Active Travel Planning

Ironside Farrar have considerable and long-standing experience of preparing feasibility studies, design development, construction delivery and reporting for a wide range of Active Travel / Cycle Routes throughout Scotland. The team deliver design development (RIBA Stages 0 to 7), undertaking all design, project management, community engagement, active travel planning, cost assessment, Behaviour Change, Monitoring & Evaluation and EqIA activities.

Major Active Travel projects for local authorities include:

• Glasgow Avenues (Block B and Block S projects) - multiple sites, including design, community consultation, EqIA, Communication Plan and Sustrans reporting.
• Path Network for Beauly-Denny 400kV OHL - RTPI Award 2019
• Walk Cycle Live Stirling, 2 Sustrans funded routes
• Glasgow Key Routes & Spaces 2014, £4.5m of public realm & infrastructure improvements. RICS Project of the Year, 2015
• HELIX Greenspace South cycleway / footpath infrastructure
• Connecting Clydebank Streetscape Design and delivery
• Cowgate Streetscape Design, Kirkintilloch
• West Blackhall Street Redevelopment, Greenock

Path Feasibility and Strategic Studies include:

• South West Scotland Green Travel Project – RIBA Stage 2 Business Plan
• Infinity Loop Active Travel project, Kilmarnock
• Bridge of Allan to Dunblane Active Travel Route
• Wallyford and Kessington Travel Hubs / transport interchanges
• Dumfries Learning Town: Active Travel Strategy
• Pentlands to Portobello Active Travel Route
• East Lothian Segregated Active Travel Corridor
• East Ayrshire Green/Blue Path Network Feasibility Study
• Irvine Valley Path Network Feasibility Study
• Rhins of Galloway Coastal Path Conservation Plan
• Orkney Northern Isles Heritage Trail and Active Travel Strategy

Active Travel Routes planned for community / stakeholder groups include:

• Make Your Way – Key Links, 3 South Lanarkshire rural communities, Sustrans
• Connel to Dunbeg Active Travel project
• Neilston to Uplawmoor Community Link Study, ERC
• Ralston Road Area Active Travel Routes, Campbeltown
• Cycle Route Promotion and Improvement (Broom Road and The Peak) Stirling

For more information contact: Jane Dixon

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