Cleckheaton Greenway Connection

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1 April 2025 – 13 May 2025

About the scheme

The West Yorkshire Places project aims to help create safer, healthier and better connected streets in Cleckheaton.

We want to improve connections between Spen Valley Greenway and Cleckheaton town centre. This will provide a new, accessible access to Cleckheaton for pedestrians and cyclists, helping to drive footfall and support local businesses. We want to implement traffic calming measures and new crossing points to make road travel near the Greenway safer. We also want to make things safer for people walking and cycling, by removing parking in the underpass and improving lighting.

The scheme is part of Kirklees Council’s wider Cleckheaton Blueprint(External link).

What sort of improvements could be made?

Our proposals contain:

  • Widening of the footway into Cross Crown Street and creating a new zebra crossing leading to Station Approach

  • Improve accessibility for cycling and wheeling between Railway St and Northgate using a modal filter and dropped kerbs.

  • Widening the footway under the bridge on Station Approach and restricting some parking.

  • Painting, installing new lighting and repairing the road surface under the bridge

  • New zebra crossing at the junction of Northgate and Cheapside. Disabled parking will be relocated nearby to accommodate the zebra crossing

  • Connect the greenway to Crown Street with a new accessible ramp

  • Convert a section of Crown Street car park into a mini park with seating, landscaping, events space and cycle parking

  • Tidy up and seating on the Greenway

  • New uncontrolled crossing over Station Approach to the proposed new green space within Crown Street car park

  • Improved walking, cycling and wheeling route signs

  • Prohibiting a left turn from Crown Street into Cross Crown Street

  • An improved crossing point on Toffs Road

  • New 20mph speed limit

  • Traffic calming

The measures give you an idea of what could implemented. Your feedback will be used to inform which of these measures are a priority to put in place and where they would have the most positive impact. There will be an opportunity for you to tell us of additional improvements you think should be in place.

Please note that some measures may not be implemented due to funding or technical constraints.




To see our proposals in more detail, please view the plans and let us know what you think using one of the following methods:

  • Drop a pin on our interactive map to show us where you would put one of the proposed measures above and add your comments

  • Ask us a question using the Question and Answer (Q&A) tool on this page

  • View our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

You can also contact us in the following ways, including to request information in alternative formats:

Email:  yourvoice@westyorks-ca.gov.uk

Phone: (MetroLine Information Service) 0113 245 7676

Post: FREEPOST CONSULTATION TEAM WYCA (no stamp required)


Drop in events

We will be hosting a drop-in event for anyone who wishes to discuss the proposals in more details with the project team or requires support to complete the survey.

When: Thursday 10 April 2025, 2pm – 5pm

Where: Cleckheaton Market Arcade

Attend our webinar

Can’t make it to a drop-in event? You can also sign-up to our online webinar and learn more about the project. There will also be opportunity for you to ask your questions directly to the project team.

When: Tuesday 15 April 2025, 6pm – 6:45pm

Where: Online webinar, Register:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dg48rH13RZW9dSZqaR4CAQ(External link)

Next steps

Feedback gathered from the public consultations will be considered and will inform the development of more detailed proposals. An engagement outcome report summarising the feedback will then be added to this webpage.

This engagement will close at 11.59pm on 13 May 2025.

Funding

The indicative allocation for this scheme is currently £900,000. Subject to a successful business case approval by the Combined Authority, costs would be funded by City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS).

West Yorkshire Combined Authority has been allocated £830 million from the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS), which is aimed at providing an integrated and inclusive transport network and was made possible thanks to the West Yorkshire Mayoral devolution deal. This work will build on the significant investment already being made in making it easier for people to walk, cycle and use public transport around West Yorkshire.

Brunswick Street

The Brunswick Street Footway scheme is the second scheme within the Kirklees district which is looking to improve an existing path for walking, wheeling and cycling near Huddersfield railway station. A public consultation has already been held when the project was previously part of the Huddersfield Rail Station Connections project, therefore no further engagement is being undertaken at this time.


1 April 2025 – 13 May 2025

About the scheme

The West Yorkshire Places project aims to help create safer, healthier and better connected streets in Cleckheaton.

We want to improve connections between Spen Valley Greenway and Cleckheaton town centre. This will provide a new, accessible access to Cleckheaton for pedestrians and cyclists, helping to drive footfall and support local businesses. We want to implement traffic calming measures and new crossing points to make road travel near the Greenway safer. We also want to make things safer for people walking and cycling, by removing parking in the underpass and improving lighting.

The scheme is part of Kirklees Council’s wider Cleckheaton Blueprint(External link).

What sort of improvements could be made?

Our proposals contain:

  • Widening of the footway into Cross Crown Street and creating a new zebra crossing leading to Station Approach

  • Improve accessibility for cycling and wheeling between Railway St and Northgate using a modal filter and dropped kerbs.

  • Widening the footway under the bridge on Station Approach and restricting some parking.

  • Painting, installing new lighting and repairing the road surface under the bridge

  • New zebra crossing at the junction of Northgate and Cheapside. Disabled parking will be relocated nearby to accommodate the zebra crossing

  • Connect the greenway to Crown Street with a new accessible ramp

  • Convert a section of Crown Street car park into a mini park with seating, landscaping, events space and cycle parking

  • Tidy up and seating on the Greenway

  • New uncontrolled crossing over Station Approach to the proposed new green space within Crown Street car park

  • Improved walking, cycling and wheeling route signs

  • Prohibiting a left turn from Crown Street into Cross Crown Street

  • An improved crossing point on Toffs Road

  • New 20mph speed limit

  • Traffic calming

The measures give you an idea of what could implemented. Your feedback will be used to inform which of these measures are a priority to put in place and where they would have the most positive impact. There will be an opportunity for you to tell us of additional improvements you think should be in place.

Please note that some measures may not be implemented due to funding or technical constraints.




To see our proposals in more detail, please view the plans and let us know what you think using one of the following methods:

  • Drop a pin on our interactive map to show us where you would put one of the proposed measures above and add your comments

  • Ask us a question using the Question and Answer (Q&A) tool on this page

  • View our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

You can also contact us in the following ways, including to request information in alternative formats:

Email:  yourvoice@westyorks-ca.gov.uk

Phone: (MetroLine Information Service) 0113 245 7676

Post: FREEPOST CONSULTATION TEAM WYCA (no stamp required)


Drop in events

We will be hosting a drop-in event for anyone who wishes to discuss the proposals in more details with the project team or requires support to complete the survey.

When: Thursday 10 April 2025, 2pm – 5pm

Where: Cleckheaton Market Arcade

Attend our webinar

Can’t make it to a drop-in event? You can also sign-up to our online webinar and learn more about the project. There will also be opportunity for you to ask your questions directly to the project team.

When: Tuesday 15 April 2025, 6pm – 6:45pm

Where: Online webinar, Register:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dg48rH13RZW9dSZqaR4CAQ(External link)

Next steps

Feedback gathered from the public consultations will be considered and will inform the development of more detailed proposals. An engagement outcome report summarising the feedback will then be added to this webpage.

This engagement will close at 11.59pm on 13 May 2025.

Funding

The indicative allocation for this scheme is currently £900,000. Subject to a successful business case approval by the Combined Authority, costs would be funded by City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS).

West Yorkshire Combined Authority has been allocated £830 million from the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS), which is aimed at providing an integrated and inclusive transport network and was made possible thanks to the West Yorkshire Mayoral devolution deal. This work will build on the significant investment already being made in making it easier for people to walk, cycle and use public transport around West Yorkshire.

Brunswick Street

The Brunswick Street Footway scheme is the second scheme within the Kirklees district which is looking to improve an existing path for walking, wheeling and cycling near Huddersfield railway station. A public consultation has already been held when the project was previously part of the Huddersfield Rail Station Connections project, therefore no further engagement is being undertaken at this time.


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