Cabinet approves contractor to build new Chatham bus station
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The regeneration of Chatham took an important step forward today with the appointment of a contractor to build a new £5 million pound bus station on Globe Lane, Chatham.
Medway Council’s Cabinet approved the appointment of leading UK construction group Morgan Sindall.
The attractive, landscaped station – due for completion next March - will use GPS (Global Positioning Systems) technology to track the progress of buses and feed customers up-to-the-minute arrival and departure times on digital display boards. It will replace the inadequate and outdated bus station inside The Pentagon shopping centre.
The bus station is being paid for from the funds that Medway receives from the Homes and Communities Agency as a key part of the Thames Gateway regeneration area.
Leader of Medway Council Cllr Rodney Chambers, said: “The appointment of Morgan Sindall as main contractor represents important progress for Chatham. It means we can now press ahead with getting this superb new bus station up and running by next year. That’s the deadline because our central government funding for the project is time-limited.”
He added: “Even though the programme currently indicates an overrun beyond 31st of March we are using every endeavour to bring the project in on time."
The new bus station – to be used by all local bus operators - will have 19 stops including 6 on Waterfront Way, the new ground-level bus, taxi and cycle route that follows the route of the demolished Sir John Hawkins Way flyover.
There will be a travel information and ticketing centre with public toilets and vending machines for refreshments.
The bus station canopies will each have a ‘living’ green sedum roof – creating an attractive view from high points such as Fort Amherst.
Waiting areas beneath the canopy roofs will be protected from the weather by tall glass screens.
The White House in Riverside Gardens will be refurbished as a base for drivers and office space for bus station managers.
For more information on the bus station and Chatham’s wider regeneration plans visit: www.medway.gov.uk/chathamfuture
Medway Council’s Cabinet approved the appointment of leading UK construction group Morgan Sindall.
The attractive, landscaped station – due for completion next March - will use GPS (Global Positioning Systems) technology to track the progress of buses and feed customers up-to-the-minute arrival and departure times on digital display boards. It will replace the inadequate and outdated bus station inside The Pentagon shopping centre.
The bus station is being paid for from the funds that Medway receives from the Homes and Communities Agency as a key part of the Thames Gateway regeneration area.
Leader of Medway Council Cllr Rodney Chambers, said: “The appointment of Morgan Sindall as main contractor represents important progress for Chatham. It means we can now press ahead with getting this superb new bus station up and running by next year. That’s the deadline because our central government funding for the project is time-limited.”
He added: “Even though the programme currently indicates an overrun beyond 31st of March we are using every endeavour to bring the project in on time."
The new bus station – to be used by all local bus operators - will have 19 stops including 6 on Waterfront Way, the new ground-level bus, taxi and cycle route that follows the route of the demolished Sir John Hawkins Way flyover.
There will be a travel information and ticketing centre with public toilets and vending machines for refreshments.
The bus station canopies will each have a ‘living’ green sedum roof – creating an attractive view from high points such as Fort Amherst.
Waiting areas beneath the canopy roofs will be protected from the weather by tall glass screens.
The White House in Riverside Gardens will be refurbished as a base for drivers and office space for bus station managers.
For more information on the bus station and Chatham’s wider regeneration plans visit: www.medway.gov.uk/chathamfuture