GD13 – A38 Deep Lane junction, Sherford

Deep Lane Junction is located on the A38 trunk road (also known as the Devon Expressway) a few miles east of Plymouth. The junction links the A38 to Chaddlewood, Plympton and the Langage employment site to the north via Sandy Road and will serve the proposed new community Sherford to the south via Deep Lane.

The area to the east of Plymouth is planned to experience significant growth. The new community at Sherford to the south-west of the Deep Lane Junction will provide 5,500 new homes and 83,000 square metres of employment space in the form of a sustainable mixed-use settlement. Additionally, Langage is identified as strategic employment site which will accommodate many more jobs for the area. A new Park and Ride site for Plymouth, south of Deep Lane Junction, is also planned as part of the Sherford development.

Improvements at Deep Lane junction, to increase its capacity, help to unlock the planning permission for Sherford. In particular, the permitted housing development would be capped at 1300 homes in the absence of this Phase 1 improvement, and the improvements to the Deep Lane South junction (to the southern side of the A38).

The Phase 1 improvements include the following:

  • Upgrading the existing Ridgeway roundabout of the eastbound off-slip/on-slip to a signalised junction, with a dedicated left running lane from Ridgeway towards Sandy Road.
  • Widening the carriageway to provide increased storage capacity on the approach to the Ridgeway roundabout and Deep Lane North,
  • Increasing signalised junction at Deep Lane North to provide increased storage and capacity.
  • Optimised traffic signals to manage traffic flows better

The objectives of the scheme are to:

  1. Support growth by facilitating the delivery of housing beyond 1300 homes at Sherford.
  2. Improve the efficiency of the junction to manage anticipated growth
  3. Improve journey times through the junction.

Outputs:

The scheme supports the delivery of 220 jobs and 700 houses

Started on site: June 2016
Completed: July 2017

Total scheme cost: £2.96m

Growth Deal Funding £1.91m

 

Send us a message


    David Ralph

    Chief Executive

    David Ralph started as Chief Executive of Heart of South West LEP at the beginning of June 2018. Previously, he had spent 5 years as CEO of the Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (D2N2) LEP from 2013 where he oversaw the development of the D2N2 Strategic Economic Plan and sector strategies, 3 Growth Deals with HM Government to deliver a £1billion capital investment programme, securing and implementing £200m ESIF programme, the Derby and Nottingham Enterprise Zone, the D2N2 Skills Deal and Time for Innovation programme, community fund and led the executive team to develop the HS2 East Midlands hub. He was also closely involved in the proposed North Midlands Devolution Deal and one of the key architects in establishing the Midlands Engine, chairing the officer steering group. Whilst in this role David was a NED of the Nottingham Enterprise Zone, and Marketing NG, the Outer Estates Foundation and a Governor of Nottingham College and on the advisory Board of Nottingham Business School.

    Before the East Midlands, David was CEO of the Have Gateway Partnership working closely with local stakeholders including the ports of Felixstowe, Harwich and Ipswich and BT Adadastral Park across Suffolk and Essex and prior to that was Chief Exec of the Barton Hill New Deal for Communities programme in Bristol and the Nelm Development Trust in Norwich.

    David is a keen sailor, walker and trail runner.