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Falmouth Town Centre - Important info!
16/10/2017
Following close consultation with local traders, Cornwall Council Highways and the Town Centre Manager, we have agreed a plan that will enable them to start essential work on the low voltage electricity network in January.
Following a number of low voltage faults on the local electricity network in Market Street, this project will involve the removal and replacement of underground cables and the installation of a new substation.
Jon Nesbitt, Distribution Manager for WPD explained: “This is a difficult project due to the location of the cables in a busy town centre. We want to minimise any disruption to the town centre, its traders and visitors as much as possible and what has been agreed should cause least disruption and enable us to carry out this work.”
Phase one of this five year project will commence in January for three months. These dates have been agreed to avoid the busy Christmas period and all the other activities that take place in the town throughout the year.
Jon continued: “WPD will be running a number of drop-in sessions in the town’s ‘One Stop Shop’ so that any affected traders and residents can speak to a representative of the contractors, Kier May Gurney, undertaking the excavations on our behalf. These sessions will run between 12 noon and 7pm through the 7th and 9th of November so do pop along if you want to discuss any concerns related to this work.”
As part of phase one, a section of road between the junction of Market Street and Market Strand and the junction of Market Strand and Fish Strand Hill will be closed between 8th January and 16th March 2018.
Phase two of this project will begin in January 2019 when further details will be provided of our plans.
Following a number of low voltage faults on the local electricity network in Market Street, this project will involve the removal and replacement of underground cables and the installation of a new substation.
Jon Nesbitt, Distribution Manager for WPD explained: “This is a difficult project due to the location of the cables in a busy town centre. We want to minimise any disruption to the town centre, its traders and visitors as much as possible and what has been agreed should cause least disruption and enable us to carry out this work.”
Phase one of this five year project will commence in January for three months. These dates have been agreed to avoid the busy Christmas period and all the other activities that take place in the town throughout the year.
Jon continued: “WPD will be running a number of drop-in sessions in the town’s ‘One Stop Shop’ so that any affected traders and residents can speak to a representative of the contractors, Kier May Gurney, undertaking the excavations on our behalf. These sessions will run between 12 noon and 7pm through the 7th and 9th of November so do pop along if you want to discuss any concerns related to this work.”
As part of phase one, a section of road between the junction of Market Street and Market Strand and the junction of Market Strand and Fish Strand Hill will be closed between 8th January and 16th March 2018.
Phase two of this project will begin in January 2019 when further details will be provided of our plans.
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