Contract Awarded For 4th Phase Of Armadale-Broadford Road

The Highland Council has awarded a contract valued at £4,538,000 to RJ McLeod Contractors to build the fourth phase of the A 851 Armadale – Broadford road on Sleat, Skye. Work is expected to commence next month on the new road, which will stretch from Armadale to the Gaelic College at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, including areas of the carriageway damaged during the storms at the beginning of this year. Like the other three phases of the road, the contract has attracted Euro funding.

R J McLeod also built the third phase of the road between Isle Ornsay to Teangue at a cost of £3.5 million.

The fifth and final stage will upgrade the road through the crofting communities to link the third and fourth phases. This will then complete two-lane carriageway between Armadale and Broadford. The total cost involved will be an estimated £15 million.

Meanwhile, the Council’s Transport Environmental and Community Services Committee has also agreed that the upgrading of the A 836 Melvich – Strathy project in Sutherland should be given the top priority in being submitted for consideration to the European Transitional Fund, in the event that funds become available within the EU funding programme. The project is scheduled to go ahead in 2006-2007.