Constructed Active Travel Fund Schemes
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About the Active Travel Fund
The government’s Active Travel Fund has been set up to support the Gear Change strategy and to provide funding to support local authorities in implementing measures which will benefit walking and wheeling. Since its introduction in 2020 the County Council has delivered the following schemes.
Tranche 4 extension
In March 2024 we secured £370,438 to install pedestrian crossing facilities from the Tranche 4 extension fund, the following schemes and have been delivered:
- A60 Babbage Way, Worksop - Pedestrians crossing facilities were installed at the existing traffic lights, work was completed in September 2024.
- Beckside, Edwalton - A new toucan crossing was installed in October 2025.
- Leverton Road, Retford - A new toucan crossing with associated footway improvements was completed in April 2025.
Tranche 3
In March 2022, the Government announced that we had secured £4.6m from Tranche 3 of the Government’s Active Travel Fund. In May 2024 a protected one-way cycle track on both the north and the south side of Derby Road, between Cauldwell Road and the A60 Nottingham Road was opened to the public.
The scheme included improvements to the A60 Nottingham Road/Derby Road junction for cyclist and pedestrians in the form of a parallel crossing on Derby Road, and the existing crossings on the north and south of the A60 Nottingham Road were upgraded to Toucan crossings. The Derby Road/Cauldwell Road junction was upgraded to provide crossing facilities.
Tranche 2
In November 2020, the Government announced that we had secured £2.18m from Tranche 2 of the Government’s Active Travel Fund. The following schemes were delivered:
- High Pavement, Sutton in Ashfield – The new two-way cycle route was opened to the public in May 2022. The new cycle facility comprises of a two-way cycle route on the south side of High Pavement, between Station Road and Silk Street and a shared use footway/cycleway on the north side of High Pavement, between Langton Road and Mill Street. An existing crossing, which links the north and south sections of the facility has been upgraded to accommodate cyclists. The signal-controlled junction of High Pavement with Station Road was upgraded to include a toucan crossing on High Pavement.
- Regatta Way, West Bridgford – The upgraded cycle facility was opened to the public in summer 2022. Regatta Way had a shared use footway cycleway on one-side and on the opposite side sections of verge and a section of footway towards the southern end on the approach to Radcliffe Road. The route now has a fully segregated, high quality, two-way cycleway on the west side, between its junction with the A6011 Radcliffe Road and just 50m north of its junction Adbolton Lane to connect to National Cycle Network route 15. In addition to the cycle scheme, new street lighting was installed along the route and the road was resurfaced.
Tranche 1
As part of its Covid-19 response in May 2020, the Government announced a £250m Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) to deliver quick emergency interventions to make cycling and walking safer. The Department for Transport (DfT) allocated £263,250 towards our Emergency Active Travel Fund (Tranche 1) proposals.
