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

  • 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.

Project information

Overview

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

Documents

Traffic information

Information about scheduled roadworks and events on our motorways and major roads.

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