Huyton granted £12m for active travel plans
Knowsley Council will enter a grant funding agreement to deliver an active travel and road capacity improvement scheme on Wilson Road and Tarbock Island.
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has awarded the council £12m for the two Huyton projects.
Plans for construction of a travel corridor starting at Wilson Road for pedestrians alongside a segregated cycle path will be allocated £4m.
Huyton Business Park would then be connected to the village centre, allowing for safe and environmentally friendly travel, according to the council.
In addition, Knowsley Council received an £8m grant to increase the number of lanes at Tarbock Island, a roundabout at Junction 6 on the M62.
Road improvements have been designed to ease congestion around Huyton Business Park, as well as in preparation for the proposed Halsnead Garden Village development.
LCRCA first agreed on 15 November 2024 to award the £12m to Knowsley Council.
Funding was derived from LCRCA’s £30m package to enhance active travel routes across the city region.
According to the grant funding agreement, the scheme must be completed by 31 March 2027, or risk a withdrawal of funding.
Construction will be undertaken by contractor Tarmac.
Knowsley Council’s cabinet meeting on 15 January is expected to sign off the active travel package as proposed by officers. The meeting will also consider part of a further £12m package for improvements around Junction 4 of the M57.
The first phase of this, for which sign-off is requested, is a £4.5m project to improve capacity and active travel at the junction of Moorgate Road the East Lancs Road, close to the motorway junction. Road-widening to enable a straight-ahead lane, upgraded signalling and lighting, resurfacing and cycle improvements are all included in the scheme.
Phase two of this package relaters to work on the motorway junction itself, and is still in the LCRCA “gateway” process.
In further plans, the Sefton Maritime Corridor, a walking and cycling link between the Port of Liverpool and Atlantic Park will also see £12.4m of enhancements to cycling and walking links.
A further £4.9m was granted to the planned Runcorn Busway scheme to contribute to the Palacefields area’s regeneration.
