Hampshire County Council cycling strategy - closes 29 July 2015

Nothing hugely wrong with that John, but it ignores the elephant in the room that building a functioning network across a whole county by 2025 won't happen.  Huge danger you end up with schemes scattered across the county which achieve little.  Really you need to pick a few towns where there is political appetite and some of the ingredients are already there (e.g. A bypass and ped/cycle friendly town centre) and then go at it over several years to create a functioning network).

for new developments you probably need a planning document that has some teeth, e.g. A walking / cycling SPD.  Relying on pointing developers to half decent guidance might not do it.

Nothing hugely wrong with that John, but it ignores the elephant in the room that building a functioning network across a whole county by 2025 won't happen.  Huge danger you end up with schemes scattered across the county which achieve little.  Really you need to pick a few towns where there is political appetite and some of the ingredients are already there (e.g. A bypass and ped/cycle friendly town centre) and then go at it over several years to create a functioning network).

for new developments you probably need a planning document that has some teeth, e.g. A walking / cycling SPD.  Relying on pointing developers to half decent guidance might not do it.

Nothing hugely wrong with that John, but it ignores the elephant in the room that building a functioning network across a whole county by 2025 won't happen.  Huge danger you end up with schemes scattered across the county which achieve little.  Really you need to pick a few towns where there is political appetite and some of the ingredients are already there (e.g. A bypass and ped/cycle friendly town centre) and then go at it over several years to create a functioning network).

for new developments you probably need a planning document that has some teeth, e.g. A walking / cycling SPD.  Relying on pointing developers to half decent guidance might not do it.