All brickwork to the elevations on Woodland Court have now been completed. And last week the chimney fitted into place. Now this has been done, more of the scaffold can now be stripped and further external work can progress.

 

 

 

 

Keeping you in the loop...

Bus stop improvements on Staincliffe Road, Dewsbury.

Kirklees Council is planning to carry out improvement work to two bus stops on Staincliffe Road. The bus stop improvements are required as part of the Woodland Court Extra Care housing scheme on School Lane which is currently being built. 

The works will be carried out on bus stop BS61210 which is outside the Gladstone Court homes and BS16216 which is the adjacent to Woodland Court. There will be a new fully enclosed bus shelter outside Gladstone Court and a new cantilever bus shelter adjacent to Woodland Court. Please take a look at the enclosed plans that show the bus stop proposals.

The bus stops will have new high boarder kerbs installed to make it easier for wheelchair users and people with poor mobility to get on and off the bus. New yellow bus stop clearway markings are also going to be put down on the road to prevent vehicles parking near the bus stops. This will allow buses to park alongside the boarder kerbs every time and make sure that access to the local bus service is maintained.

The Woodland Court Extra Care housing scheme is part of the Kirklees Excellent Homes for Life Project which will build 466 new homes for rent across Kirklees. For further information on the Excellent Homes for Life project please visit www.kirklees.gov.uk/excellent homes or telephone 01484 225210 to speak to a member of the team.

If you have any questions or comments about the highway proposals, please telephone Rashid Mahmood on: 01484 225633 or email: Rashid.Mahmood@kirklees.gov.uk no later than the
14 December 2012. If you need to contact us outside normal office hours, you can ring Streetscene Customer Care on 01484 414 700.

Funder Words are Go... !

 

The Woodland Court site team were today visited by John Gilmore, the General Manager of John Laing and a consortium of funders. The team were escorted around the scheme and were very complimentary on how it has progressed since their last visit.

It'll be All White on the night!

The Hygiene Kitchen is well in progress and all of the white hygiene boards are now installed. The catering equipment will be in place for Christmas.

 

Gas Reinforcement to School Lane

Enterprise have informed Wates that they will be commencing the medium pressure gas main renewal from Monday 19th November.  These works will unfortunately cause some disruption, but as ever we aim to keep any disruption to the local areas to a minimum.

 

Going Potty !

Now all the building is complete, we will be finishing the chimney off and fitting the chimney pots on Wednesday, we are all looking forward to this, as it enables further scaffolding to be stripped to make way for the external works.

Over the next week or two Crossway Scaffolding will be progressively stripping scaffolding to the external of the building after cleaning has taken place.

We are all looking forward to seeing the scaffold down, which will enable the external groundworks to commence...

 

 

Wates Family Visit

On Halloween the team at Woodland Court escorted John Wates around the site, highlighting the performance of the scheme to date.  Mr Wates made some favourable comments to the team on his tour of the site, and complemented them on their endeavours to complete on programme.

 

We would like to thank all our operatives and colleagues that make these visits such a pleasant occasion.  Well done to all!