Kensington precinct work notifications

Public realm works

Childers Street and JJ Holland Park

Ongoing to late-2021

• Installing legacy public realm elements including finishing works to Childers Street and installing tiles to the flood wall for the creative design
• Road works will take place on Childers Street east of the Bill Vanina Pavilion. These works may include saw cutting which will generate some periods of high-level noise during normal construction hours
• Traffic management will be in place to manage traffic and pedestrian movements around the worksites.

Tunnel entrance rail services installation – enabling works

Childers Street, decline structure

Ongoing to late-2021

• Installing brackets in the decline structure to house rail services. These works include drilling and fixing to decline structure walls.

Egress building construction

Childers Street

Ongoing until late-2021

• In early October, work will commence on excavating and installing a stormwater drain adjacent to the egress building
• Excavation for sewer and water main diversion works to connect the egress building to the existing sewer network will be carried out through October into November
• Saw cutting and breaking out concrete as part of excavating the sewer line will generate periods of high level noise.

Service investigation and relocation

Childers Street

Ongoing to late-2021

• Utility investigation works will be undertaken intermittently on Childers Street, between Ormond and Tennyson streets, and on Tennyson Street, between Childers and Altona streets to assist with planning for the egress building’s future utility connections
• This involves scanning, cutting through the road and footpath surface, using non-destructive digging (NDD) trucks to locate underground surfaces and then reinstating the road and footpath surface. NDD uses pressurised water to dig and then vacuum up the soil to expose assets and services underground without damaging them
• These works may include intermittent impacts to traffic, footpaths and on-street parking adjacent to the work area. See the ‘traffic and transport impacts’ section for further information.

Groundwater well decommissioning

Western Portal site and JJ Holland Park

Ongoing to late-2021

• Groundwater wells around the Western Portal site will be decommissioned in October. During initial construction, these wells were used to conduct groundwater level monitoring
• Hand tools and a pump will be used to fill the boreholes with grout
• Traffic and pedestrian access are not expected to be impacted by these works, with some minor diversions in place
• Decommissioning works will be conducted during normal working hours and is expected to generate low to medium levels of noise.

Temporary capping beam removal

Childers Street

Ongoing to late-October

• Removing temporary capping beams on the eastern and western walls of the egress building
• The concrete blocks will be sawcut and removed from site one at a time
• All trucks transporting the concrete blocks will travel via Childers Street only
• Saw cutting will generate periods of medium to high level noise.

Track form concrete in decline structure

Childers Street

Ongoing until November