Parking surveys and ground investigations - April 2026

Thank you to everyone who shared their views on our plans to improve Rock Street and Nottingham Street. We are now reviewing the feedback we received following our consultation to inform design.

To develop our plans further, we now need to do some surveys in the area to get more detailed information about parking.

We also need to understand what kinds of services and utilities are under the ground in the areas we would be looking to work.

Parking surveys

We’re planning a parking survey along Rock Street, Nottingham Street and surrounding streets. We will install cameras to monitor parking in the area between Wednesday 29 April and Saturday 2 May.

No personal information or registrations will be recorded.

Ground investigations

So we can understand the services and utilities under the ground, we will do some radar surveys from Tuesday 5 May.

To do this, our contractor will be on site with small machinery that uses radar signals to show where cables and pipes are positioned.

We expect radar surveys to take about a week to complete, and we’ll keep disruption to a minimum while we work. The results of radar surveys will tell us if and where we need to do any further ground investigations.

Later on, we will need to dig some holes in pavements to get more detailed information about where cables and pipes are, and if they will impact our plans. We’ll provide updates when we know more about these works.

We will keep you updated about those works on this page.