south of Chesterfield. In the past 6 months alone, 6 separate large sites have started or continue to be built.

Work started earlier this year on a traffic modelling survey at a cost of £135,000, and now the council are set to commission an options review which will look at what measures can be taken to deal with the level of traffic now on the A61, and to cope with expected increasing volumes.

Council Leader, Councillor Barry Lewis, said: “We’ve had a long-standing ambition to improve congestion on the A61 south of Chesterfield and are keen to see what could be done to improve the situation as soon as possible.”

“There isn’t an easy solution to this but we would expect that the study would look at a range of measures, which taken together would all make a difference to congestion.”

“If we don’t do anything then the situation will only get worse in the coming years.”

It is expected that the study will be commissioned in December 2019, with results due back in the summer of 2020.

Find out more about current developments taking place in the Chesterfield area here.

Dom Stevens

Destination Chesterfield Manager

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