After decades in the pipeline and two years of construction, a new £49million road will open to Nottinghamshire drivers - providing a relief to traffic in the area. The Gedling Access Road, now named Colliery Way, will officially open to traffic on Tuesday, March 22 at midday. The new road links the B684 Mapperley Plains and the A612 Trent Valley Road / Nottingham Road.
The road involves the construction of a new 7.3m wide single carriageway road, 3.8km in length that follows a south-easterly direction from a new junction with the B684 at Mapperley Plains, running parallel with the A6211 Arnold Lane, through the centre of the former Gedling Colliery site, to the east of which is the Gedling Country Park.
From the former colliery site, the GAR will cross several fields, Glebe Farm and a section of the walled garden at Gedling House, which is a Grade II Listed Building, and a section of the Carlton-le-Willows Academy grounds.
