POLICY NINE: LOCAL MOVEMENT ROUTES
OBJECTIVE 12
To encourage walking and cycling by improving local transport links and public right of way routes within the neighbourhood area and to adjacent parishes, including green lanes to provide for safer travel and healthier lifestyles.
OBJECTIVE 13
Improve cycle routes in the town and connect to the Strawberry Line
OBJECTIVE 16
Provide adequate parking facilities are available for vehicles and cycles
i. New developments will be encouraged to create publicly accessible links from development sites to the wider footpath network/green spaces and, where possible, to public transport nodes in order to address gaps in the network and to improve existing provision.
ii. New developments will be encouraged to provide cycle paths into the centre of the town.
iii. New developments will be expected to provide pavements serving the new dwellings that are of sufficient width to accommodate at least two persons walking abreast and are suitably accessible for wheelchairs, prams and pushchairs.
iv. Developer contribution will be sought to deliver improvements to longer distance cycling routes including along the Strawberry Line.
v. Developer contribution will also be sought to create segregated routes and cycle parking facilities as follows: a. Route to the primary school at Cannards Grave from catchment areas such as Tadley Acres and Ridgeway estates including a crossing of the Cannards Grave Road
- Routes to Whitstone school from Tadley Acres and Ridgeway estates
- Cycle parking facilities: eg bike parking racks