Balfour Beatty clinches £200m Mottram Bypass

The £200m Mottram bypass project is a major element of a £242m package of highway improvements to ease congestion on the 25-mile route connecting the M67 in the North West to the M1 in Yorkshire.

The team will design and construct the bypass to take traffic away from the village of Mottram in Longdendale on the outskirts of Manchester.

Following further public consultation, a planning application will be submitted next year. If the plans are approved by the government, then work on the project could start by spring 2023. 

The new dual carriageway would run from the end of the M67 (junction 4) and through a new underpass to the north of Mottram in Longdendale.

The road would then join the A57 east of the junction with the A6018 (Black Moor). 

A new single carriageway road is also being planned to link the A57 from Mottram Moor to Woolley Bridge, taking traffic away from the current route of the A57 along Woolley Lane. 

updated: 24/08/2020