Nottingham City Council - Building a better Nottingham

Since 2012 over £750 million has been invested to build a better Nottingham.

Significant improvements have been part funded through the UK’s first Workplace Parking Levy, generating over £25m revenue since 2011.

Such a large and compressed delivery programme has resulted in times of significant disruption to citizens, businesses and visitors with adverse impacts on how people and goods travelled. During this period of transformation, the City Council and its partners adopted a strategic transport coordinated approach to ensure Nottingham remained “Open for Business”. With the successful award of over £15.4 million through the Government’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) in 2011, there was a golden opportunity to fully realise the potential of the large infrastructure investment increasing economic competitiveness, creating capacity for growth, and attracting inward investment.

The Nottingham LSTF programme was designed to deliver a comprehensive package of measures to make low carbon travel options more attractive, link people to jobs, and support active travel and was delivered on time and to spend. The LSTF programme has the best scoring Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR) nationally with good practice referenced in a number of national research activities, case studies and publications.

Going forward into 2016 Nottingham is encouraging a cycle revolution through a £6.1 million Cycle City Ambition infrastructure programme and as the most energy efficient city in the UK for local energy generation, with a fully electric tram network and 45 electric buses in operation; Nottingham is making serious headway in developing a resilient low carbon transport system. Nottingham, in partnership with Derby and Nottinghamshire, has recently secured funding to become one of the UK’s exemplar Go Ultra Low Cities.

The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire authorities are also working together to develop Combined Authorities proposals on strategic aspects of public transport and transport strategy which will deliver efficiencies and new ways of working across the conurbation.