Next three months of Kenilworth HS2 works announced: Excavating, new roads and bridge builds

By James Smith

17th Aug 2024 | Local News

An artist's impression of the new Waste Lane overbridge (image via HS2)
An artist's impression of the new Waste Lane overbridge (image via HS2)

HS2 has issued its summer update for all the upcoming works around Kenilworth.

Over the past few months HS2 has submitted numerous planning applications for local works, and announced several upcoming road closures.

And now the high speed rail developer has released its summer 2024 'construction look ahead' for Warwickshire.

Upcoming work includes:

  • Delivering piling works for the Burton Green Tunnel and retaining structure
  • Excavating the Burton Green Tunnel
  • Constructing Broadwell Woods Embankment and Cutting 
  • New alignment and overbridge of Crackley Lane
  • Building Crackley Wood Embankment
  • Finishing the temporary bridge over Canley Brook 
  • Building Canley Brook viaduct
  • Moving soil from Glasshouse Wood Cutting to Kenilworth Cutting
  • Building the A46 box jack structure adjacent to the Bypass until 2024
  • Preparing to push or ‘jack’ the reinforced concrete tunnel or ‘box’ under the A46 Kenilworth Bypass in 2025
  • Piling works to build the Stoneleigh Park Green Overbridge

HS2 also said there will be the "removal of the minimum number of trees and vegetation needed to safely build the railway and prepare sites for construction".

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