News: Sheffield-Rotherham link road cancelled
Local authorities working on the Don Valley Corridor will need to take a different funding route to address the road infrastructure after the scrapping of a long-discussed idea of a new road linking Sheffield and Rotherham.
Rothbiz reported first in March that the region's first Mayoral Development Zone (MDZ) is proposed for a unified corridor for innovation, industry and neighbourhood renewal stretching from Sheffield city centre to the site of the proposed Rotherham Gateway Station.
The Don Valley Corridor programme will address transport issues, flood resilience and brownfield land which has been held back by contamination, low land values and viability constraints.
The 30 year transformation will enable over 18,000 jobs and 10,500 new homes with a £1.3bn uplift in GVA.
A new road scheme in the area was previously "under consideration" by the Department for Transport (DfT) but now plans for the Sheffield Innovation Corridor Road have been withdrawn.
The government's Major Road Network and Large Local Majors (MRN/LLM) programme supports vital transport schemes on local authority-controlled "A" roads.
16 schemes are progressing with 25 withdrawn or removed from the programme.
The Sheffield Innovation Corridor Road was withdrawn "on the grounds that the promoting local authority can no longer afford its funding contribution."
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The project was described by the DfT as "a new 3.7km transport and active travel corridor broadly parallel to the M1 between J34 (s) to J33 and running from the A630 at Catcliffe to the A6109 at Meadowhall."
An application for the project was made to the fund in July 2016 and £1.4m was secured to work up a business case.
Linked to the innovation district idea and subsequent investment zone designation, the scheme aimed to facilitate economic growth by reducing existing network capacity constraints by improving connectivity and capacity to, and within, key development sites in Sheffield and Rotherham.
A Sheffield city region report from 2020 explained the issues around congestion at the M1 junctions in Sheffield and Rotherham and estimated the total project value of the new road scheme to be around £100m.
Effectively the scheme would have linked Waverley in Rotherham with Meadowhall in Sheffield so that journeys could be made without using the M1 or its junctions. The route from the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) would pass the emerging plans for Runway Park on the site of the former Sheffield Airport, development sites at Tinsley like Bessemer Park, the River Don District and Forgemasters' new site south of Meadowhall.
Options previously looked at include new and/or upgraded highways and some more significant infrastructure solutions including bridges and tunnels.
It is not the first time that plans have failed to materialise. The Waverley Link Road was scrapped after Rotherham and Sheffield Councils could not agree on a route. A sourthern route of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) scheme was also shelved following government cuts. The northen route saw a new link road built passing under the M1 connecting Templeborough to Meadowhall South.
Don Valley Corridor website
Images: Bond Bryan
Rothbiz reported first in March that the region's first Mayoral Development Zone (MDZ) is proposed for a unified corridor for innovation, industry and neighbourhood renewal stretching from Sheffield city centre to the site of the proposed Rotherham Gateway Station.
The Don Valley Corridor programme will address transport issues, flood resilience and brownfield land which has been held back by contamination, low land values and viability constraints.
The 30 year transformation will enable over 18,000 jobs and 10,500 new homes with a £1.3bn uplift in GVA.
A new road scheme in the area was previously "under consideration" by the Department for Transport (DfT) but now plans for the Sheffield Innovation Corridor Road have been withdrawn.
The government's Major Road Network and Large Local Majors (MRN/LLM) programme supports vital transport schemes on local authority-controlled "A" roads.
16 schemes are progressing with 25 withdrawn or removed from the programme.
The Sheffield Innovation Corridor Road was withdrawn "on the grounds that the promoting local authority can no longer afford its funding contribution."
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The project was described by the DfT as "a new 3.7km transport and active travel corridor broadly parallel to the M1 between J34 (s) to J33 and running from the A630 at Catcliffe to the A6109 at Meadowhall."
An application for the project was made to the fund in July 2016 and £1.4m was secured to work up a business case.
Linked to the innovation district idea and subsequent investment zone designation, the scheme aimed to facilitate economic growth by reducing existing network capacity constraints by improving connectivity and capacity to, and within, key development sites in Sheffield and Rotherham.
A Sheffield city region report from 2020 explained the issues around congestion at the M1 junctions in Sheffield and Rotherham and estimated the total project value of the new road scheme to be around £100m.
Effectively the scheme would have linked Waverley in Rotherham with Meadowhall in Sheffield so that journeys could be made without using the M1 or its junctions. The route from the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) would pass the emerging plans for Runway Park on the site of the former Sheffield Airport, development sites at Tinsley like Bessemer Park, the River Don District and Forgemasters' new site south of Meadowhall.
Options previously looked at include new and/or upgraded highways and some more significant infrastructure solutions including bridges and tunnels.
It is not the first time that plans have failed to materialise. The Waverley Link Road was scrapped after Rotherham and Sheffield Councils could not agree on a route. A sourthern route of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) scheme was also shelved following government cuts. The northen route saw a new link road built passing under the M1 connecting Templeborough to Meadowhall South.
Don Valley Corridor website
Images: Bond Bryan
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