Main plans have been revealed which might see numerous new Camel Path-style biking and strolling routes created round Cornwall.
Tasks have been unveiled in a number of areas across the county together with Mount’s Bay, Looe Valley and in Central Cornwall.
Cycle tourism is price £650 million a yr within the UK and helps as much as 15,000 jobs throughout the nation.
A survey in 2016 discovered that 10% of tourists to Cornwall had received on their bikes throughout their keep and the typical cycle vacationer spends round 9% more cash per day in comparison with different guests.
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By creating these new cycle routes Cornwall Council is hoping to draw extra cyclists to the county in addition to encouraging residents to make use of them as a substitute of their automobiles.
Connecting Central Cornwall
Cornwall Council is seeking to safe funding together with £20m from the Highways England Biking Safety and Integration Designated Fund and £5m from the European Regional Improvement Fund.
This may be used to assist create numerous trails which may very well be used for strolling and biking in Central Cornwall.
Routes embrace St Agnes to Truro; Trispen to Idless; Perranporth to Newquay and St Newlyn East to Carland Cross.
The council says this might assist create a “complete, prime quality strolling and biking community in Central Cornwall”.
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It provides: “Constructing on latest funding inside Truro this community has the potential to achieve out to outlying settlements, overcoming severance brought on by the A30 trunk street and complementing the brand new dualling scheme, to sit down alongside different exemplar cycle routes and trails throughout Cornwall.
“The community will hyperlink with housing and employment development areas, join coastal communities, present sustainable entry to key companies and assist handle congestion and air high quality points in Cornwall’s business heartland.”
Mount’s Bay Maritime Park Bay to Bay multi-use path
This 30km path might hyperlink cities and villages throughout west Cornwall with a route which is seeking to comply with within the footsteps of the popoular Camel Path.
Cornwall Council says the multi-use path could be a “prime quality strolling and biking hyperlink performing as a backbone, connecting communities, attracting guests and creating financial and cultural alternatives for West Cornwall”.
It provides: “The Bay to Bay multi-use path builds on the confirmed success of the Camel Path and the comfort of public bike rent schemes to create a 30km path with bike rent hubs at numerous key areas connecting Penzance, Marazion, Hayle and St Ives and several other small settlements.”
The council estimates that the Bay to Bay path may very well be utilized by as many as 300,000 folks a yr. The Camel Path attracts 424,000 guests a yr.
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Below the plans there could be a Bay Bikes rent scheme which might use docking stations for folks to rent bikes to make use of on the path.
The mission has been cut up into 4 phases, with the primary working from Marazion to Mousehole. The second covers Marazion to St Erth, the third connects to Hayle and the final part would connect with St Ives.
Cornwall Council is about to offer £1.6m funding for the primary part and is asking for £1.4m from the Authorities.
Cornwall Council is hoping to separate the £3m value of the brand new trails with the Authorities
Looe Valley Trails
A community of cycle trails may very well be created in south east Cornwall which Cornwall Council says could be “reinforcing Cornwall as one of many prime three locations for cycle tourism within the UK”.
Cornwall Council says: “The imaginative and prescient is to create a brand new biking and strolling path community in South East Cornwall linking Liskeard, Looe, Bodmin and Torpoint centred on the East and West Looe Valleys.
“This mission would additional open up entry to among the most lovely and distinctive panorama in Cornwall, the Looe Estuary with its wealthy wildlife and historic woodland and together with the SE Cornwall coast together with Whitsand Bay. It will assist to stimulate the native economic system and enhance alternatives for connecting communities.”
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The West Looe Valley route would hyperlink up Liskeard, Looe and Lanhydrock and will present a coast-to-coast trip by linking with the Camel Path.
And the Looe to Torpoint route would open up entry to the coast and enhance entry to Mount Edgcumbe and Plymouth.
Development prices may very well be round £eight.3m and the overall value of your entire mission may very well be round £16m.
Cornwall Council believes the Looe Valley Trails community might entice as much as 500,000 guests a yr and generate further customer spend of £18m a yr.
