May 2024

We’re delighted to announce that, in March, SYMCA approved over £3 million of investment in Sheffield for the Connecting Sheffield: Abbeydale Road and Ecclesall Road project. The project was approved with some changes to the original proposals, which we consulted on in 2022.

The original proposals included the following measures:

• Upgrading the traffic lights located at all four approaches to the Abbeydale Road / Bannerdale Road / Archer Road junctions to become controlled pedestrian crossings.
• Implementing a new controlled exit for traffic leaving St Peter and St Oswald's church and adding new traffic lights.

After reviewing the initial design at the junction near the church, we found that adding crossings to the junction near the access road leading to the church would lead to safety concerns and wouldn’t meet existing guidance, and so we removed them from the scheme we recommended to SYMCA. However, we are looking at alternative options to provide crossings at this location in future.

As well as this, the approved scheme also does not include the implementation of ‘red routes’, following the recommendation approved by Sheffield City Council’s Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy Committee. You can find the minutes and details of the Committee’s July 2023 meeting here.

In the coming weeks, we’ll share a wider project update with you.