Active Travel Fund - Phase two measures

Phase 2 will deliver more significant improvements which will require formal design procedures to be followed and will therefore take longer to deliver than phase 1 schemes. These works will be more permanent in nature; for example, cycle lane installation, permanent footway widening etc.

Work on developing phase 2 measures has commenced and several hundred initial suggestions were received from a wide variety of stakeholders across Norfolk.

A full consultation and design process for the schemes selected will be followed before these improvements can be constructed. We anticipate the majority of schemes will be delivered late 2021/2022, subject to consultation and funding. The Department for Transport (DfT) have supplied example intervention measures they will support. These are as follows:

Cycling infrastructure:

New permanent, fully segregated urban cycleway or similar
New temporary segregated cycleway
Installing segregation to make an existing cycle route safer
Point closures of roads to through traffic, apart from buses, access and disabled

Walking infrastructure:

New permanent or temporary footway, or widening of existing footways

Complementary measures (as part of a wider scheme):

Provision of secure cycle parking facilities
Restriction or reduction of parking availability
Area-wide interventions (pedestrian and cycling zones, school streets; and other initiatives to support cycling and walking to schools)
Park and cycle/stride/scooter facilities, and support for e-scooter trials
Selective road closures using planters, cones or similar
Provision for monitoring and evaluation of schemes

The DfT invited applications for Phase 2 on 10 July with a deadline for submissions by 7 August. They awarded funding in November 2020.

In May 2022 we were subsequently awarded further funding under Phase 3 of the Active Travel Fund