A30 Kennards House to Five Lanes road safety improvements

We're investigating safety improvements to the A30 from Kennards House to Five Lanes that would improve road safety for drivers and local communities.

Start date Spring 2025

End date Winter 2025

Cost £4.6m

Latest updates

15 November 2024
Plusha and Trevell junctions – restrictions on traffic movements

Safety is our number one priority, and our thoughts are with the families and friends of all those affected by the recent incident on the A30. We’re working with police partners to fully understand the cause.

In September, we unveiled plans to implement a suite of safety measures along the A30 between Kennards House and Five Lanes. We’re currently reviewing all feedback received from our engagement events and public survey regarding our proposals.

Whilst we investigate a potential permanent solution, we are restricting some traffic movements in the area.

We have:
- closed the right turn at Plusha from the B3257 onto the eastbound A30
- restricted traffic movements from crossing the A30 carriageways at the Trevell junction
- reduced the speed limit in this section from 70mph down to 50mph
The right turn from the A30 onto the B3257 at Plusha remains open.

Our partners - Cornwall County Council, and Devon and Cornwall Police - are supportive of this decision.

Well signed diversions are in place where appropriate.

We will update this webpage with further information as soon as it’s available.
01 November 2024

Thank you for your feedback on our proposals

Thank you for all of you who submitted feedback on our proposals to improve road safety on the A30 between Kennards House and Five Lanes.

The survey has now closed.

It’s important for us to understand comments from local communities. We're very grateful for your engagement.

All feedback will now be collated and reviewed by our project team.

Once reviewed, we will discuss the key themes with local stakeholders and community representatives. We aim to do this by the end of the year.

We will update this webpage with further information as soon as it’s available.
01 October 2024

Our safety improvement plans

Thank you to everyone who attended the public session on 26 September at Lewannick Village Hall.

It was incredibly useful to listen to and understand comments from the local communities.

For anyone unable to attend, or who would like to take another look, here are details of our proposals.

If you would like to provide us with any feedback on the plans, please complete our questionnaire.

Please make sure all responses are submitted by 5pm, Wednesday 30 October.
18 September 2024

Meet the team and discover our safety improvement plans - 26 September 2024

Thank you to everyone who attended the public session on 26 September at Lewannick Village Hall.

It was incredibly useful to listen to and understand comments from the local communities.

We will be uploading the proposals and questionnaire to this website next week. This will then remain open for two weeks to allow for feedback.
12 September 2024
What we've been doing

We’ve been gathering information to help shape our plans to improve road safety on the A30.

Information gathering is key when planning any scheme. It helps us get a full picture of where improvements are needed.

So far, we've reviewed:
- 10 years’ worth of safety data for the route
- traffic flows and movement round junctions, both on the A30 and on local side roads
We've also assessed:
- junctions, signs, road markings and studs, safety barrier and visibility splay and developed plans to improve them
- agricultural vehicle movements to identify improvements we could make for these types of vehicles
- pedestrian, cyclists and horse-rider movements to identify improvements which could be made for these types of users
- environmental and cultural heritage improvements we could incorporate into the scheme
We’re keen to use local knowledge, advice and experience. We've started to gather information, ideas and opinions from stakeholders including:
- your local councillors
- parish council members
- blue light services
- Cornwall Council
Next steps

We’ve used this information to develop our plans and we’ll soon also be sharing these with local communities.

We'll provide more information on this page.

See more updates

Project information

The A30 between Kennards House and Five Lanes suffers from a significant level of collisions, particularly at junctions.

We are carrying out surveys and investigations to help identify opportunities to improve road safety along this route.

The road safety improvements will include activities such as:

junction and visibility improvements, including partial gap closures diverting some traffic to other junctions
working with Cornwall Council to provide mitigation where traffic is diverted to local roads
improvements to traffic signs, road markings and road studs
improvements to safety features such as roadside barriers

This work is to improve safety and won't change capacity along the A30.

Benefits include:

improving safety along the A30 and local road junctions – reducing the number, severity and frequency of incidents for the travelling public and local communities
improving the experience of driving on the A30
reducing delays as a result of a reduction in incidents
improved agricultural provision
improved historic cultural heritage feature including a mile stone marker