The growth agenda brings many exciting opportunities for the regeneration of Aylesbury as an economic centre and tourist attraction with the long term plans for the regeneration of the town centre. However, Aylesbury’s vitality is dependent on its accessibility to both the large number of residents in Aylesbury Vale’s market towns and rural hinterland, and to visitors from further afield who may choose to travel by car, bus or rail to Aylesbury.
In recognition of this the Board of Aylesbury Vale Advantage approved the allocation of approximately a million pounds of Growth Area Funds to support the delivery or a range of smaller transportation projects by Bucks County Council. These projects build on the work done to date to devise and implement a transport strategy for the town which can deliver the growth contained in AVDC’s emerging Local Development Framework. These projects will deliver access improvements on some of Aylesbury’s existing roads by identifying:
- Changes to or improvements in, the management of traffic at Aylesbury’s key junctions. Traffic modelling will be able to determine which solution maximises capacity and traffic flow and reduces traffic congestion during peak hours.
- The future growth in traffic flows as a result of an increased population in addition to the increase in traffic on Exchange Street, Upper Hundreds Way and New Street which will occur from visitors to the theatre and shoppers visiting the new superstore.
- Options to deliver road infrastructure on the urban fringe of Aylesbury; once the allocated sites for housing and employment growth has been approved by The National Planning Inspectorate in 2010.
The existing condition of Park Street Canal bridge presents as a constraint to the distribution of traffic around the town; the current status of the bridge preventing heavier traffic to use the route which would ease traffic on the High Street and Tring Road. This project will strengthen the bridge and restore the architectural form of the bridge to its original state, adding to the restoration of the area which has taken place with the development of the former Nestle site as a prime central location for town centre living.
