Ickenham Road Lane Closure for 3^rd Party Works – Sun 24/03 at 10pm to Mon 25/03 at 5am
HS2 Community Event for SCS – Wed 27/03 in
TBM Segment Delivery by Lorry to West Ruislip
Forward Planning – Breakspear Rd South – Road Closure under Railway Bridge for Culvert works 
 
 
 Ickenham Road Lane Closure for 3^rd Party Works – Sun 24/03 at 10pm to Mon 25/03 at 5am
 
I have been informed by the LBH Streetworks Team that they have granted Affinity Water a Permit to undertake works to a water leak on the Bridge on Ickenham Road (between the Tube Station and HS2 West Ruislip Portal Site Entrance).
 
The works will commence on Sun 24/03 at 10pm with a Lane Closure (Eastbound Lane) in place until 5am on Mon 25/03.
 
The Traffic Management should be clear in time for Monday morning rush hour as long as everything goes to plan (Map below showing location of works on Ickenham Road):

 
HS2 Community Event for SCS – Wed 27/03 in Ickenham
 
There is a Community Drop-In Event this coming week for SCS:
 

• Wednesday 27/03/24 – SCS Drop-In Event held between 4pm and 7pm at Ickenham United Reformed Church, Swakeleys Rd, Ickenham, Uxbridge UB10 8BE

To discuss ongoing works in Hillingdon with the Project Team and share recent Drone Footage
 
No need to book in advance please feel free to attend any time between 4pm and 7pm

 
TBM Segment Delivery by Lorry to West Ruislip
 
LBH have received a request from HS2/SCS for up to 24 lorries per day (Mon to Sat) to bring Segments for the TBMs into the West Ruislip Portal by road during the hours of 8am to 10pm.
 
With both TBMs now once again tunnelling at full capacity they seem to be going at a much faster rate than previously thought (tunnelling up to 22 metres per day). When SCS calculated their requirements to keep the TBMs serviced with Segments last year they were working on the assumption that the TBMs would not tunnel more than 15 metres per day, so they would need approx. 700 Segments per week.
 
This was managed with the overnight Rail Deliveries of Segments into West Ruislip Portal, with 5 Trains per week each delivering 140 Segments (equalling the required 700 Segments per week).
 
With the increased speed of the tunnelling SCS now require additional Segments to keep the TBMs running, and as they cannot get any more than 5 Trains per week into West Ruislip due to limitations with capacity with Network Rail, the only solution is to bring in the additional Segments that are required by road. It has also been the case that with Rail Strikes more frequent over the last few months there have been a few occasions where SCS are only getting 3-4 deliveries by Rail per week.
 
The lorries would all use the existing Approved Lorry Route entering West Ruislip Portal (via Swakeleys Roundabout, Swakeleys Road, Ickenham Road) and return using the same route. The majority of these deliveries would be expected to be carried out during Core Working Hours (Mon to Fri 8am to 6pm & Sat 8am to 1pm) but there may be up to 6 lorry deliveries each day that fall outside the Core Hours and would be delivered up to 10pm.
 
LBH have agreed that SCS can trial these deliveries by road now until the end of April, with SCS will carrying out Engagement with residents to advise of the additional lorries delivering the Segments.
 
LBH will continue to review the situation before committing to allow this to be extended until around August 2024 (which is the current requested date). LBH did question the viability of bringing the lorries in along Swakeleys Road, Ickenham Road into the West Ruislip Portal, but were advised that due to maintenance works due to take place on the internal Haul Roads it would not be feasible at the outset to route the lorries via either Harvil Rd Gate 2 or Breakspear Rd South (and along the Haul Roads to the Portal).
 
Please note that there will be no additional lorries over the agreed 550 lorry movements per day around Swakeleys Roundabout with these additional Segment deliveries built into that daily limit. Over the last few months there has been a noticeable drop off in the amount of HS2 lorries delivering to the HS2 Sites in Hillingdon, so these deliveries should not cause any additional impact to our Road Network in the north of the borough.
 
In summary:
 

• SCS Requesting up to 24 Segment lorry deliveries each day during extended hours – 8am to 10pm Mon to Sat
• 24 lorries x 6 days = (144 lorries / 3 segments per lorry = 432 segments)
• In addition to up to 5 Train deliveries per week at Night (140 Segments per Train x 5 nights = 700)
• Total amount of Segments per week = 1132
• Of the 24 lorries per day it would be likely that up to 6 lorries would be delivering outside Core Hours (between 6-10pm)
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• Mon 29/07 to Sun 11/08 (2 Weeks during School Summer Holidays)
• Works to upgrade the existing Culvert to improve the drainage in the area
• These works are expected to take up to 2 weeks to complete

 
These works are the last large Road Closure in the HS2 Highways Programme in LBH and have been in the pipeline for over a year now. At present the existing Culvert near the Chiltern Line Bridge does not have the required capacity to take away water run off from the road and as a consequence this area of road is susceptible to flood related issues. The installation of a new Culvert will be able to handle a larger volume of water and should therefore lead to less of a threat of flooding in this area.