Newcastle's Cycle City Ambition

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1 Newcastle Fit for Cycling Cycle City Ambition bid April 2013
2 Newcastle Fit for Cycling Cycle City Ambition bid April 2013
Councillor Joyce McCarty
Deputy Leader of the Council
Labour, Wingrove Ward

166 Wingrove Road

Fenham

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE4 9BX

Leader’s Office, Civic Centre
Cycle City bids (Wave 1 and 2)
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 2BN
Department for Transport
Phone: [phone]
2/16 Great Minster House
Fax: [phone]
33 Horseferry Road
[email protected]
London
www.newcastle.gov.uk
SW1P 4DR

Date: 25th April 2013

Dear Sir/Madam

Reference: Newcastle’s Cycle City Ambition Fund bid

Please find enclosed Newcastle City Council’s Cycle City Ambition Fund bid, entitled ‘Newcastle Fit for Cycling’.
Our bid has been prepared in partnership and we are delighted to include letters of support from a broad range of
stakeholders.

Newcastle is a city that fundamentally wants to change how its people travel. Our commitment to cycling is not just
for today or this week but for the longer term. We will make every effort to use our own funds and source other
funding to continue to invest in cycling.

Within ten years, Newcastle will:

 Have made significant progress towards achieving European levels of cycling
 Be a safer, more attractive place to move through and live in
 Be healthier, more prosperous and sustainable

We are ambitious. Our vision is to achieve a 12% cycle mode share for trips under 5 miles. The first two years will
set the direction for this transformational long-term cycling strategy.

The ‘Newcastle Fit for Cycling’ programme is holistic. We have combined the development of a strategic cycling
network, supporting city centre regeneration, housing growth and access to employment, training and services
across the City Deal area, with a complementary package of measures to encourage and enable more cycling in the
city.

Our programme will increase cycling trips by 73% (1,232,177 additional cycling trips are forecast) and will achieve a
maximum BCR of 8:1, representing excellent value for money for the DfT.

We look forward to working with our partners to make Newcastle a city that is ‘Fit for Cycling’.

Yours sincerely

Councillor Joyce McCarty
Wingrove Ward Councillor and
Deputy Leader of Newcastle City Council

This matter is being dealt with by Gary MacDonald 0191 277 8971 [email protected]
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Foreword Applicant information
Newcastle is a city that Local authority name:
fundamentally wants to change
how its people travel. Newcastle City Council

At a time when the UK economy
faces low growth and uncertain
prospects, Newcastle has
ambitious plans.

Bid Manager name and position:
Over the next 10 years, city centre regeneration and
housing development will re-ignite investment, and job
Gary MacDonald, Transport Policy Manager
creation will reconnect local residents with their city
through transformational public realm projects.
Telephone: [phone]

We are committed to ensuring that this economic Email address: [email protected]
expansion of our city is sustainable.
Postal address: Civic Centre, Barras Bridge

Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8QH
Our plans are underpinned by the need to make a step
change in transport connectivity, relieve congestion on Website address for published bid:
city centre roads, improve journey time reliability, www.newcastle.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-
minimise the environmental impact of car use and transport/cycling/cycle-city-ambition
improve health and well-being.

Cycling levels in the North East are among the lowest
SECTION A - Project description
in the UK with 8% of people currently cycling once a
week (against a national average of 10%), yet the
and funding profile
majority of journeys are under five miles. That is why
we have developed and are investing in the delivery of
our cycling strategy. A1. Project name: Newcastle Fit for Cycling
That strategy and this bid build upon strong
A2. Headline description:
foundations. We are already a leader in delivering
better neighbourhoods through our extensive 20 mph
This programme will build a strategic cycling
schemes. We are incorporating our new public health
network, supporting city centre regeneration,
duty into our work. We are also building on our values
housing growth and access to employment,
as a council. We want Newcastle to:
training and services across the City Deal area.
 Be a working city creating good quality jobs,
Within ten years, Newcastle will:
helping local people develop the skills to do
them and giving them the means to get to them  Have made significant progress towards
safely and sustainably achieving European levels of cycling

 Create decent neighbourhoods by working with
 Be a safer, more attractive place to move
local communities to look after each other
through and live in
through ‘friendly streets’ projects and other
measures  Be healthier, more prosperous and sustainable

 Tackle the discrimination and inequalities which
The first two years will set the direction for this
prevent people from fulfilling their potential
transformational long-term cycling strategy.

 Become a fit for purpose council which leads
our city by enabling and empowering others to Four out of seven of our strategic cycling routes will be
achieve operational, linking Newcastle’s densely populated
inner suburbs to a revitalised urban core.
Through all of this and the support of our strong cycling
community we will make Newcastle a city that is ‘Fit for A complementary package of measures to encourage
Cycling’. and enable more cycling in neighbourhoods will
transform everyday travel for all.
Councillor Joyce McCarty
Deputy Leader of Newcastle City Council
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A3. Geographical area: Civil Society organisations
The programme has support from the following civil
The Newcastle-Gateshead City Deal Area comprises
society organisations: Sustrans, the CTC and Living
the City of Newcastle and Gateshead Quays.
Streets.
Newcastle’s bid prioritises changes to the urban core
and to the inner suburbs, within 2 miles of the city
Transport Operators
centre.
The programme is supported by Nexus and East Coast
Radial cycle routes will be constructed east through
Mainline.
Byker, west to Elswick and north to Gosforth.
The Northern Route will be extended along the Great Partnership bodies will have a role(s) on the
North Road to Newcastle Great Park which is the main management and co-ordination groups listed below:
housing growth area for Newcastle.
1. Programme management group (meets quarterly)
Maps illustrating the City Deal Accelerated
Development Areas, locations of proposed schemes, Responsibilities: project ownership and accountability,
existing transport infrastructure and other points of strategy, vision, oversight and approval of project
interest to this bid, are provided in Appendix 1. implementation (ensuring alignment with wider
sustainable transport and public health programmes),
OS Grid Reference: 425800 562800 milestones, budget, PR, outputs and outcomes,
monitoring and evaluation, risks and issues.
A4. Type of bid
(please tick relevant box): 2. Technical co-ordination group (meets monthly)
Responsibilities: infrastructure design iteration, best
Large project bids
practice and benchmarking, cycle schemes evidence
(requiring DfT funding of between £5m and £20m)
base, input on wider transport strategy issues, street
audits and consultations (ensuring needs of local
Scheme Bid
cyclists and pedestrians are met and decisions are
A5. Equality analysis communicated), infrastructure user group consideration
assessments.
Has any Equality Analysis been undertaken in line with
3. Stakeholder group (meets quarterly)
the Equality Duty?
Responsibilities: supporting delivery and penetration
Yes
of programme, ensuring coherence and organisational
In line with Newcastle City Council policy and Equality co-operation in relation to programme delivery,
Duty, an Integrated Impact Assessment has been promoting community awareness, providing data and
undertaken to ensure that decisions and activities in feedback on delivery effectiveness and potential
relation to our proposed programme of work do not programme enhancements.
disadvantage different groups within our community.
A7. Local Enterprise Partnership /
The full Integrated Impact Assessment is available on
Local Transport Body Involvement
request.
Have you appended a letter from the LEP / LTB to
A6. Partnership bodies
support this case?
Appendix 2 includes a full list of the partnership bodies
Yes
that we will work with to design and deliver the
programme. We have appended a letter from the North East Local
Enterprise Partnership.
Stakeholder groups
The programme has support from the following
stakeholder groups: North East Local Enterprise
Partnership, the Integrated Transport Authority,
local business groups, local strategic community
organisations and the cycling campaign and forum.
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SECTION B – The business case
How our bid meets City Cycle Ambition fund requirements

The table below sign-posts to supporting evidence within the bid (hyperlinks are included):

Our City Cycle Ambition fund bid… Supporting evidence within the bid
Supports a range of different types of cycling Our 10 year cycling ambition is outlined on page 9 and on
measures that form part of a long-term strategy page 18.

Our 2 year Cycle City Ambition work programme is detailed
in full from page 11 onwards, including a summary of transport
problems and our solutions on page 20.
Supports the local economy and facilitates economic We have considered how each scheme within our 2 year work
development programme will support the economy from page 30 onwards.
Our programme is estimated to create 61 new jobs, as outlined
on page 9.
Includes commitment to a 10-year plan Our cycling ambition is shared. Over an 18 month consultative
process involving Newcastle City Councillors, Newcastle Cycle
Forum and private sector bodies, we have achieved unanimous
Is ambitious and has cross-party support and
cross-party political and community support. A statement of
commitment to a long-term vision for transformational
commitment from the opposition party is included on page 10.
change

Councillor Joyce McCarty, Deputy leader of Newcastle City
Council champions our bid on page 5 and on page 10.
Will offer overall value for money As detailed in Appendix 9: Economic Appraisal Report
(on page 104) our 2 year programme will achieve a maximum
BCR of 8:1.

Monetised benefits included in the assessment of value for
money are: impacts on health, decongestion, carbon emissions
and amenity value.
Includes engagement with the Acting Director of Our bid is supported by Dr Dawn Scott, Acting Director of Public
Public, Health and Health and Well-being Boards Health on page 12 (also see letter of support on page 68).
Dr Scott will join the programme management group, ensuring
co-ordination of activities with the Health and Well-being strategy
Explains how Health and Well-being Boards and
(see governance structure detailed on page 127). We have
local authorities' own public health teams will be
confirmed £776K in public health match-funding.
involved in the co-design and delivery of the cycling

ambition
Our bid is supported by Councillor Veronica Dunn, Cabinet
Member for Adult and Culture Services and member of the
Newcastle Health and Well-being Board (see letter of support
on page 70).
Will reduce carbon emissions, traffic noise and Our programme will increase cycling trips by 73%.
improve air quality through enabling big shifts in the
amount of cycling 1,232,177 additional cycling trips are forecast to result from
our two year work programme. We have modelled the impacts
and benefits of our programme in our Economic Appraisal Report
(see Appendix 9: Economic Appraisal Report on page 104)
Will improve the health of the local population and We will work in the city’s most deprived wards, where there
reduce health inequalities, in particular by targeting are high levels of deprivation, physical inactivity and ill health.
the most physically inactive groups
Our programme of community engagement will focus on

removing barriers to cycling amongst inactive and hard to reach
Will have a positive impact on pedestrians and hard
groups (as described on page 29. Also see details of how the
to reach groups
scheme was selected on page 34).
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Our City Cycle Ambition fund bid… Supporting evidence within the bid

This priority is particularly highlighted in our letters of support
from Dr Dawn Scott, Acting Director of Public Health (on page
68) and Councillor Veronica Dunn, Cabinet Member for Adult and
Culture Services and member of the Newcastle Health and Well-
being Board (on page 70).
Is part of a holistic package to increasing walking and We have modelled the impact that our Cycle Friendly Areas
cycling scheme will have on pedestrians and cyclists (see page 26).

Our programme will increase physical activity through walking
Will achieve well-being impacts through improved
and cycling. It is widely acknowledged that increased physical
public realm
activity promotes mental well-being.
Has a strong level of local commitment, both in terms Support for our programme is widespread, as demonstrated by
of the priority afforded to it for growth, and the Councillor Joyce McCarty’s foreword on page 5,
commitment to ensure delivery as soon as possible which recognises the programme’s contribution to growth,
and a wide range of letters of support from page 66 onwards.

We demonstrate our commitment to creating a step-change in
cycling on page 10 and deliverability on page 38.
Has a sound implementation strategy for Our implementation strategy is outlined from page 38.
infrastructure delivery during 2013/14 and 2014/15 A full project plan details output milestones in Appendix 11
(on page 126).
Includes ambitious and realistic output milestones, to
measure progress towards delivery of the package We have set out high level delivery milestones for the next 2
components to time and budget over the period to be years on page 38. We have considered key risks and have set
covered by the funding out a strategy for how we will manage them on page 39 and in
Appendix 13: Risk management strategy and QRA – part A
Includes planned measures for managing risks
(on page 131). We have considered commercial viability and
procurement on page 37.
Has a procurement strategy
Details how implementation will be managed across We have considered the range of partners that would be involved
Newcastle and Gateshead City Deal area and clearly in achieving our Cycle City Ambition on page 6 and on page 50.
identifies the roles, responsibilities and the level of
involvement of partnership bodies in the delivery We have detailed the roles that each partner would play and
process have mapped out a programme governance structure that will
appropriately and efficiently channel partner expertise and enable

all to play their vital role (on page 127).
Has senior level support from our partner

organisations.
A series of letters of support confirm partner commitment from
page 66 onwards, including a letter from key partners
Gateshead Council (John McElroy, Cabinet Member for
Transport).
Demonstrates a wide spectrum of community We have developed our vision for cycling over an 18 month
participation in decision-making and delivery, consultative process involving a range of stakeholders from the
drawing on the ideas and expertise of the community community, voluntary and private sectors (as shown on page
and voluntary sector beyond cycling 19). Going forward, technical and stakeholder groups will consult
on programme delivery (as shown on page 6 and on page 127).
Will make use of the Annual Population Survey APS baseline data on page 16 shows that in all cases, the Tyne
(APS) to explore what, if any, impact better cycling and Wear score is slightly lower than the England average.
and walking provision might make on the four
measures of well-being included in the survey It will be possible to compare the levels of subjective well-being
in Tyne and Wear before and after the programme. This
approach is documented in our Monitoring and Evaluation Plan
on page 161.
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B1. The scheme – summary Delivery of the strategy will be underpinned by:
 Transformational city centre regeneration under
Our programme has the following objectives: NewcastleGateshead Urban Core Area Action
Plan
 Development of a city-wide strategic cycle
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To increase cycling by delivering a Supporting the economic expansion of the city
step change in the quality,

attractiveness and perception of cycling Over the next 10 years, our strategy will address major
opportunities within Newcastle. cycle safety and severance issues to transform
everyday travel for all, complementing the economic
To make cycling more competitive with expansion of the city.
car use (particularly for shorter 
journeys) Investment in cycling generates jobs, both in the
construction of infrastructure and through the delivery
To heighten public awareness and of soft measure interventions. We estimate that 11 jobs

acceptability of cycling are created for every £1 million of investment in
sustainable transport infrastructure.
To enhance the public realm / street
scene and create more attractive, safe 
and welcoming local environments Our Cycle City Ambition programme is estimated to
create 61 jobs; 54 jobs through infrastructure
To ease congestion / bottlenecks and investment and a further 7 jobs at the Active Travel
smooth traffic flows into and out of the   Centre and through Community Outreach work.
city
City centre regeneration
To enhance access to employment,
training and services for all sectors of Our strategic cycle network will pass through and link
the community, with a specific focus on communities to opportunities in the following
improving access to: regenerated urban employment centres:

 urban employment centres
 Newcastle city centre/shopping centre/urban
 development sites that have the  
core (which is being extended)
potential to create housing
 Gateshead town centre/urban core
 development sites that have the (which is undergoing continued revitalisation)
potential to create jobs
Housing growth
 the Enterprise Zone, located along
the North Bank of the Tyne We will improve access to the following new housing
growth sites:

Our 10 year ambition  Newcastle Great Park
 Scotswood
Newcastle has an ambition to be a healthier, more  Walker
prosperous and sustainable city that is  Newburn
‘Fit for Cycling’, with safer, more attractive places  Gateshead town centre/urban core
to move through and live in. (incorporating development of Northumbia
University student housing which is currently
under construction).
In 10 years we would anticipate approximately 12%
cycle mode share for trips under 5 miles Access to training
(see: Levels of cycling investment on page 10).
We will improve access to training opportunities.
The strategic cycle network will provide safe cycling
Our cycle strategy sets out how we will achieve an access and facilities for Newcastle University (20,000
increased cycle mode share for all short trips. students), Northumbria University (30,000 students),
Newcastle College (30,000 students) Gateshead
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College (14,000 students) and the proposed University Levels of cycling investment
Technical College (900 students).
Newcastle City Council’s existing capital plan enables
Access to employment us to commit to expenditure of £10 per population head
beyond Cycle City Ambition Investment, into 2016.
We will improve access to the following development

sites with the potential to create jobs:
In 2016 (year 3) we plan to progress phase 1 of two

additional schemes:
 Newcastle Science Central (major office 1. The Longbenton strategic route (linking the city
development at this site will offer opportunities centre to the north east)
for businesses to co-locate with Newcastle 2. West Denton strategic route (linking the city
University) centre to the south west)
 Stephenson Quarter and Newcastle Central rail
station (this area is primed to become a major These routes are budgeted in Appendix 6: Full
new office district in the next decade) breakdown of package costs.
 East Pilgrim Street (an under-utilised area
adjacent to the city centre’s main business and Budgets are not yet confirmed for future years, but we
retail district, set to become a substantial can confirm that Newcastle is committed in principle
mixed-use development) towards maintaining investment at this level and
 Gateshead Quays and Baltic Business Quarter creating a city that is ‘Fit for Cycling’.
(which will host a significant new mixed-use
development, including an international
conference and exhibition centre)
 The Enterprise Zone, located along the North
Bank of the Tyne.

Our commitment to creating a step change in cycling

Our cycling ambition is shared. Over an 18 month

consultative process involving Newcastle City

Councillors, Newcastle Cycling Forum and private

sector bodies, we have achieved unanimous “Our commitment to cycling in Newcastle is
cross-party political and community support. not just for today or this week but for the
longer term. Like all councils we cannot be
certain about our future funding but we will
make every effort to use our own funds and
source other funding to continue to invest in
“We have always been cycling. This as an investment in the future of
strong supporters of Newcastle and the lives of our residents
cycling in Newcastle, which will help us meet priorities for our city.”
for its obvious benefits
to reduce carbon Councillor Joyce McCarty
emissions, ease traffic Deputy Leader of Newcastle City Council
congestion, improve the
local environment and

promote public health.
Assuming that the £10 per head spend is maintained,
The Liberal Democrat administration and that any future investment made will provide the
drafted the city’s cycling strategy in 2011 same uplift in cycling as modeled for the Cycle City
and, following the change in political Ambition period (over the longer term), by year ten we
control, we were pleased that the incoming would anticipate approximately 12% cycle mode
Labour administration adopted it and is share for trips under 5 miles.
moving it forward.

The strategy received unanimous cross-
party support when it was adopted last
year.”

Councillor Gareth Kane
Opposition Spokesman on Environment
and Sustainability
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