Improvements to car park stairwell to take place

05 Jan 2024

Paint work to improve the grip on the stairs at a multi-storey car park in Bury St Edmunds is to take place over the next fortnight.

Work is due to start on Monday at the Parkway Multi-Storey car park. The work follows on from the concrete repairs and paintwork improvements to the car park completed last year. 

The paint work is being carried out in two phases to ensure that the car park can remain open throughout.

The North end stairway (nearest B&Q) will be closed from Monday while paint work is carried out. The lift will not be accessible while the North end stairwell is being painted. Once complete, the North end stairwell will reopen as will access to the lift, and the painting of the South end stairwell (nearest the cinema) will then begin.

The length of time the work takes to complete will be subject to temperatures, but car park users are warned that there could be some disruption for the next couple of weeks.

Cllr Diane Hind, Cabinet Member for Resources at West Suffolk Council, said: “We are carrying out these works to improve the grip on the stairs for people using our car park. We appreciate that this will cause some disruption particularly for people who use the car park on a daily basis. We are managing the works so that we can keep the car park open throughout and we would ask everyone to bear with us.”

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