Active Travel Infrastructure Plan - AT Forum

Background

In 2017 the Government published its first Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy. The Strategy sets out the Government’s ambition to make walking and cycling the natural choices for shorter journeys or as part of a longer journey.

Our recently adopted Places for People Strategy acknowledges that by providing the active travel infrastructure for those who wish to walk, wheel or cycle has multiple benefits for the community and all road users. The strategy sets out a vision as to how active travel can support the Council to create places where people and communities flourish. By placing active travel users at the top of our road user hierarchy, in line with the updated highway code, there is the opportunity to transform how people experience local areas.

The strategy will be delivered through the development of an Active Travel Infrastructure Plan (ATIP) for the borough. ATIP will show where infrastructure is needed, what type of infrastructure and priorities for delivering it. The ATIP will include and support the wider city region LCWIP network.

The ATIP will be a flexible, evolving document that responds to changes in policy, opportunities and demand. Together, the Places for People Strategy and ATIP will provide the framework for investment decisions.

Active Travel Forum’s role

We need your assistance to help us identify a potential active travel network across the whole borough, which will focus on connections between strategic destinations. This strategic network will focus on providing a comprehensive cycling network, as well as identify improvements to walking and wheeling infrastructure.

Following feedback from this forum, a wider public and stakeholder consultation will take place.

The network will be developed based on desire lines, the desire lines will connect key destination points, for example employments sites or further education sites, within the borough with origin points, for example residential areas.

Providing Feedback

Using the mapping tool provided below, we would like your ideas and suggestions on what the ATIP network should look like. There are some key points to note as follows:

  • The network will need to include existing routes (but please let us know where these links need upgrading);
  • The network will need to include routes that we are currently working to deliver.
  • The ATIP network will need to be prioritised to help us deliver the key sections first, growing the network in the most effective way.

Any suggestions not suitable to be submitted on the map can be emailed to ATIP@wirral.gov.uk

The team preparing the ATIP will be using a range of information to help develop the plan, your input, local knowledge and experience is a key part of this process. Please note that the ATIP will be a borough wide network, so the focus is on connecting the main residential areas with key destinations. This means the ATIP is not intended to cover all roads/streets. Further work on detailed, local networks can be carried out in the future.

To participate in this engagement, you will be required to sign in. If you do not have an account, please sign up here.

Please be aware that other participants will be able to see your contributions and your username.

The AT Infrastructure Plan Map is now closed for submissions.

Background

In 2017 the Government published its first Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy. The Strategy sets out the Government’s ambition to make walking and cycling the natural choices for shorter journeys or as part of a longer journey.

Our recently adopted Places for People Strategy acknowledges that by providing the active travel infrastructure for those who wish to walk, wheel or cycle has multiple benefits for the community and all road users. The strategy sets out a vision as to how active travel can support the Council to create places where people and communities flourish. By placing active travel users at the top of our road user hierarchy, in line with the updated highway code, there is the opportunity to transform how people experience local areas.

The strategy will be delivered through the development of an Active Travel Infrastructure Plan (ATIP) for the borough. ATIP will show where infrastructure is needed, what type of infrastructure and priorities for delivering it. The ATIP will include and support the wider city region LCWIP network.

The ATIP will be a flexible, evolving document that responds to changes in policy, opportunities and demand. Together, the Places for People Strategy and ATIP will provide the framework for investment decisions.

Active Travel Forum’s role

We need your assistance to help us identify a potential active travel network across the whole borough, which will focus on connections between strategic destinations. This strategic network will focus on providing a comprehensive cycling network, as well as identify improvements to walking and wheeling infrastructure.

Following feedback from this forum, a wider public and stakeholder consultation will take place.

The network will be developed based on desire lines, the desire lines will connect key destination points, for example employments sites or further education sites, within the borough with origin points, for example residential areas.

Providing Feedback

Using the mapping tool provided below, we would like your ideas and suggestions on what the ATIP network should look like. There are some key points to note as follows:

  • The network will need to include existing routes (but please let us know where these links need upgrading);
  • The network will need to include routes that we are currently working to deliver.
  • The ATIP network will need to be prioritised to help us deliver the key sections first, growing the network in the most effective way.

Any suggestions not suitable to be submitted on the map can be emailed to ATIP@wirral.gov.uk

The team preparing the ATIP will be using a range of information to help develop the plan, your input, local knowledge and experience is a key part of this process. Please note that the ATIP will be a borough wide network, so the focus is on connecting the main residential areas with key destinations. This means the ATIP is not intended to cover all roads/streets. Further work on detailed, local networks can be carried out in the future.

To participate in this engagement, you will be required to sign in. If you do not have an account, please sign up here.

Please be aware that other participants will be able to see your contributions and your username.

The AT Infrastructure Plan Map is now closed for submissions.

Page last updated: 23 Apr 2024, 09:53 AM