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Southside Public Realm traffic management update

The Southside Public Realm Improvement Scheme will be delivered in two stages:

  • an interim scheme for completion pre-Commonwealth Games (completed in June 2022), and,
  • a final scheme post Commonwealth Games, due to commence in Autumn 2023 for approximately 12 to 18 months.

Phase 1 of the interim measures were completed in the run up to Christmas 2021. Phase 2 of these works were completed in June 2022, ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

The Phase 2 works will complete the Hurst Street corridor from Hill Street to Inge Street (adjacent to the Hippodrome Theatre). And the delivery of a new public square outside the Hippodrome, Southside Building and Arcadian as a new events space for the area.

The first package of Phase 2 included work on the Hurst Street footways from Smallbrook Queensway to Thorp Street, which was completed in March 2022.

The ongoing transformation of the public square, with new below-ground ducting, drainage, and finally new surfacing with a uniform level from building frontage to building frontage was completed in June 2022, ahead of the Commonwealth games programme.

Aerial view of the new Hippodrome Square

Aerial view of the new Hippodrome Square

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