A30 Kennards House to Five Lanes road safety improvements

We're investigating safety improvements to the A30 from Kennards House to Five Lanes that would improve road safety for drivers and local communities.

Start date Spring 2025

End date Winter 2025

Cost £4.6m

Latest updates

12 September 2024
What we've been doing

We’ve been gathering information to help shape our plans to improve road safety on the A30.

Information gathering is key when planning any scheme. It helps us get a full picture of where improvements are needed.

So far, we've reviewed:
- 10 years’ worth of safety data for the route
- traffic flows and movement round junctions, both on the A30 and on local side roads
We've also assessed:
- junctions, signs, road markings and studs, safety barrier and visibility splay and developed plans to improve them
- agricultural vehicle movements to identify improvements we could make for these types of vehicles
- pedestrian, cyclists and horse-rider movements to identify improvements which could be made for these types of users
- environmental and cultural heritage improvements we could incorporate into the scheme
We’re keen to use local knowledge, advice and experience. We've started to gather information, ideas and opinions from stakeholders including:
- your local councillors
- parish council members
- blue light services
- Cornwall Council
Next steps

We’ve used this information to develop our plans and we’ll soon also be sharing these with local communities.

We'll provide more information on this page.

See more updates

Project information

The A30 between Kennards House and Five Lanes suffers from a significant level of collisions, particularly at junctions.

We are carrying out surveys and investigations to help identify opportunities to improve road safety along this route.

The road safety improvements will include activities such as:

junction and visibility improvements, including partial gap closures diverting some traffic to other junctions
working with Cornwall Council to provide mitigation where traffic is diverted to local roads
improvements to traffic signs, road markings and road studs
improvements to safety features such as roadside barriers

This work is to improve safety and won't change capacity along the A30.

Benefits include:

improving safety along the A30 and local road junctions – reducing the number, severity and frequency of incidents for the travelling public and local communities
improving the experience of driving on the A30
reducing delays as a result of a reduction in incidents
improved agricultural provision
improved historic cultural heritage feature including a mile stone marker