A13 Widening
- Capital Investment - Essex, Southend & Thurrock, More than £2m, LGF1
Approval Status
Fully Approved
Delivery Status
LGF Project Delivered
Project Completion Date
Autumn 2023
The A13 corridor in Thurrock links the nationally significant port infrastructure of Tilbury and London Gateway with the M25 and London. The South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP), in their Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014, identified the A13 corridor as the largest single growth opportunity in the SELEP area. However, the Plan also identified that development is constrained by the limited capacity of the strategic road network, particularly J30/31 of the M25 and the dual carriageway section of the A13. The South East Growth Deal includes a provisional allocation for widening the A13 in Thurrock. This includes funding of £5m capital grant from the Local Growth Fund for the development costs of the A13 Widening project, and up to £75m of further funding for construction. The Strategic Economic Plan identified that the A13 Widening and other planned transport investments will directly enable the creation of 4,045 jobs and 3,340 new homes by 2021, and facilitate 43,610 jobs and 11,000 homes in the corridor.
Scheme Description
The existing carriageway has 2 lanes in each direction. The widening will tie in with the existing 3-lane section of the A13 west of the interchange with the A128 and will complete a 3-lane carriageway from the M25 to the A1014 interchange. Both the A128 and A1014 interchanges are already grade-separated, but the junction with the A128 will need to be re-constructed in order to provide adequate width for the widened A13 carriageway beneath the interchange.
An additional £1.5m LGF was approved by the Accountability Board on 12 March 2021 to help fund increasing costs which had arisen due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Capital Programme delivery update
Take a look at our update on the delivery of the Local Growth Fund (LGF) and Growing Places Fund (GPF) capital programmes.
£579m of investment to East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock
In total the SELEP Growth Deal with Government has brought £579m of investment to East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock. Over the lifetime of the Growth Deal (2015-2021) we aim to deliver 78,000 jobs and 29,000 homes across the SELEP area, with the Deal set to attract a further £960m of investment into the South East over the six year period.