We’re signing this petition to confirm our support for a Greenway that provides a safe route for pedestrians, cyclists, mobility scooters, and wheelchair users, from Uley to Cam & Dursley Station, with a second phase linking Coaley and Slimbridge.
 
Despite 14 years of hard work by volunteers, the vision for a local Greenway is, as yet, unrealised. Significant challenges remain with funding shortfalls, landowner cooperation, and difficult squeeze points on the route, all of which will require energised collaboration to overcome.
 
The recent Covid-lockdown has reminded us how important a route like this is for our health, leisure and well-being, as well as for safe road-free access to local sites of employment, schools, shops, services, the railway and National Cycle Network (at Slimbridge). 
 
The Greenway will also help to reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions, improve local air quality, and enable safer journeys for road users other than those in cars.
 
This project is included in the Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan, in the Stroud District Local Plan Review and all the Neighbourhood Plans, Community Plans, and the masterplans for the Littlecombe and North-East Cam developments. 
 
We call on all our partners, particularly Gloucestershire County Council as the local Highways Authority, and Stroud District Council (who recently awarded the group £5k for the feasibility analysis by Sustrans), to continue to support materially and practically the creation of the Cam, Dursley & Uley Greenway, and to do everything possible to get this important project over the line.