Decision details

The Maidstone Integrated Transport Package (ITP) aims to reduce congestion and ease traffic movements through the town.

Willington Street connects the A20 and A274 routes which are the two key corridors into Maidstone from the east and south east. The scope of this first phase of the strategy is to improve the operation of the junction at the northern end of Willington Street with the A20 Ashford Road and the junction at the southern end of Willington Street with the A274 Sutton Road. At present, these signalised junctions at each end of Willington Street are heavily congested under peak traffic conditions.

In March 2016, a proposed scheme was discussed and welcomed at the Environment & Transport Cabinet Committee. However, further work on this scheme shows that it will not deliver the intended benefits and therefore a re-design was required. As the re-design is significantly different to the original scheme discussed, the revised scheme is being presented to Environment and Transport Cabinet Committee. 

As Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transport & Waste, I agree to give approval to the revised outline design scheme for the A274 Sutton Road at its junction with Willington Street.