Church Road Active Travel Scheme, Caldicot

Client: Monmouthshire County Council

Partners: Roberts Limbrick

Place: Caldicot, Monmouthshire

The community need

Caldicot town's active travel scheme aims to create an integrated network of routes with dedicated walking, cycling, and shared-use facilities, as well as traffic calming and improved footways. The project is also linked to green infrastructure, well-being activities, destination management and local economic development actions.

What I did

I've been supporting Monmouthshire County Council with its active travel projects, including the wider Caldicot Town Centre Regeneration Strategy and Action Plan:

• I helped project manage the concept design for Church Road, the application to the Welsh Government for active travel funding and the Transforming Towns Green Infrastructure grant.

• I worked with the council on other parts of the Active Travel Network, including the schematic design for the shared route through the Country Park, linking into the Greenway route.

• I worked on the active travel connection through the town centre to Newport Road (west) and other phases, concentrating on Station Road and the final link to Severn Tunnel Junction.

• I provided strategic project management, carried out consultations and prepared business and funding plans.

The outcome

The first phase of the project, a civilised street scheme, was completed in the summer of 2021. It focused on physical improvements to Church Road at the junction with Cross Close, a safer pedestrian environment outside the local primary school and a safer crossing at the corner and junction with the castle and country park.

The final phase of the works finished in the summer of 2023. It saw the remainder of the road completed with build-outs, pedestrian priority crossing points and improved links into the country park.