The existing single-track road will be realigned and a new road constructed to a width of 6.3 metres wide, connecting the B9082 junction with the A968 Ulsta to Gutcher Road and its junction with the road to Cullivoe Pier.  

The contract works also include associated drainage and landscaping but don’t include road surfacing works, which will be done in-house by the council’s Roads Service. 

The budgeted cost of the project is up to £7.44M, excluding VAT.

Councillor Moraig Lyall, chair of the Council’s Environment and Transport Committee, said: “I’m pleased to see this contract notice published, so that we can award this contract and for work to get underway soon to replace the Cullivoe Road which the community there have been waiting for for some time.”