Melton Highway and Leakes Road intersection upgrade
Project Timeline
- Early works and preconstruction service relocation
- completed
- Greater Western Water fresh water pumping station relocation
- completed
- Intersection construction work
- commencing late May 2025
- Project end of works
- Late 2025
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Update - May 2025
We’ve completed the relocation of the Greater Western Water freshwater pumping station and pressure release station. The pumping station has been moved 450m west of its original location, and the pressure release valve removed.
We have awarded the construction contract for the intersection upgrade, with works due to begin in late May and be completed by the end of the year.
What to expect during works
- Construction is expected to begin in late May 2025, starting with establishment of the construction site compound.
- Works will take place mainly during the day between 7am-7pm, Mondays to Fridays, and at times on Saturdays
- At times we will need to work outside these hours. We’ll be in touch to advise the community ahead of any night works.
- There will be intermittent lane closures with shuttle flow arrangements at different stages throughout construction.
- There will be short periods when we’ll need to close the intersection and detour traffic via alternative routes.
- Temporary traffic signals may operate at stages to control intersection movements during works.
- To complete the works safely, reduced speed limits and temporary traffic barriers will be in place through the work site.
- We’ll maintain access to residents and businesses at the work site.
- Crews will use modern equipment to keep noise to a minimum. However, the works will unavoidably produce noise.
- There will be high noise levels at night from heavy machinery and excavation. For the safety of road users and workers, reversing beepers are a requirement on all machinery.
Please observe on-road signage and follow directions of our traffic controllers so we can keep you and our workers safe while we complete this important intersection upgrade.
Nearby projects
The Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) and the City of Melton have a number of road projects underway or in planning across the Melton area to ease traffic congestion and make our roads safer and support Melton’s growing community. These include:
- Melton Highway Infill Duplication project (starting construction in July 2025)
- Sunshine Avenue intersection upgrades (in Planning)
For more information about City of Melton road projects, check out their Road works and closures page.
What we're doing
We are upgrading the intersection of Melton Highway and Leakes Road in Plumpton to make it safer and more efficient for road users in this growing region.
The current intersection is staggered and uncontrolled, with no crossing facilities for pedestrians.
For the five-year period ending June 2024, there were 13 car crashes at this intersection, including 8 serious injury crashes.
With City of Melton’s population projected to grow to over 400,000 residents by 2050, the existing intersection requires upgrading and aligning to service the community now and into the future.
To make it safer and easier to travel through the intersection, we’re aligning the northern and southern approaches from Leakes Road, making it a traditional cross road, and adding turning lanes and installing traffic and pedestrian lights.
Works to relocate services commenced in mid-2023 with minimal impact to neighbouring properties or motorists. Significant works to relocate the Greater Western Water fresh water pumping station were completed in April this year.
In addition to aligning all legs of the intersection, we will:
- widen the intersection to allow for new turning lanes and improved lane configuration
- install traffic lights and pedestrian facilities at the intersection
- resurface the area and apply new line marking
- install new street lighting to create a safer road environment at night
- build new kerbing and improved drainage
- remove and trim some vegetation to improve sight lines.
You can get a better idea of how the intersection will look when it’s finished in these 3D before/after images.
1. Melton Highway and Leakes Road intersection top-down aerial view
2. Melton Highway and Leakes Road intersection aerial view, looking towards the north-west
Contact us
If you’d like more information you can email us at [email protected] or call 13 11 70.