People and Place Plan
In line with the Regional Transport Strategy 2035, the SEStran People and Places Grant Fund is a key part of the regional delivery of active travel behaviour change in South East Scotland. The overall plan is designed to deliver behaviour change interventions to support people in the region to choose active travel over private vehicles.
The plan’s key objectives include:
- Deliver increases in walking, wheeling and cycling, by both enabling and encouraging people that don’t make these choices to start to do so, and for those that do so already to do more
- Raise awareness of the benefits of active travel to many other people, making them more likely to change in future
- Work in many of the region’s communities, schools, and residential settings, plus build capacity and capability for further change
To deliver the plan, we are distributing £5.3million of funding from Transport Scotland to projects across the region that deliver against the plans key programme areas, including projects in schools, workplaces, and local communities. This includes £2.5million that has been provided to local authorities to deliver on their local priorities in line with the regional plan, which is supported by the £2.4million People and Place grant fund which has offered funding to 14 projects across the region.
- – this guides our approach for 2025/26 onwards
Integrated Impact Assessment