More than £16m of external funding will be invested into Nottingham city’s transport network in 2025/26 thanks to the new East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA).
Nottingham City Council is expected to officially accept the funding at its Executive Board meeting on Tuesday 22 April.
EMCCA, which has now taken over the role of directing the allocation of local transport funding, is providing funding for projects in Nottingham in four streams:
City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) programme (£7.547m)
This is a new funding stream for the region. It will enable transformational investment in infrastructure alongside the annual Highways Maintenance and Integrated Transport funding awards linked to the Local Transport Plan. This funding will be used to:
- Double the budget available for highway maintenance across the Nottingham city – this will be used to carry out resurfacing and preventative road maintenance to tackle potholes and improve safety, including on Porchester Road, Bestwood Park Drive, A6514 Valley Road and B6004 Arnold Road. Thanks to this funding: seven roads will be completely resurfaced, three part-resurfaced, 22 will have preventative work on the entire road and three will have preventative work on part of the road (a full list of roads can be found at the end of this press release).
- Upgrade our Parksmart car park signage system, including the current real time off-street car parks information system and signage for events and incidents
- Continue the Future Transport Zones programme until the end of the 25/26 financial year to further develop digital journey planning and integrated ticketing across more modes of transport and the creation of more transport hubs.
- Fund a feasibility study for the realignment of the southern section of Maid Marian Way to the Canal Street junction and extension of Collin Street public realm from the Green Heart through to Maid Marian Way linked to the next phase of the regeneration of the Broad Marsh area.
LTP Integrated Transport block £3.4m
This funding will be used to:
- Support our wider Active Travel programme, including funding to help create supporting connections to the new walking and cycling bridge over the River Trent
- Continue the Streets for People programme until the end of the 25/26 financial year (along with funding from the CRSTS2 funding stream)
- Continue funding to complete our traffic signal obsolescence project, which is replacing defunct signal lamps with more reliable and energy efficient LED versions
- Continue funding to our Workplace Travel Service programme, which offers grants to local employers and organisations to help make green travel improvements
- Make rights of way network improvements, including creating a new off-road bridleway on Old Colwick Road
- Contribute to the Safer Road programme, enabling active travel improvements to be made to Gregory, Lenton and Radford Boulevards while road safety projects are taking place
- Introduce solar-powered real time information displays at bus stops where electrical connection can’t be provided
- Replace expired signal control equipment including improving pedestrian crossings, beginning with three key junctions at London Road / Cattle Market Road, Mansfield Road / Winchester Street and Hucknall Road / Gala Way
Active Travel Fund £0.576m
This funding will allow the City Council to continue work on the next phase of walking and cycling improvements on Porchester Road, which will begin immediately.
Bus Service Improvement Plan £4.9m
This funding will be used to accelerate the decarbonisation of our local bus fleet by offering funding that local bus operators can bid for to be used to purchase electric buses and adapt bus depots to EV charging technology
Councillor Neghat Khan, Leader of Nottingham City Council and Executive Member for Strategic Regeneration, Transport and Communications said: “We are delighted to receive this investment into Nottingham thanks to the East Midlands Combined County Authority.
A 100% increase in the money we have available to maintain and fix our roads will mean we’re able to make a big difference tackling the potholes which risk the safety of cyclists, drivers and pedestrians.
Thanks to this funding, we’ll be able to make many positive changes to Keep Nottingham Moving, promote integrated transport and active travel, support our local economy, reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality, creating a happier, healthier city.”
Mayor of the East Midlands, Claire Ward said: “I am delighted we have been given this additional funding to invest in our roads and local transport programmes across the region. This is more than filling potholes and getting people from A to B, it’s about transforming lives and communities, and it will give us a fantastic opportunity to connect people across the region and make it easier to access jobs, skills training, health appointments, and our incredible tourist attractions.”
Posted on 22 April 2025
