Chance to meet the team behind £23m St Anne's Bridge project

The team delivering the new M67 St Anne’s Bridge at Denton will be updating everyone about the progress of the three-year scheme this weekend.

The motorway bridge replacement has reached several key milestones since work began in January last year.

This includes the recent demolition of the bridge deck, on which vehicles run, and removal of the upper section of the abutment walls, the supporting structures on either side of the bridge.

Two huge steel beams, weighing a combined 97 tonnes and carrying vital utility services including water, gas, electricity and telecommunications, connecting customers across a wide part of Greater Manchester, were successfully installed in February. Work to build the new bridge will start next year.

National Highways is working with partners Tilbury Douglas to deliver the replacement bridge and representatives from the team will be at the information event.

Mangat Bansal, National Highways’ Programme Delivery Manager, said: “Our programme of works to deliver the replacement bridge have gone extremely well. We are looking forward to meeting with residents again to share what we’ve done and explain the next phase which is coming in the new year.”

The original bridge, which carries St Anne’s Road over the M67 motorway, required extensive structural repairs due to its age and outdated style of construction, with the decision taken to replace it.

The public information event takes place tomorrow (Saturday, November 23), at St Anne’s Church, St Anne’s Road, Haughton, Denton, M34 3EB, between 10am and 4pm.

Tea and coffee will be available and there will also be a ‘guess the name of the bear’ competition for children, with an opportunity to win a cuddly toy bear.