Greenway Development in DCSDC Jonathan Henderson, NW Greenways Programme Manager Mike Savage, Greenways Development Officer Greenways are:

• Shared use or segregated paths for walking and cycling • Strictly applied to off-road routes, often through green corridors • May also be applied to shared use paths beside roads which provide many of same functions • Greenways are one component of our Walking and Cycling Network Strategic Framework for Greenways

• North West Greenway Plan • NI Greenways Strategy Walking and Cycling Network • Developed by former DCC Access Forum/ Active and Sustainable Travel Forum/ Green Infrastructure Stakeholder Group • Former DCC started developing Greenways 20+ years ago: • Prehen Greenway 1999 • Foyle Valley Greenway 2000 • Crescent Link 2004 • Waterside Greenway 2013 • Queen’s Quay 2013 • Since 2014 (DCSDC): • Waterside Greenway Phase 3 (c.5km) • Clooney Greenway (c. 1km) • Kilfennan Valley Park Greenway (c. 2.5km) • Ebrington Greenway (c. 400m) • St Columb’s Park Avenue (c. 350m) • (c.1.4km) • Castlederg greenway (c. 1.1km) • Strabane greenway (c.3.7km) • Culmore greenway (c. 2.5km/10km) • Total= 18km Completed greenways Active projects

• NW Greenways- -Strabane, -Muff (incl. Bay Rd Bridge) and Derry-Buncrana • Strathfoyle Greenway and Strathfoyle-Maydown link • Strabane North Greenway • Castlederg greenway extension External funding for Greenways

• Department for Infrastructure Green Blue Infrastructure Fund • Priority for NI Greenways Strategy routes • Focussed on modal shift (i.e away from car use) - therefore needs to be near significant population centres

• DAERA Tackling Rural Isolation and Poverty – focus on Community Trails

• SEUPB - INTERREG VA (NW Greenways) & PEACE IV (Castlederg)

• Upcoming- PEACE + Forward Strategy

• Projects can be – Aspirational, Potential, Development, Implementation, Completed • Currently 70+ Aspirational/Potential projects • Projects have been provisionally scored on basis of Importance and Deliverability • Importance – impact on use and connectivity if implemented • Deliverability – number of landowners/agencies involved, engineering issues, regulation issues (eg flood risk, habitats regulations) • Importance of DfI taking forward some of these • With limited resources, need to focus on projects of highest priority Area-specific meetings

• Propose holding DEA-specific meetings with Members to look at forward plans Jonathan Henderson, NW Greenways’ Programme Manager [email protected] Mike Savage, Greenways’ Development Officer [email protected]