Active travel schemes

Active Travel England 

Active Travel England (ATE) has been established as an executive agency of the Department for Transport (DfT).  

It has the overall objective to enable achievement of the vision set out in the Prime Minister’s long-term walking and cycling plan, ‘Gear Change’ for half of all journeys in towns and cities to be cycled and walked by 2030, transforming the role that walking and cycling play in England’s transport system, and making England a great walking and cycling nation.  

Active Travel England’s strategic aims are to increase levels of walking and cycling to 50 per cent of journeys in towns and cities by 2030 by: 

• Creating better streets and networks for cycling and walking that are built to the ‘key design principles’ as set out in Gear Change and Local Transport Note 1/20  

• Putting walking and cycling at the heart of transport, place-making, and health policy so travelling without a car is easy and accessible utilising a long-term walking and cycling programme and budget  

• Empowering and encouraging local authorities who manage their roads to incorporate active travel improvements into all aspects of their functions. This includes access to new powers to manage the highway effectively for active travel and training on all aspects of active travel best practice  

• Enabling people to cycle and protecting them when they do by reducing road danger through the creation of safe infrastructure based on the key design principles and working with the department and relevant bodies to ensure that the rules of the road work to protect people travelling actively 
   

Staffordshire 

Staffordshire County Council has been awarded funding by the Department of Transport as part of the government’s Active Travel Fund Tranche 2 in order to help deliver Staffordshire's Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP). This supports the creation of long-term projects which aim to enable people to cycle, walk and wheel more safely around neighbourhoods and town centres. 

The designs of the improvement schemes prioritise these healthier, more sustainable forms of travel, allowing people to access local services more easily and better enjoy the spaces around them, as well as encouraging people to maintain smarter, healthier travel habits over the long term. 

The four active travel schemes currently being developed are based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford, Cannock and Burton. To find out more about each of these schemes, click on the boxes below. 

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• tinymcefixCannock
• tinymcefixBurton