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Facts and Figures 

What are the aims of the Weaver Valley Regional Park?

The strategic aims for the Weaver Valley seek to ensure that the regional park will:

  • Act as a significant economic driver for the sub-region;
  • Provide growth for the Region’s tourism sector and cultural economy;
  • Establish greater awareness, pride, ownership and use of the Weaver Valley as an exceptional amenity for residents, visitors and business;
  • Radically change the image of the area and provide a high quality of life setting and environment for residents, visitors and business.

These overarching aims for the regional park will be delivered through the realisation of the following key objectives:

  • Developing a collaborative approach with private enterprise to deliver and maintain economic investment for the area and promote the cultural economy;
  • Enabling the local communities and visitors to experience the Weaver Valley through a network of linked open spaces, waterways, woodlands, heritage sites, countryside and leisure opportunities;
  • Achieving the renaissance of the area’s six key towns to support regeneration in and around their areas;
  • Reclaiming and creatively reusing derelict land;
  • Providing for outdoor recreation and participative sporting opportunities;
  • Protecting, promoting and developing the Valley’s outstanding historic and natural environment;
  • Delivering a comprehensive marketing and communications programme that reaches and effects changes amongst international, national, regional and local audiences.
     

Geography of the Weaver Valley

The proposed boundary of the Weaver Valley Regional Park takes in 352 sq km of central Cheshire and includes parts of the Cheshire districts of Vale Royal, Crewe & Nantwich and Congleton and part of the unitary authority of Halton.

The towns and villages of Frodsham, Northwich, Nantwich, Winsford, Middlewich, Crewe, Sandbach, Audlem, Weaverham, Barnton and Acton Bridge also fall within the boundary.

The estimated population size of Cheshire in 2005 was 679,750; over 40% of the County’s inhabitants were resident within the Weaver Valley regional park area (300,000). According to the 2001 census, the total population of Halton was 118,211; of this number, 52,720 people lived in wards either wholly or partially within the Weaver Valley boundary. Therefore the total population of the Weaver Valley is approximately 350,000).

The altitude varies from sea level to 170m with an average of 43m.