How to win: Transport Planning, Highway Design and S278 Services - Daedalus Link Road-Fareham Borough Council

About this contract

Fareham Borough Council (FBC) is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced consultant to deliver transport planning, highway design and S278 services for the Daedalus Link Road scheme at Solent Airport, Fareham. FBC are the landowner, developer and local planning authority for this scheme. Ward Williams are appointed as Project Manager on behalf of FBC. The appointed consultant will work under the direction of Ward Williams throughout the commission. The Daedalus site is a former military airfield that has been developed as an employment and innovation hub. The link road is required to improve highway network resilience, distribute traffic across the Faraday Business Park and unlock further employment-led development at Faraday North and Faraday South. Transport feasibility work has been undertaken and the preferred alignment has been confirmed as the Spitfire Way alignment connecting Spitfire Way to Meteor Way.

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