Warwickshire Approves its LCWIP
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Warwickshire County Council has voted to approve its new Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan, in the Cabinet session held on 15 February 2024. The detailed plan, in development since 2022, sets out the County Council’s vision for walking, wheeling, and cycling.
Consultations and engagement events were held to gather public feedback on the draft document which sets out hundreds of potential schemes for active travel as a viable means of local transport. In the consultation, over 1,000 comments were received from across the county, in which public support for the plans was clear with over 77% of respondents in support.
The County Council now has a clear and defined policy for active travel provision when also including the recent updates to its Local Transport Plan, coupled with the latest infrastructure guidance from central government, and the establishment of Active Travel England.
The difficulty now, as noted in the Cabinet session, is funding. While the Council has good plans on paper, it cannot deliver them without money. It is vital that the Council uses its resources effectively to prioritise the build of new walking, wheeling, and cycling infrastructure whilst also improving routes that already exist, and moves quickly away from a motorcentric mindset when it comes to its transport projects.
Commitment to active travel on paper and in council sessions such as this is laudable, but it’s the Council’s actions that will really demonstrate whether it is taking that commitment seriously.
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