Completion of Lifecycle scheme provides network of safe and accessible walking and cycling routes in Camborne

A network of new enhanced walking and cycling routes delivered with funding from Cornwall Council and the Camborne Town Deal programme is ensuring that the local community can travel safely between key sites in and around Camborne and the centre of the town.

Camborne Lifecycle, part of the wider Camborne Town Deal Transport Project, provides 3.7km of walking and cycling routes linking the town centre and residential areas to surrounding green spaces, including the Red River Trail, Tehidy Woods, North Cliffs and Godrevy, the Great Flat Lode Mineral Tramways and Tuckingmill Valley Park.

You can view a short video about the scheme here :

By encouraging more people to cycle or walk and cut down on car journeys, the scheme supports healthier living for Camborne residents and visitors, and will also help to improve air quality in and around the town centre.

Covering eight separate locations, the £2m scheme uses a range of measures, including new and improved footways, new pedestrian crossings, additional signage and street lighting, and clearing and resurfacing sections of the tramways to improve safety and accessibility.

With the final stage now complete, the Chair of the Camborne Town Deal Board Val Dalley and Camborne Mayor James Ball joined members of the transport project team, local councillors and officers from Cornwall Council on the south section of the tramway, between North Roskear Road and Roskear Road, to inspect the new footway and new streetlights.

They also visited Camborne Cricket Club where funding from the Lifecycle scheme has enabled much needed repairs to be carried out to a section of the supporting wall adjacent to the tramway.

Val Dalley, Chair of Camborne Town Deal Board, said: “These new walking and cycling routes are already making a big difference in Camborne – not just to residents but to anyone wanting to explore the town and surrounding areas. I’m delighted that the Camborne Lifecycle project is now complete and congratulate everyone involved in bringing it to fruition.”

Mayor of Camborne and Cornwall Councillor for Camborne Roskear and Tuckingmill, James Ball said “I am pleased to see the completion of the Lifecycle routes, these give residents and visitors an accessible path from the town to the outskirts and our green spaces a direct link to nature. I have already heard many positive comments about the routes and I look forward to using them myself. “

Paul White, Cornwall Councillor for Camborne Trelowarren, has been battling to secure improvements to the tramways for the past 12 years and is delighted to see the scheme finally being completed. “When I was first elected to Cornwall Council in 2013 one of my first initiatives was to improve the area for everyone. Following many meetings with officers over a number of years, work finally began on the section between Roskear and Roskear Road in 2018.

“Further works were then carried out between Roskear and North Roskear alongside the Cricket Club in 2022, although limited resources meant that the surface was largely gravel rather than tarmac, with work on the final stage - from North Roskear road to Boiler Works road – delayed for three years to enable knotweed on the site to be treated.

“Now, thanks to the Lifecycle scheme, the whole tramway has been resurfaced and improved with street lights added in all sections. I would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard to help deliver my original vision”.

For Reverend Mark Richards, chairman of Camborne Cricket Club, the offer to repair the boundary walls which adjoin part of the south section of the tramway was a dream come true.

“A combination of many years of wear and tear, wind and rain had caused a section of our boundary walls to subside. The problem had got to the point where we would not be able to fix it and we had no idea what we were going to do, giving both myself and the treasurer many sleepless nights.

“Then, out of the blue, the wonderful folk from the Town Deal project came along and said they wanted to work with us to repair our walls. It was the answer to all our hopes, dreams and prayers and we couldn’t believe it at first. The work was carried out over the summer and we now have two wonderfully restored archways, with the walls back to how they would have been all those years ago when they were first installed.

“We are over the moon as a cricket club and are incredibly grateful to the Town Deal Board, the transport project team and Cormac for their support”.

Other improvements delivered as part of the Lifecycle scheme include:

Widening the existing footway on the east side of Rosewarne Road and installing a dropped crossing point with tactile paving. These works have improved accessibility between Rosewarne car park and the centre of the town for residents and visitors to the area, including those with wheelchairs or prams, and the partially sighted. A new streetlight has also been installed as part of the scheme.
Installing a new signalised push button crossing at Roskear, near the roundabout outside Tesco, providing a safer place to cross this busy road.
Improvements to the north section of the tramway, between North Roskear Road and Boilerworks Road, which was previously overgrown and completely impassable.
Improving access for pedestrians at the Albert St / North Parade / Park Road / Roskear Road junction.

: The Camborne Renew and Camborne LifeCycle schemes are two of 10 Town Deal funded projects which are aimed at regenerating the heart of Camborne and transforming the town into a visually appealing, accessible place to live, work, shop and visit.

Lifecycle was awarded £1.7 million from the government’s Town Deal programme and £326k match funding from Cornwall Council. Renew has been awarded £2.9 million from the government’s Town Deal programme and £800k match funding from Cornwall Council. Work on the Renew scheme began in early November and is due to be completed in May.

You can find out more about both schemes on the Camborne Town Deal Transport page on the Let’s Talk Cornwall site :

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