Long-Awaited £4m Road Project For Inverkip Set To Clear Final Hurdle

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Work to install traffic lights and create a new junction on the A78 at Inverkip looks set to start in the first few months of 2025 — 10 years after it was first proposed.

The £4.15million Inverclyde Council project is linked to creation of a new village at the former Inverkip Power Station site.

Traffic lights are to be introduced at the north entrance to the village and at the entrance to Kip Marina.

The main road access to the proposed 650-home Brueacre development at the power station site will be a T-junction off the A78 and not a roundabout as previously planned.

That junction, a short distance south of the cottages at Inverkip Bay, will also get traffic lights but only once 200 houses have been built.

Most of the funding — £3.6million — is to come from the Glasgow City Region infrastructure programme.

Councillors are being asked to agree that the final business case for the project be submitted to the Glasgow City Region project management office and, once approved by them, the scheme will progress to conclude the contract and on to construction.

A report by officials states: “Inverkip is a regional regeneration priority that recognises the need to address vacant and derelict land, open a significant redevelopment opportunity site, address housing needs supporting population growth and secure economic and environmental benefit.

“The project addresses the restricted network and junction capacity on the A78 trunk road at locations in and around Inverkip.”

Construction work is due to start in the first quarter of 2025 and be completed by the end of 2025.

This article & image appeared in Inverclyde Now.