Kidbrooke
Our site in Kidbrooke is located at the end of Nelson Mandela Road in the Royal Borough of Greenwich (between the National Maritime Museum Collections Centre and the Birdbrook Nature Reserve).
We are building a permanent tunnel shaft and headhouse building to provide ventilation and access to the cable tunnel once it has been built. Planning consent for the headhouse building was granted in February 2019 by the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Timeline:
- We are due to occupy the site in spring 2022 and begin digging the shaft in summer 2022.
- Headhouse construction is scheduled to begin in late 2022.
Site specific FAQs
Access
Our construction vehicles will use Nelson Mandela Road to enter and leave the site.
Traffic
We anticipate that there will be a low volume of HGV movements – approximately 8 HGV movements per day during shaft construction, and 4 per week during headhouse construction.
Working hours
Site working hours will be 7am to 5pm Monday to Friday, and 8am to 1pm on Saturdays. No work on Sundays or Bank Holidays is expected.
Dimensions
The shaft will be approximately 10.5m in diameter and up to 19m in depth. The headhouse will have a footprint of 8.5m by 4.7m by 5m in height.