The most recent funding awards for Places for Everyone projects in the 2023-2024 financial year at Developed and Technical Design (Stages 3-4) and Construction (Stages 5-7) have now been announced.
Project applications in these stages were presented to the Decision Making Panel in May 2023, with awards for successful projects being made in July 2023.
Design – what has been awarded?
Details about successful projects progressing to the Developed and Technical Design stages can be found below.
Cadder Woods Connections: £49,470
The establishment of all-abilities, all year-round routes and connected greenspace through Cadder Woods in the north of Glasgow.
Connecting Pollokshaws – Liveable Neighbourhoods: £91,800
Glasgow City Council continue the work of community organisation, Wheatley Group, to deliver on the four themes of the Liveable Neighbourhoods programme: active travel, streets for people, everyday journeys, and local town centres. The addition of a protected cycleway, open and lit pedestrian routes, vehicle road closure at Christian Street alongside traffic-calming and controlled crossings, will create safer spaces for people to make everyday journeys via walking, wheeling and cycling. The project will also investigate additional access to the city network with eastern connections.
Cultins Road Cycleway: £32,928
Cultins Road path is a QuietRoute link NCN 754 and QuietRoute 8. This link connects the Union Canal and Edinburgh’s largest business district, Edinburgh Park and involves a series of design improvements, including shared use footways, crossings, footway widening, and integrating cycles with the Edinburgh Park Tram stop.
Powderhall phase 2 Former Waste Transfer Station – East West link: £10,153
This project seeks to create an East/West link as part of the Powderhall housing development, in order to promote active travel for pedestrians, cyclists and other wheelers. The link passes through the site and will connect to existing active travel infrastructure proposed for improvement and new proposed active travel routes.
Rebalancing Smokey Brae: £125,000
This project seeks to rebalance, reprioritise and deliver major improvements to the Smokey Bray area for the benefit of people. The design proposes the removal of the Marionville Roundabout which will be replaced with a T-junction and reallocate road space to prioritise active travel.
Construction – what has been awarded?
Details about successful projects progressing to the Construction stages can be found below.
Leith Connections Phase 1a: £3,683,000
Pedestrian improvements, segregated cycle track with protected junctions and improved public realm and placemaking along a west-east corridor through Leith. Phase 3 of the Leith Connections project.
Leven Active Travel Network: £1,734,797
Connecting People and Place is an ambitious multi partnership project that is developing multiple path networks in the Levenmouth area of Fife that will connect to a newly restored exemplar green corridor along the River Leven, unlocking multiple environmental, social and economic benefits.
Levenmouth Connectivity Project River Park Routes: £2,669,333
Connecting People and Place is an ambitious multi partnership project that is developing multiple path networks in the Levenmouth area of Fife that will connect to a newly restored exemplar green corridor along the River Leven, unlocking multiple environmental, social and economic benefits.
Western Villages: £984,900
Provision of cycle provision on sections of Marine Drive and West Shore Road in the former industrial area of Edinburgh called Granton Waterfront where there are currently no bus route services. The project blueprint will build with nature, providing the flexibility to meet the changing environment and communities in which it will serve.
What does this mean?
Backed by the Scottish Government, Places for Everyone aims to create safer, more attractive, healthier, and inclusive places by increasing and diversifying the number of trips made by walking, wheeling, and cycling for everyday journeys.
Developed and Technical Design builds on early proposals from Concept (Stages 1-2) to help establish project designs which are shaped by local communities and key stakeholders that are construction ready.
Places for Everyone provides 100% of the funding for all designs and other pre-construction activity.
Construction (Stages 5-7) completes the Places for Everyone process by physically delivering the infrastructure on the ground.
Places for Everyone provides 70% of the funding for construction.
More information on the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Plan of Work stages, as described above, can be found here.
Decision Making Panels comprise of both senior members of the Sustrans infrastructure delivery teams as well as key external representatives.
More information on Decision Making Panels and the application process can be accessed here.
Please note that final financial awards are subject to change in year due to delivery constraints.