Physical work has now started on the rebuild (cue angels blowing trumpets of joy!).
This first stage involves creating a ramp down to the foreshore. Next week (first week of October 2022), piling at the landward end will begin.
Piles for the first 11 spans (bents) of the jetty will be put in from the land. Spans are 5.5m-long, so that’s the first 55 metres of the jetty. After that, they’ll be piling from barge into the deep mud.
Deconstruction of the old jetty will be in two stages. The first stage is to deconstruct the landward end, except for the pre-1990s beams, piles, and cross bracing (about 22 metres of jetty), which will be kept and the new jetty built over the top. Deconstruction of the landward end will happen mid-to-late November.
The next stage is to deconstruct the seaward end of the jetty. This is likely to happen in December 2022 and January 2023.
HEB has updated the construction programme and we are now expecting the rebuild to be completed by Easter 2023 (7 April). Sorry SailGP fans.
