Active Travel Routes

Our residents need to be able to more easily visit different areas of the town, and access the town centre through active travel routes such as walking or cycling. Our Active Travel section of the Neighbourhood plan proposes a network of pathways and routes which can be connected and signposted to vastly improve how well connected our town is – both internally and to other places outside of the town.

The work from this section of the Neighbourhood Plan has already been partially fed into the Waterside Transport Strategy Consultation (LCWIP).

In order to support more active travel we must make cycling as attractive an offering as possible, with low-speed residential streets, and family friendly separate infrastructure on busy roads.

We must also ensure that these active travel links connect us to surrounding rural parishes which are currently under-provisioned in terms of public transport.

We also need to ensure security and accessibility of bikes in the town centre and in key locations (such as near schools). We are proposing having an active travel hub in the town centre to support cyclists in the town, and expanded secure cycle storage at the train station. Cargo-bike hire would also help cyclists to be able to make larger shopping purchases or move awkward items between locations. School cycle parking would greatly improve traffic and on-road parking around our local schools, and enable children to safely get to school while actively travelling.

Active Travel Creating a healthy, family friendly town