The Cally Liveable Neighbourhood

Our engagement survey is now open

We'd like to hear from you about our proposals to create a liveable neighbourhood in The Cally (read more about liveable neighbourhoods).

This will involve changes to bring communities together, improve air quality, and make the area greener, healthier, and easier to walk around, cycle, scoot, and use buggies and wheelchairs in.

Our proposals for the The Cally Liveable Neighbourhood have been guided by and will build upon the We are Cally Community Plan and the five themes that are set out in the plan for how The Cally will be by 2024.

• A strong community with a sense of belonging
• Better opportunities for children, young people and families
• Attractive, well-used public spaces
• Improved health and wellbeing
• A thriving, connected local economy that works for everyone

Development of our proposals have also been shaped by early engagement held between November 2022 and April 2023 . This involved collecting feedback from local people at in-person events and via email to identify issues and gather ideas on what can be done in the area.

Now we would like to receive feed back from local people on our proposals, to help develop aspects, alongside gathering any other ideas you may have about improving the area.

We want to make the area greener, healthier and more pleasant to spend time in, with new plants, trees and seating. We would also like to reduce road traffic to make local streets quieter, less polluted and safer to walk and cycle on.

What you have told us so far about the area

Over the past three years the council has been listening to feedback from residents in The Cally area.

We have received feedback from local people at in-person events held between November 2022 and April 2023 and via email on what can be done in the area.

You have told us that:

• you are worried about high volume and fast moving traffic in The Cally area
• you have said that you do not feel safe when cycling and would like to see more space created for cyclists within the area
• you want to see more pleasant, green public spaces and more places to stop and rest
• you have said that you would like more space created for pedestrians and improved pavements
• you are concerned how people with reduced mobility and those with pushchairs move around the area.

Using the received feedback, we have developed our proposals to address the issues that people raised.

What are our proposals for The Cally Liveable Neighbourhood?

Our proposals are:

• Proposal 1: Blundell Street walking and cycling route
• Proposal 2: Greening Frederica Street
• Proposal 3: Local walking and cycling link
• Proposal 4: New green corridor
• Proposal 5: Improvements to the approaches to Bingfield Park
• Proposal 6: Caledonian Road pavement improvements
• Proposal 7: Copenhagen Street walking and cycling route
• Proposal 8: Improvements to York Way Gardens

Map showing our proposals for The Cally Liveable Neighbourhood

How you can get involved

Next steps

At the end of the co-design stage we will analyse all of the feedback from the public meetings, surveys and emails to develop the designs for The Cally Liveable Neighbourhood.

Once we have developed designs we will hold a formal public consultation on the proposals later in 2023.

A decision on whether to implement the scheme, and in what form, will be taken after the public consultation has finished and we have considered the feedback received during the consultation.