BCP Council undertook ecological and arboriculture consultation prior to the works. No significant flora, fauna or tree issues were identified. Temporary fencing will be installed to protect tree roots during construction. There has been routine vegetation clearance along the verges and the area will be fully restored once the works complete. The new cycleway on Whitelegg Way provides a safe, direct route separated from traffic and will eventually form part of a 13km sustainable travel route between Merley and Christchurch. The benefits of sustainable travel are well proven. It’s our ambition to transform local travel and give people eco-friendly, healthy options to get out and about without having to rely on their car.
£2.864million via the Pothole and Challenge Fund
£3.725m via the annual Highways Maintenance Block allocation and
£4.184m of Dept for Transport (DfT) Challenge Funding for highway improvements. This amounts to £10.773m. Can anyone tell us why we are continually compelled to put up with an ever-increasing number of huge potholes in our towns, when the BCP Council have been allocated these huge amounts of money? During these lockdowns, when traffic was a lot lighter, the council should have been getting on with repairing them, or even better resurfacing the roads, most of which are simply not fit for purpose! In Northbourne there are so many potholes on Wimborne Road that they will now need to totally resurface it from where the Tesco road renovations ended years ago (at the Broadway) to the road parallel to Whitelegg Way up to the traffic lights.
Work on Transforming Cities Fund’s first sustainable travel routes in the BCP area will start at the end of May. There will be a new cycle route along Whitelegg Way and cycle and walking improvements in Bournemouth s Upper Gardens. In total, four cycle routes will be created through the, mostly government-funded, project alongside two “sustainable travel corridors”. Its aim is to encourage more people to use transport methods other than cars. The routes are:
Bournemouth town centre to/from Ferndown
Poole town centre to/from Wareham Road and Holton Heath
Poole town centre to/from Merley, Poole
Poole town centre to/from Ferndown and Wimborne