Manchester City Council was successful in a bid to the Governments Active Travel fund for £1.5m to improve links between Wythenshawe town centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, the city centre. We very much welcome the intention to improve active travel links.

We are also very appreciative of the significant activities of a number of local residents over recent times to rediscover and bring back into use green routes and path ways – creating a new Wythenshawe Greenway. We have made a submission to the consultation on the plans.

In one of the on-line consultation meetings, we were told that one of the criteria for funding for Active Travel Schemes was that they should be transformational. In our submission we refer to the excellent work done by local volunteers to rediscover routes and pathways that have become known as the Wythenshawe Greenway and of the previous investments made by the City Council in the Black Path. We strongly believe that to be truly transformational the new investment should be linked to and build on the Greenway and previous investments.

We would very much like to work with the City Council and local partners in the next stages of the schemes development to help to address the travel and local access issues for residents and commuters.

For the full submission, click here.