Update: notice of piling and diaphragm wall activity

What we are doing

Piling and diaphragm wall activity
Following the establishment of the Old Oak Common Station site, we are continuing with piling and diaphragm wall activity (ground strengthening to support our deep excavation works for the station) in this area. This includes setting up large machinery on site, including several mobile cranes, piling rigs and excavation machinery.

Due to the size of these machines, and the large vehicles required to bring them to the site, some deliveries of machinery will need to take place early in the morning, between 5am-6:30am, to minimise disruption to traffic.

We have also started using the concrete batching plant on site for our piling and diaphragm wall activity, reducing the amount of concrete deliveries and vehicles to site.

Working hours update
We previously notified you that would be extending our working hours to allow time for the safe completion of large concrete pours from 8am to 10pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 5pm on Saturdays.

We will only work during the extended hours when necessary for these works and we do not anticipate this will be until 10pm every weekday, or 5pm every Saturday. We will also be extending out diaphragm wall excavation activity until 8pm on Mondays to Fridays, and 8am to 5pm on Saturdays from 24 September until Spring 2022.

Work will only take place on site and we will not be required to bring additional vehicles to site to support these works. Initially we will construct the diaphragm walls on the western part of site and our work will gradually move eastwards, away from residents’ properties.

Download information relating to these works

• Update: notice of piling and diaphragm wall activity

If you have a question about HS2 or our works, please contact our HS2 Helpdesk team on 08081 434 434 or email [email protected]