Narre Warren North Road is a primary arterial road that forms part of the State Route C404 along with Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road, Belgrave-Hallam Road, Monbulk Road, and Hereford Road.

It provides access to the Fountain Gate and Narre Warren District Centre and connects to the Monash Freeway and Princes Highway – which are key roads in Melbourne’s transport network. The Narre Warren North Road, between Fox Road and Belgrave-Hallam Road, in Melbourne’s South Eastern suburbs, was upgraded by the Victorian and Federal governments to improve safety and travel times for the more than 14,000 vehicles that use the road each day.

Narre Warren North Road is predominantly a dual carriageway road, except between Belgrave-Hallam Road and Fox Road, where it narrows down to a two way undivided single carriageway. Jointly funded by the Victorian and Federal governments, the Narre Warren North Road Upgrade improves safety and traffic flow for over 14,000 daily commuters in Melbourne’s south-east.

The project included

• Duplication of approximately 700 metres of Narre Warren North Road between Fox Road and Belgrave-Hallam Road, adding an extra lane in each direction.
• Upgrade of major intersections at Heatherton Road and Ernst Wanke Road.
• Signalisation of the Memorial Drive intersection to improve safety.
• Simplification of Brundrett Road intersection by removing right-turn egress.
• Simplification of Crawley Road intersection to left-in/left-out access only.
• New U-turn facilities to improve traffic flow.
• Improved access and egress for the fire station.
• Upgrade and completion of the shared-use path on the western side between Heatherton Road and Ernst Wanke Road.
• Installation of safety barriers, street lighting, signage, and landscaping.
• Drainage and utility service upgrades, including the extension of the existing culvert to support road widening.

BG&E provided civil engineering, road design, traffic modelling, flood modelling, drainage and pavement design, and geotechnical services to the project.

Key features include

• Significant improvement to the intersection layout, road alignments and overall project costs savings with the removal of the reverse curve on the Memorial Drive approach, removal of over 100 metres of retaining walls, reduction in the scale of the overhead power pole relocation, and provision of sufficient clearance to property boundaries for maintenance access.
• BG&E proposed an innovative structural solution for the retaining wall which allowed the wall to sit over the culvert but with the two structures being completely independent of each other. This enabled utilisation of standard off-the-shelf crown units, significantly reducing the procurement and construction timeframes, thus minimising the construction program and the duration of full road closures.

Works started on the project in March 2021 and were completed in May 2023