Traffic measures agreed to cushion impact of Inverness market contract

The Highland Council is to introduce new traffic management measures to cushion the impact of works at the Victorian Market, Inverness, which has required part of Academy Street to be cordoned off to accommodate a works’ compound.

Over the coming days, as the scaffolding and advertising hoarding are completed, the traffic management arrangements will be adjusted as necessary in order to reduce congestion and maintain safe conditions on the roads and footways. Staff of the Council’s Transport Environmental and Community Services are working with the Project Manager and the Contractor’s traffic management specialists, ALBA, to ensure that all the following planned items are progressed:- 

TECS staff will continue to monitor the contract to make sure that no unforeseen problems develop.  

The contract is being managed by the Council’s Housing and Property Service, who consulted with TEC Services over the effects on the public road of the scheme to replace the roof of the Victorian Market.  In the absence of a suitable alternative location for the site compound and loading area, TECS agreed to the occupation of the footway, and part of the carriageway, in Academy Street outside the entrance to the Victorian Market.   

This agreement was subject to submission of a satisfactory traffic management arrangement, based on the following;

The Council is spending £891,000 on a major contract at the Victorian Market, which includes repair of the roof.