Parking restrictions and road closures will be facilitated by East Lothian Council to allow for the delivery of a second super grid transformer unit to the Inchcape development on the former Cockenzie Power Station site.
The restrictions will take place overnight on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 January to allow for the abnormal load to be transported from the Port of Leith to the Inchcape Offshore Wind Farm Substation being constructed at Cockenzie.
The route involves the A1, A198 at Bankton Junction, B6371 (Meadowmill roundabout to East Lorimer Place) and B1348 Edinburgh Road to the site.
Road closures will be in operation in the early hours of the morning on the B1348 Edinburgh Road from its junction with Avenue Road to its junction with Cadell Place.
Parking suspensions will be in place between 6pm on Saturday and 6am on Sunday on both dates.
The first transformer unit was delivered on Sunday 11 January. Inchcape postponed the delivery of the second unit planned for the following Sunday which will now take place this weekend.
Hedge replanted
A section of hedge at East Lorimer Place was temporarily removed to allow the abnormal loads to pass and this will be replanted following the completion of the second delivery. The hedge removed has been replanted at Drummhor Cemetery to ensure continued growth and new hedging will be planted in the original location once the deliveries have concluded.
For more information on the Inchcape development, visit their website.
Current roadworks at the Alder Road junction, which relate to utility diversion work for a new road that will link to the existing B1348 road, will be paused to accommodate the load’s transfer. The new link road, once completed, will help to facilitate further economic development of the site as a whole and is separate to the Inchcape transportation works.