Settle Area Riverside Project

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Settle Area Riverside Project
Action for Market Towns Study Tour Wednesday
11th November 2009 Andrew Laycock Craven
District Council
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Introduction

• Need for improvement
• Project development
• Project funding
• Project delivery
• The result
• The future and lessons learnt

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Renaissance Market Towns

• Settle was one of the first towns to join the
  programme in 2003
• Settle Area Renaissance Team (StART)
• Community Consultation led to initial business
  plan
• Priority projects for Yorkshire Forward funding
• Project delivery by local authority

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Aims of the Riverside Project

• Develop stronger links between the Riverside and
  Settle Town Centre

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Aims of the Riverside Project

• Develop stronger links between the Riverside and
  Settle Town Centre
• Indirectly increase levels of visitor stay and
  spend.
• Enhance the Riverside as an attractive area
  accessible to all and link into the Yorkshire
  Dales National Park.

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Need for Improvements

• Underused

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Need for Improvements

• Poor access

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Need for Improvements
Signage
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Need for Improvements
Seating
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Project Development

• Consultation event held in January 2007
• 46 in broad support, 53 in support with minor
  amendments and 9 against.

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Project Development

• Consultation event held in January 2007
• 46 in broad support, 53 in support with minor
  amendments and 9 against.
• Down by the Riverside report issued

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Project Development

• Consultation event held in January 2007
• 46 in broad support, 53 in support with minor
  amendments and 9 against.
• Down by the Riverside report issued
• Identification of a delivery organisation

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Project Funding

• Craven District Council secured 125,000
  Yorkshire Forward investment.
• Lack of identified match funding.
• Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust asked to work
  with CDC, NYCC and YF to raise match funding.

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Funding Breakdown

• Yorkshire Forward 125,000.00
• Natural England Aggregates Levy Sustainability
  Fund 78,631.71
• Craven District Council 25,000.00
• Lafarge Landfill Communities Fund 20,000.00
• North Yorkshire County Council 14,594.54
  (plus project management)

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Construction

• Started on site end of February 2009
• Initial work included some tree removal
• Always looks worse than it is
• Lots of local interest

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Outputs

• Cycle way _at_ 2.5m wide 650m (or 1625sq m) 
• Dry stone wall 85m _at_ up to 1.7m high 
• Miscellaneous wall repairs 20m 
• Riverbank protection measures 50m 
• Bridge deck cleaning and re-surfacing 30m  
• One Stile preserved and rebuilt
• Three lighting columns installed
• Re-soiling and seeding 1700sq m 
• Five new finger post signs installed
• Three interpretation panels installed 
• TOTAL COST 263,226.24

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Future Opportunities

• The work delivered so far is only part of the
  wider scheme devised by Camlin Lonsdale.
• Linkages with Gisburn Forest, Lancashire.
• Linkages with Settle Hydro.
• Links to the Yorkshire Dales National Park

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Lessoned Learned

• Identify delivery organisation as soon as
  possible.
• Work with the delivery organisation / landowner
  to develop the scheme.
• Flexibility was the key to success.
• Value of the public / private / voluntary
  partnership.