Appendix A Review of Cycling Infrastructure for Bath & North East Somerset Council This is the complete list of schemes that were investigated in detailed for consideration in this report. Schemes highlighted yellow are classed as 'top priority' for funding. Schemes marked blue are classed as 'quick wins'. Each scheme has been explained with brief notes following a desktop study and site visit. A score has also been attributed to each route to inform a priority for delivery. Should link be ref name of link Status location Estimated Cost included? Conditions? Main aim? proposed interventions? impressions? strengths? challenges? dependencies? Five Arches Greenway Radstock/ Link Radstock Town Centre via NR Greenway and 1 to College Quick win Midsomer Norton £0-100,000 Yes Five Arches Greenway to Norton Radstock College. Signing only. Potentially useful. Easy access to college. Crossing of Wells Road. Cobblers Way Link to Westfield Industrial Radstock/ A short traffic free link direct to Westfield Industrial Part delivered by developer. Needs new bridge over stream Need to clarify ownership of 2 Estate Midsomer Norton £0-100,000 Yes Estate. and new section of traffic free path to Fourth Avenue. Useful high quality link. Directness. Traffic free. land. The Wells Road is very heavily trafficked and used by a high number of HGVs making local deliveries and passing through the town. Although an important arterial route, Wells Road is not suitable for cycling and a serious disincentive to cycling. The roads west of Wells Road are however good quiet residential streets ideal for cycling. The route seeks to create a 1. Securing land from college parallel route to Wells Road, exploiting the quiet roads 1. Land purchase. 2. Ensuring development deliveries links and one private owner. 2. College to Westfield Radstock/ and creating new links through on-going development and sections. 3. New construction. 4. On footway shared Important link to work and school Serves large area of housing with links to Securing developer 3 Industrial Estate Midsomer Norton £0-100,000 Yes to make a continuous route. use section. and leisure. important destinations. contribution to links. The route follows the Norton Radstock Greenway an existing traffic free route. It acts as an east/west spine Usage is suppressed by lack of Good quality existing route. Which can be Radstock to Thicket Radstock/ and could be improved by better access to adjacent 1. Surfacing of compacted stone section. 2. Links to opportunity to link to other routes improved at relatively modest costs. Developer 4 Mead Priority Midsomer Norton £100,000-200,000 Yes locations and an improved surface. adjacent locations - see complementary route reports. and locations. contributions are likely. Land agreements are at Radstock/ Easy link to Five Arches & town centre via Pit Road. Widen path and build new path over green to Shakespeare Useful local link and part of longer advanced stage. Planning 5 Five Arches Link Quick win Midsomer Norton £0-100,000 Yes Popular walking route. Road. strategic route across town. Easy to deliver. permission granted. None. The route gives access to Midsomer Norton centre Offers quality route to town centre. Waterside Westfield Radstock/ from Waterside including improved crossing of the Raised zebra crossing, footway widening, new path across Links to college to Westfield Potentially simple to deliver. Not necessarily Footway widening on Wells Five Arches to 6 Link Priority Midsomer Norton £0-100,000 Yes Wells Road. green. industrial estate route. costly. Innovative use of cycle zebra. Road. Shakespeare Road Link. An excellent link has been built to Radstock/ To connect Westfield to Town Centre/Five Arches Footway widening Wells Road to help crossing. New the new development and could Agreement with Sun College to Westfield 7 Norton Hill Link Midsomer Norton £0-100,000 Yes Greenway, avoiding use of Wells Road. access from Old Pit Road. have wider access. Direct route. Chemicals and developer. industrial estate Link Options for crossing town between Westfield and Greenhill are limited by the one way system on High Two way cycling on High Street and the heavily trafficked local roads. This link Cycle two way on High Street; removal of bollards/widening This appears to overcome a Street for full length Midsomer Norton cross Radstock/ cuts across on quiet roads and upgraded traffic free footway; raised table North Road; footpath upgrade; new significant obstacle to local Two way cycling on High could potentially be 8 town link Priority Midsomer Norton £200,000+ Yes paths as a direct route between two greenways. bridge; path construction and widening. journeys. Directness, utility, access by large population. Street. necessary. The scheme will transform the Improves existing route and creates high quality Completely new construction of the Radstock Station site town centre and is potentially very Radstock Centre to Radstock/ access for walking and cycling between the popular will enable this route. The town centre will be within 20mph high quality with major benefits for Development has 9 Colliers Way Frome Midsomer Norton £200,000+ Yes Colliers Way and the town centre. limit. walking and cycling Delivered by developers. controversial aspects. To create a widening footway 3m wide outside the Waldegrave Arms the A high quality link would existing footway must be incorporate the four interventions widened by one metre. The listed and make a significant right filter turn to Bath Old contribution to the quality of this Road would have to be 1. News shared use footway outside the Waldegrave Arms. part of the town centre. A Coombe End and Fosse Way offer an easily narrowed. Alternatively Clandown is a significant residential are elevated 2. Traffic calming and enhanced public realm at foot of satisfactory link could be made if graded climb from the centre to Clandown. The permission to intrude into the Town Centre to Radstock/ above the town centre. The link connects Clandown to Bath New Road. 3. Improved crossing of Bath New Road. only interventions 1, 3 and 4 were road is lightly trafficked and also serves a number pub forecourt could be 10 Clandown Midsomer Norton £100,000 - 200,000 Yes the town centre and links to existing cycle network. 4. Signing. completed. of small employment sites. sought. Distance is small - c. 1 mile. More likely to walk this distance. Maybe Chew Stoke to Chew Chew Stoke and Chew Magna and Chew Valley 1. Off highway traffic free cycle path between villages and be better value from Bishop 11 Magna Priority Chew Valley £200,000+ Yes As part of longer route Schools with a high quality traffic free path. through school 2. 20mph Chew Magna and Chew Stoke. Sutton/Chew Stoke/School. Low cost; local link to school. Land assembly. Support of school. The principle disincentive to cycling to Tyning is the steep climb, culminating at the Trinity Academy. The only practical measures that could encourage cycling by improving condition on the most difficult section of road is A route to connect the town centre, with its cycle links an uphill cycle lane on Woodborough Lane. However the Town Centre to Trinity Radstock/ to North Radstock greenway and Colliers Way, to carriageway is too narrow to accommodate this It would be difficult to implement a The steep climb will discourage most potential 12 Academy, Tyning Midsomer Norton £0-100,000 No Trinity Academy and residential area of Tyning. satisfactorily. high quality route. cyclists whatever measures are introduced. Could generate car journeys. Environmental impacts - lake Large proportion of traffic free within exceptional is a Ramsar site. Land Chew Valley Lake This is exclusively a leisure ride but could also link Significant support from Bristol Water as owner of the lake Potentially high quality and an environment. Parts of route on quiet lanes. assembly - not all land is in 13 Circuit Priority Chew Valley £200,000+ Yes communities around the lake with spur routes. and surrounding land. New construction. attraction for visitors Tourism to benefit of local economy. control of Bristol Water. 1. Allow two way cycling on lane to B3. 2. Traffic free path through B as site is open 24/7 (planning consent granted) Bristol water land agreement 3. Speed reduction on Valley Road, plus cycling lane? 4. and participation. Crossing Chew Stoke to Bishop With southern section of Chew 20mph Chew Stoke. 5. 20 mph in Bishop Sutton/traffic A368 Bishop Sutton - Only works as link to 14 Sutton Priority Chew Valley £100,000-200,000 Yes Stoke - Chew Magna School journey calming? Potential high quality Low cost. Very attractive section by Lake. speed/volume of traffic. school and Chew Lake. Leisure route. Potential high use as mixed on/off road Bishop Sutton to route through very attractive Cam Valley linking Potentially good tourist route 15 Midford Chew Valley Yes attractions, Tow Tunnels and Chew Lake. Considerable off - highway construction. Land assembly. linking to 2 Tunnels. Tourist. Could be circulate rides. Link to NCN. Land. Road crossings. Very difficult to achieve in places within existing highway boundary particularly outside Buro Happold. Space Churchill Bridge gyratory, available from west of Oak Street. To create segregated western riverside facility up to the Pine Way Gyratory. Signal changes Potential to be a high value link, development, enterprise required at Pines Way and narrow lanes to provide facility but needs a long term vision for area. Also dependent Key western connection along south side of river on northern side of A36. Windsor Bridge junction recently developing the strategic on acquisition of rapid corridor. Makes connections into primary development completed with no cycle facilities. Link from Pine Way to connections. Many elements will transit corridor - sites in enterprise are and links student population Windsor Bridge best achieved through Bath Weston rely on developments and strategic opportunity to acquire with university and the city centre.