Steelwork to transform Haywards Heath station

Structural steelwork erection is nearing completion on the £15M Haywards Heath station and Waitrose project.

Forming part of a wider regeneration project that also includes a new multi-storey car park and station footbridge, the scheme being undertaken by BAM Construction requires 430t of steel for the supermarket and its car park.

Located on a plot that was formerly occupied by the station’s car park, BAM initially had to remove 19,000m³ of overburden in order to level the previously sloping site.

Elland Steel Structures is fabricating, supplying and erecting the steel for the project. It is forming a 2,300m² ground level Waitrose store with a 60-space car park situated above alongside office and back-of-house storage areas.

Councilor Garry Wall, Leader of Mid Sussex District Council said: “The project will deliver an improved integrated transport hub at the station, a ‘radically enhanced public realm’ around the station, improved pickup and drop-off facilities, more station car parking, a direct link from the car park to platforms, and a new Waitrose with its own parking.

“The regeneration of the station quarter will be a boost for Haywards Heath and this investment is a real vote of confidence in the town.”

The Waitrose store is due to open by the end of the year.