Active Travel Fund - A6191 Chesterfield Rd South, Mansfield

Overview

The Active Travel Fund (ATF) has been created by the Department for Transport (DfT) to fund active travel schemes that help deliver government’s plans to boost greener, active transport and to make walking and cycling safer during the pandemic. The purpose of the fund is to implement interventions that encourage more cycling and walking with a view to embedding cycling and walking as part of long-term travel habits. Schemes funded by the ATF will support social distancing in the short-term and offer significant long-term health, environmental and congestion benefits.

Nottinghamshire County Council has been successful in securing funding for several potential cycle and footway improvement schemes across the county and to implement behavioural change measures within these local areas.  The next stage is to carry out a public consultation for each proposed scheme and your views and comments are welcome.

All of the proposed schemes complement the work that the Council already undertakes to help deliver national and local aims to improve the economy, environment, health and wellbeing, and create thriving communities. The schemes being consulted on therefore ties-in to current programmes the Council delivers to help reduce the impacts of journey time delay and harmful emissions, make our networks safer, and help people access local jobs, training, shops, services and leisure opportunities.

The proposed scheme in Mansfield will upgrade part of an existing cycle route on both sides of the A6191 Chesterfield Road South into a permanent segregated footway/cycleway. The route improvements will extend from its junction with Rosemary Street to the junction with the A6075 Debdale Lane / Abbott Road. The proposed scheme will improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians using this key route, which links existing employment sites and residential conurbations to the town centre.

The consultation for the proposed ATF Tranche 2 scheme on A6191 Chesterfield Road South, Mansfield closed on Sunday 7th March 2021. The consultation plan can be viewed at the bottom of this webpage (within the ‘related’ section).

Further details of all the Active Travel Fund proposed schemes in Nottinghamshire and the Active Travel Fund Consultation Plan can be found here: Nottinghamshire Active Travel Fund.

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What happens next

Thank you for submitting your comments via the consultation. Once reviewed, all comments will be published on this webpage.

We are currently reviewing all comments. Further design work will be undertaken to determine if any local concerns can be accommodated for in a revised scheme design. Should a suitable scheme be identified, a further round of consultation will be undertaken to determine if the revised scheme should be constructed.  

For further information on the consultation timeline visit Nottinghamshire County Councils Active Travel Fund Consultation Plan at www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/transport/active-travel-fund/active-travel-fund-consultation-plan.