Park visitors face three days of road disruption
BRADGATE Park visitors are being warned to expect travel disruption in the area next week as a number of roads will be shut for patching and resurfacing work.
The centre of Newtown Linford, including the park’s Newtown Linford Car Park will be closed off for three days.
Main Street, Bradgate Road and Groby Lane will be shut to traffic between 9am and 3pm for three days, starting on Monday, August 8. Leicestershire County Council Highways has agreed a temporary traffic regulation order so contractors can repair potholes.
The highways department said access will be maintained to homes and properties in the village during the roadworks as far as possible.
Parking bays could also be suspended and a waiting and loading ban for vehicles will be enforced during the work.
Up to 900,000 people visit Bradgate Park and the nearby Swithland Woods every year, with August and the summer months by far the busiest. The work is being carried out at the start of the working week to keep disruption to a minimum.
A spokesman for Leicestershire County Council said: “The works will commence from the junction of Markfield Lane to the access to Bradgate Park.
“As the works progress, access will be maintained to property frontages whenever it is safe to do so.
“When required, parking bays will be suspended and a temporary prohibition of waiting and loading at any time restriction will be enforced.”
There will be signs directing Bradgate Park visitors and other traffic along a diversion route during the road closures.
ing a full team, ranging from senior leaders to forklift drivers and HGV drivers.
“From our humble beginnings as Vietnamese immigrants, we are proud of this achievement and look to continue to create opportunities and enrich the lives of all those associated with Ocean King.”
In February, Mr Thai said managers had been forced to go back on to the shop floor because of a pressing labour shortage, partly caused by restrictions on free movement imposed under the government’s Brexit plans.
Many EU workers also returned home during the pandemic and did not come back.
He said the crisis got so bad over Christmas that senior executives, including Mr Thai and his brothers, had to roll up their sleeves and drive forklifts late into Christmas Eve to fulfil orders on time.
The new property occupies the last plot of the Victory Park industrial development with Derby-based Salloway Property Consultants acting on behalf of developer Revelan Group to broker the deal.
It will see Ocean King join tenants including Scitek, Grady Joinery, Gardner Aerospace, Seamers Specialist
Joinery, Western Power Distribution and Intertek NDT. The building will have two-storey offices and warehouse accommodation with refrigerated and frozen cold storage, together with parking for 50 vehicles as well as space for loading and vehicle manoeuvring.
Paul Doolan, director of construction and property development at Revelan Group, said: “We are pleased to be working with Ocean King on its bespoke new premises in Derby, where our contractor Amphion Construction is already making good progress on the building”.
Hugo Beresford, a surveyor at joint agent Salloway Property Consultants, said: “It has been a pleasure to help put this deal together, but it is bittersweet to have disposed of the final unit on the scheme.
“We received a good level of interest in the unit, which was being built out speculatively by the client, and I’m delighted that we were able to agree sale terms with Ocean King during the construction process, enabling it to have a say in the final specification and configuration of the property.
“The result is a high-quality bespoke facility that I’m sure will serve their business operations and plans for growth over the years to come.”