A major contract to upgrade a road at the edge of Oliver’s Mount in Scarborough has been won by North Yorkshire construction company Houseman and Falshaw. 

The £500,000 work on Queen Margaret’s Road is designed to make it ready for use by buses in the town’s park-and-ride service as part of the Scarborough Integrated Transport Scheme. Work will involve piling to deal with the instability of the current road and allow a current weight limit to be removed.

 There is land instability on the road’s upper section and investigation by North Yorkshire County Council engineers has shown that this is due to a pocket of clay which overlays mudstone. When water is present the clay slides down the mudstone. The shrinking and swelling of the clay during the different seasons has also led to an uneven road surface.

 Houseman and Falshaw director Clive Mitchell said: “The solution that has been agreed is a wall of bored piles, filled with concrete, which will prevent the road from slipping down the slope.”

 The road will be closed for seven weeks while the work is completed.

 Houseman and Falshaw has a long track record of civil engineering work on behalf of North Yorkshire County Council, with recent projects including the painstaking reconstruction of a listed bridge between Harrogate and Otley.

 For further information please contact Sara Lamper at Sara Lamper PR on 01423 701147