Kingswood Roundabouts

Following the completion of several new housing developments in the area over the past few years, Hull City Council has confirmed two schemes will take place in 2026 to increase the highway capacity of the roundabouts at Ennerdale Leisure Centre and Wawne Road/Bude Road.

In addition, the schemes will also -

  • improve cycle and pedestrian facilities to support people to walk and ride more
  • provide new signalised cycle and pedestrian crossing points to improve safety
  • see the management of trees in the area, some of which are proposed to be taken up and replanted

Where this cannot be accommodated, twice as many replacement trees will be planted to improve the local landscape.

The multi-million-pound investment has been funded through the council’s capital programme as well as an allocation of funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

The council has appointed CR Reynolds Ltd, a Hessle-based construction company, to deliver two roundabout improvement schemes in Kingswood.

Works are programmed to start in early March, with the council and its contractor taking a phased approach to minimise disruption. Both sites will also be worked on simultaneously to shorten the overall length of construction.

It is anticipated that the improvements will be completed by the end of the year.

Ennerdale Leisure Centre

Wawne Road/Bude Road Roundabout

 

Kingswood Roundabouts Latest Developments

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What you need to know about the current works

Working with our contractor, CR Reynolds Ltd, we have made significant progress on the Kingswood roundabout schemes since work started on site in February, including -

  • drainage works
  • reprofiling of the nearby embankments in order to create the space needed to increase the capacity of the carriageway

However, to facilitate the next stage of each scheme, the following traffic management arrangements will be made in May / June 2026.

Ennerdale Leisure Centre

As part of the scheme at Ennerdale Leisure Centre Roundabout, Ennerdale (north) will be closed from Thursday 21 May 2026 for around 10 weeks.

The closure will apply between the Thomas Clarkson Way / Ennerdale junction and Littondale. However, Littondale will remain open throughout.

The closure will enable CityFibre to carry out essential diversion and disconnection works, which need to take place to allow CR Reynolds Ltd to deliver road widening and drainage improvements as part of the scheme.

To minimise disruption, Northern Powergrid are also undertaking additional planned maintenance works during the same closure period. In addition, CR Reynolds Ltd will also use the closure to complete construction activities that cannot safely be undertaken under traffic management alone.

Following consultation with the city’s bus operators, a diversion route has been agreed to ensure that Sutton Park continues to receive an uninterrupted bus service.

One bus stop will be temporarily closed at Ennerdale A1033 (southbound), between the Thomas Clarkson Way / Ennerdale junction and the Sutton Road / Ennerdale junction.

The signed diversion routes, will be as follows -

Buses via

  • Sutton Road
  • Holwell Road
  • Nidderdale
  • Littondale
    (and vice versa, depending on direction of travel)

All other traffic

  • Ennerdale
  • Bude Road
  • John Newton Way
  • Thomas Clarkson Way
    (and vice versa, depending on direction of travel)

Wawne Road / Bude Road

In addition to the traffic management changes at the Ennerdale Leisure Centre Roundabout, changes will also be made as part of the Wawne Road / Bude Road Roundabout scheme.

From Tuesday 30 June, a road closure will be in place for around a month from the Wawne Road exit of the Wawne Road / Bude Road roundabout.

The closure is for vehicles travelling eastbound to allow the council’s contractor to -

  • install a new combined kerb drainage system
  • demolish an existing splitter island and construct a new one on the east approach of Wawne Road
  • undertake resurfacing works to the carriageway.

All Wawne Road (East) eastbound traffic (including buses) will need to follow a signed diversion route via Holwell Road, Honiton Road and Wawne Road. Westbound traffic will be unaffected.

A previous road closure on Wawne Road (North), via the emergency access road through Foredyke Nature Reserve, has been lifted, as vehicles can once again use Wawne Road (North) in both directions, as normal.

You can view the works and traffic management arrangements within the attached scheme plans.