CHAMBER FEATURE
The Marine Park will aim to strengthen conservation efforts
Crucial link road is benefiting from further investment
The main aims of a National Marine Park are to:
• encourage the community to understand, enjoy, value and care for the marine and coastal environment
• strengthen existing marine conservation objectives and involve the local community in this
Councillor Sue Dan is backing the plans for a National Marine Park
• establish a world leading demonstration centre for a range of marine technologies including marine autonomous systems
• ensure those from disadvantaged backgrounds are able to enjoy the same opportunities to access the marine environment as others
• improve and enhance sustainable tourism, commercial fishing, recreation, shipping and marine services
• improve community health and wellbeing by increasing access for recreation
The project will be working with partners with operational responsibility in our coastal spaces such as Tamar Estuaries Consultative Forum (TECF), for example, alongside other key stakeholders including local businesses and the wider community to create a National Marine Park from which everyone in Britain’s Ocean City can be proud of.
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www.plymouth.gov.uk/marinepark Spring 2019 Chamber Profile 35
Plymouth City Council is celebrating news that a £22.56m investment earmarked for the Forder Valley Link Road has been confirmed by the Department for Transport (DfT). The business case for the scheme, which will create a much-
needed second route between the A38 and Derriford avoiding the often heavily congested Manadon roundabout, has now been approved. The Forder Valley Link Road
will not only help reduce journey times and improve traffic flow but also provide essential infrastructure needed to unlock growth in the north of the city. It will connect William
‘We’re really pleased the DfT has now
Prance Road with the junction of Forder Valley Road and Novorossiysk Road, making it easier to get to destinations such as Derriford Hospital, the University of St Mark and St John and Plymouth Science Park. The scheme will also open up the potential for new bus links
confirmed the funding it had earmarked’
from the east of the city and provide safer walking and cycling routes.
Enabling works got underway at the end of January and the
first of 14,500 trees have already been planted as part of a landscaping scheme designed to counter any loss of wildlife habitat. Councillor Mark Coker, Cabinet Member for Strategic Transport
and Infrastructure, said: “The Forder Valley Link Road is one of the biggest infrastructure projects this Council has ever embarked on. “It will provide vital extra capacity on Plymouth’s road network
and help deliver new jobs and homes in the north of the city. “We submitted a strong, compelling business case so we’re
really pleased the DfT has now confirmed the funding it had earmarked for this regionally significant scheme. “It’s great that Plymouth is continuing to build on its track
record of securing major investment in these large-scale transport infrastructure improvements. I would like to thank council officers who have worked so hard on the scheme.” The Forder Valley Link Road has already been successful in securing £4.7m from Highways England.
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