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Project Update 08/01/2026

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Hi everyone,

Happy New Year!

It was great to meet those of you who attended our Customer Event on 10 December at Hesleden Working Men’s Club. We appreciate that not everyone could make it, so I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Colin Short, and I am Northumbrian Water’s Project Manager for this scheme. I’ll be overseeing the project through to its completion.

Over the next month, our site team will begin enabling works, including vegetation clearance and creating additional passing places along the bridleway. We will also be setting up our site compound in the Quarry site.

Following these enabling works, construction will commence. This will involve installing approximately 575 metres of new underground sewer to replace the existing above-ground sewer pipe bridge at Hesleden Dene, which will be demolished.

As the project progresses, we’ll share regular updates throughout the construction phase. If you have any queries or require additional assistance, please feel free to post a comment.

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Profile of Jeffrey Slater
Posted by:Jeffrey Slater
4 months ago
The works for the sewage plant at Hesleden commenced in the new year but today as I was looking out of my living room window at about 7.45am 8 Teward tipper wagons went down to your quarry compound and now we have had six more waiting there time parked up on Gray Avenue, engines running some lifting their canopy off their loads. I would have thought that you would have been under the same rules as the quarry traffic and not been allowed to park or wait on Grey Avenue as not only is this a noise & air pollution it could hamper emergency vehicles should they be needed
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Posted by:Community Hub Admin Team
4 months ago
Hi@Jeffrey Slater Thank you for getting in touch. The project team are reviewing the points you have raised and will provide you with an update at the earliest opportunity. Thank you for your continued patience.
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Posted by:Community Hub Admin Team
4 months ago
Hi Jeffrey, Thank you for your patience and for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We sincerely apologise for the disruption caused by the build-up of wagons accessing our working area along Gray Avenue on Thursday 22 January. We want to reassure you, and the local community, that steps have now been taken to prevent this from happening again. Vehicles accessing the site have been instructed not to park or remain idle along Gray Avenue, and deliveries are now being staggered to reduce congestion. Canopies will remain closed until vehicles are safely supervised into the site compound by banksmen. We have also created an additional stoned area within the site to provide additional space for vehicles. Vehicles accessing our site compound are to keep their speed limit below 30mph, reducing to 10mph from the Gray Avenue/Front Street junction. Thank you again for bringing this to our attention, and we appreciate your understanding while we carry out this essential work.
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