A safer and easier route for people walking, wheeling and cycling, it will mean:

• Safer crossings of busy roads near Sawston and in Stapleford and Great Shelford;
• A wider and better lit DNA path;
• Renewed, repaired and safer 20mph streets in Stapleford and Great Shelford;
• Safer crossing outside Long Road Sixth Form College.  

Two sections of the Sawston Greenway, Great Shelford/Stapleford and the DNA path, have undergone further buildability and road safety checks. Determination of the Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) for the schemes is also anticipated next year. Residents and stakeholders will be informed of the date that the TRO will be discussed and determined.

For the rest of the Sawston Greenway (Cambridge Biomedical Campus and A1301), work on our full business case and biodiversity assessments is currently underway.

These will enable us to submit the rest of the scheme for board review in the summer, for a decision to progress the scheme to construction in late 2026/early 2027.

The link through Great Shelford and Stapleford forms an integral part of the Sawston Greenway and will provide stronger links to Cambridge and communities in neighbouring villages. 

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We spoke to communities about ideas for the greenway in winter 2017/18. A first public consultation then followed in Summer 2020. Our decision-making Executive Board then agreed funds for the greenway in October 2020.

We sought public feedback for four weeks in Autumn 2022. Leaflets were delivered to 6,000 households and businesses. With an online webinar and a drop-in event anyone could attend. People could submit comments online, over the phone or via the post.

Following this our 09 March 2023 Executive Board meeting agreed to progress the route with the changes outlined in our You Said We Did Report.

Due to rising construction costs, we are pausing work on a proposed off-road link alongside the railway line from Shelford Station south to the Dernford Resevoir.

Following the A1301 north of Sawston into Stapleford at Church Street and along Mingle Lane, crossing Station Road on Chaston Road before joining the DNA path at Granham’s Road into Francis Crick Avenue in the Biomedical Campus to Robinson Way and Long Road Sixth Form College.