News on Westhoughton Filtered Neighbourhood

Greater Manchester has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to revolutionise the way we all get around by creating a fully joined up walking and cycling network, known as the Bee Network.

Active Neighbourhoods are one of three core elements that make up the network alongside protected space on busy roads and quiet routes connected with safe crossings over busy roads. See Transport for Greater Manchester's Made to Move report and Bee Network proposa l for more information.

Active Neighbourhoods are Greater Manchester’s take on ‘filtered’ neighbourhoods. These are neighbourhoods where the movement of people is prioritised over the movement of motor vehicles. Typically this is achieved by creating cul-de-sac style access for cars but allowing through traffic for people walking and cycling – traffic is ‘filtered’.

This approach creates spaces to play and socialise, enables more green areas to be created and makes walking short distances more convenient.

Community engagement is key to the success of Active Neighbourhoods' and we are keen to understand the issues locally to inform potential design solutions and enable meaningful change to how people move around in a neighbourhood.

For more information and example schemes, please follow this link .