On 16 June 2016, Get Sutton Cycling received a plan of the new development at the site of the former Felnex Trading Estate in Hackbridge [Google Maps], a site that is currently empty with no buildings or roads left standing.…
Yearly Archives: 2016
The Wallington Superhighway? An easy win.
Wallington ought to be a honey pot for people on bikes. It has major shopping chains, but on a human scale, plenty of smaller shops and varied eating places, a regular farmers’ market, a post office and a railway station…
Posted in Advocacy
Cycle tour of Woodcote Road and Park Lane
On Saturday, 6 February 2016, Get Sutton Cycling joined Cycling Champion Councillor Manual Abellan for the seventh (and last) neighbourhood cycle tour of the 2015-2016 series. This time we were pleased to be joined by Carshalton and Wallington MP, Tom…
Posted in Advocacy, Cycle tour
What is your councillor doing for cycling?
We saw at the recent election for Mayor of London, nearly all the candidates got on board “Sign for Cycling” campaign. So what are our councillors doing to support this commitment to cycling? If you look around Sutton, you’ll be…
Tagged with: community, cycling, London Cycling Campaign, Sutton
Posted in Advocacy, Liveable Town Centres, Safe Routes to Schools
Posted in Advocacy, Liveable Town Centres, Safe Routes to Schools
Cycling to school 2016
Cycling To School – 2016 We are pleased to have this latest guest post from Cycling Dad, Stephen Hart. In 2014, Stephen related the experience of cycling to school in the London Borough of Sutton with his young daughter. Two years later, and…
Posted in Advocacy, Safe Routes to Schools
A cycling system for Carshalton
Carshalton in one of Sutton’s problem areas, as far as cycle campaigning goes. It is arguably the most attractive district centre in the borough, yet any potential attractiveness is spoilt by the A232 ploughing straight through the centre of this…
Posted in Advocacy
The 2016 mayoral candidates on cycling
The 2016 mayoral candidates, and what their manifestos have to say about cycling With just over a week to go until London elects its next mayor, we have been taking a look at what the candidates are saying in their…
Posted in News
Notes from our April 2016 meeting
Monday, 25 April, found us back at the Cock and Bull (competing with TV coverage of the Snooker World Championship from Sheffield, and Premier League Match between Tottenham Hotspur and West Bromwich Albion from White Hart Lane (1-1 at full…
Posted in Meetings
Sutton 2031 – is cycling part of the picture?
Sutton 2031 – is cycling part of the picture? In Sutton 2031 – planning for our future we presented our response to the consultation on the borough’s next Local Plan (2016 to 2031) along with its associated elements, the Draft…
Posted in Advocacy, Consultation
Get Sutton Cycling 
Cycling towards 2018
Open letter to all Sutton councillors, 5 May 2016: Cllr. Pathumal Ali (Liberal Democrat, Beddington North) Cllr. Nick Mattey (Independent (expelled from Liberal Democrat Party, 15 April 2015; joined Green Party, 25 April 2016), Beddington North) Cllr. Nighat Piracha (Liberal…