Active Travel Fund
Active Travel England is the government's executive agency responsible for making walking, wheeling and cycling the preferred choice for everyone to get around in England.
Active travel makes people happier and healthier, which is why Active Travel England wants to increase the number of local journeys being walked, wheeled or cycled by 2030 and make active travel part of everyday life.
The Active Travel Fund supports local authorities with grant funding for the development and/or construction of inclusive walking, wheeling and cycling schemes.
Since the fund started in 2020 we have been allocated over £22 million for capital schemes which support these objectives, with many projects successfully delivered and further schemes in various stages of development.
The above figure includes a confirmed £3.05 million per year allocation up to 28/29 and forms part of the Governments £2 billion commitment set out in Gear Change to deliver a step change in the provision of active travel and better streets for walking, wheeling and cycling.
All schemes put forward must be aligned with local cycling and walking infrastructure plans (LCWIP) and developed/approved in consultation with Active Travel England but certainty over future funding gives us far greater flexibility over our delivery programme.
Each scheme will be subject to public consultation and will be fully integrated with wider transport initiatives such as Transport for Norwich.
Read on for details of the schemes currently being developed under the latest funding rounds and all those delivered to date.
Phase 5
- Attleborough, Queens Road - pedestrian crossing
- Coltishall, High Street - pedestrian crossing
- Gorleston, Marine Parade - pedestrian refuge
- Wymondham, Robert Kett Primary - 'School Street' signing
Phase 6
- Brooke B1332 - pedestrian crossing
- Outwell A1101 and A1122 - pedestrian crossing
- Hethersett, Colney Lane (ATE contribution) - shared use cycle way
- Fakenham, Greenway Lane - pedestrian crossing
- Filby A1064 - pedestrian crossing
- Aylsham, Burgh Road - pedestrian crossing
- Thetford A1066 Mundford Rd/ Croxton Rd - pedestrian Crossing
Schemes delivered to date include:
- King's Lynn A148 Gaywood Road - new segregated crossing
- King's Lynn town centre - cycle parking
- Heartsease Lane, Norwich - new segregated crossing
- St Williams Way, Thorpe St Andrew - new crossing and mandatory cycle lanes
- Great Yarmouth - new cycle parking
- County Wide Market Town - new cycle parking
- Ipswich Road - cycle lanes and pedestrian crossing
- Dereham, Quebec Road - pedestrian crossing
- Fleggburgh, Main Road - pedestrian crossing
- Brundall, The Street - pedestrian crossing
- Hethersett, Back Lane - pedestrian crossing
- Kings Lynn, Edward Benefer Way - segregated toucan crossing
- Bawsey B1145 - shared use facilities
- Bradwell A143 - pedestrian crossing
- Gorleston, Church Lane - new crossings and shared use facilities
