Cycle Plan in bid for Lottery Funding The Five Arches cycle and walking path plan from Radstock to Midsomer Norton has received a tremendous boost by the announcement that Sustrans is through to the last round for their bid of a £50m lottery grant. The plans to extend the Norton Radstock Greenway right to the doors of Norton Hill school are now entering an exiting stage. The plan is one of 79 proposed paths that could potentially benefit from the grant and NRGy (Norton Radstock Action Group for cycling and walking) is currently preparing the planning application together with Sustrans. Local communities in and around Midsomer Norton stand to gain an important sustainable transport link, it will connect places like Radstock, Welton, Paulton, Westfield, Norton Hill and the centre of Midsomer Norton with a high quality cycling, walking and possibly a riding path. Eugene Kertzman the chairman of NRGy, said: "The announcement from the Big Lottery Fund is great news for the Norton Radstock area, even though the Five Arches project is a reserve project in the Connect2 scheme; the chances are that one of the 79 projects will drop out and we will be ready to slot in there and benefit from the match funding of £ 110,000.   The Connect2 bid is now one of the final four featuring on the ITV1 show in December when they will compete for the £50 million decided by a vote. The other three projects are the Eden Project in Cornwall, Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire and the Urban Park in the West Midlands. The Big Lottery Fund's chairman Sir Clive Booth said people who bought tickets should have more say in deciding on which good causes its proceeds should be spend. John Grimshaw, chief executive of the sustainable transport charity Sustrans urges people to vote for the Connect2 project in order to see local travel transformed across the UK. To find out more information and to register your support visit www.sustransconnect2.org.uk or text connect2 to 80010. More information about the Five Arches plans can be found at www.NRGy.org.uk
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