Connect2 Sustrans

Connect2 Helping to develop Chester's Greenways

The national sustainable transport charity, Sustrans, has made a successful bid to the Lottery's Living Landmarks - People's Millions programme for a project called Connect2.

Lottery Success for Chester

Connect2 gained 42% of a national vote to win £50m to invest in 79 walking and cycling projects across the UK.

Chester's share of this is £1.25m, which will go towards the development of four key schemes that will help to cross missing links in the green network. Chester City Council and Cheshire County Council will be working together to deliver the 5 year programme starting in 2008.

The Projects

Handbridge to Huntington - Bridge and Cycle Route

A bridge has been an aspiration for many years; it appeared in the 1994 Chester Waterways Study and more recently in Project Chester. It would provide significant benefits to the City's transport links by creating an alternative, traffic free route.

This is how a new bridge might look.

Improvements to Curzon Park/Roodee Foot Bridge

This bridge is open to walkers but it is not easy to take a bicycle across. Improvements would allow much better cycle access to the city and the riverside path for the residents of Curzon Park, Lache and Westminster Park.

Guilden Sutton & Mickle Trafford Greenway extension

The extension of the Sustrans Millennium route out to Guilden Sutton and Mickle Trafford will create a safe, traffic free route into the city and link into the growing greenway network.

River, Canal and Greenway link

This provides a multi-user cycle way and footpath between the Sustrans route on the old railway line and the new cycle route along the banks of the River Dee.

If you would like to find out more about Sustrans and Connect2 please visit their website http://www.sustransconnect2.org.uk/ (external link)where you can also register your views.

For more information about Greenways in Chester or if you would like to tell us what you think about the project please contact Mike O'Kell, Countryside Manager, details below.

Contact Details

Countryside Service

Email - countryside@chester.gov.uk

Opening hours - 8.45am - 4.45pm

Phone number - 01244 402397

Fax - 01244 310071

Address - Countryside Service, Green Space Team, Culture & Community Directorate, Chester City Council, The Forum, Chester, CH1 2HS