Cycle Winchester has responded to or actively engaged with all major consultations and planning discussions concerning Winchester and its environs. We also use our links with supporters to encourage them to engage as individuals with all cycle-related planning issues, wherever possible.
Developers Legal & General and Gisborne, in partnership with landowners the Church Commissioners for England, have launched their consultation on plans to redevelop Bushfield Camp. They say the development will be “a best-in-class mixed use scheme has the potential to attract major brands looking for new headquarters to the...
In April, we published an article that highlighted the spate of bike thefts at Winchester Sports and Leisure Centre (WSLC) and also in Winchester more generally. Today we bring you an update to that story. Since April there have been a number of developments: It’s too early to tell which...
Mini-Holland schemes. As you may already know by now, Hampshire County Council is currently holding a consultation regarding potential “mini-Holland” schemes. As the name implies, a mini-Holland scheme involves intensive spending on local roads and streetscapes to make them, over time, as cycle and pedestrian-friendly as their Dutch equivalents. Hampshire...
Armchair activism A supporter contacted us to ask for tips on how she can lobby the authorities to make Winchester safer for her family to cycle. Here at Cycle Winchester we take an enlightened view of the value of the so-called ‘armchair activist’, defined by the urban dictionary as: a...
As we recently reported, Hampshire County Council, our local transport authority, has recently published its Local Transport Plan (LTP4). LTP4 sets the county’s policy for the next decade, with an outlook to 2050 in relation to climate change. So it’s a vital document for those of us who are calling...
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