Constructor NMCN has won a £5.5million contract to build the Woodville to Swadlincote link road.

The Constrution Index reports the South Derbyshire Regeneration Route is being built to enable housing development on former open cast mine workings.

Derbyshire County Council is working to open up the land adjacent for development.

The first section of the new link road has already been constructed as part of the Woodville Woodlands housing development, taking traffic from the A511 Ashby Road to Occupation Lane.

The remaining section completes the link from Occupation Lane to the A514 Swadlincote Road.

When the contract was put out to tender earlier this year, the estimate contract value was £8million.

But Nottinghamshire company NMCN saw off seven other bidders with a winning price of £5,499,000.

Construction of the route is expected to take 10 months.

D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership last month approved investment to part-fund the completion of the route which will support major regeneration plans for the area Local enterprise partnership will help fund completion of regeneration route