A contra-flow for cycling has been provided on the Carshalton station approach road for a number of years. However, the contra-flow, which exists on a road owned by Network Rail and leased to the incumbent rail operator (currently Govia Thameslink…
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Sutton’s Air Quality Action Plan 2019-2023
Summary Sutton’s new Air Quality Action Plan was launched in June 2019, following a period of consultation. Although there is much to commend the new Action Plan, one of the actions suggests that it is going to take until 2021…
Sutton’s Environment Strategy 2019-2025
Sutton Council launched its Environment Strategy on 5 June 2019, through the news item Sutton Council publishes Environment Strategy on World Environment Day. The new Environment Strategy replaces the Sustainability Strategy (One Planet Sutton), and looks ahead to 2025. Sutton’s Environment Strategy 2019-2025…
Sutton’s third Local Implementation Plan receives approval
Overview Sutton’s third Local Implementation Plan (LIP), which sets out the borough’s aspirations for transport over the next twenty years and provides an investment programme for the next three, received approval from the Mayor of London on 12 April 2019…
Tour of Enfield May 2019
Neil Webster (London Cycling Campaign Trustee, Sutton school governor), and Charles Martin (LCC member) visited Enfield on 20 May 2019 to attend a guided tour hosted by the Enfield Cycling Campaign. Much progress has been made, and continues to be…
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What are Sutton’s key borough traffic reduction objectives?
1 Overview Each London borough is required to develop a Local Implementation Plan (LIP) to set out how the borough will deliver, or implement, the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) at local level. Transport for London (TfL) manages the LIP process…
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Number plates for students who cycle to and from Stanley Park High
Every week during term time the Headteacher at Stanley Park High School publishes an informative Weekly Bulletin. Monday, 17 September 2018, the start of the new academic year, was no different. Except this time, the bulletin possibly received considerably more…
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First sight of ‘Healthy Streets’ proposals for Sutton
1: The Healthy Streets approach from 2019 A report entitled ‘Local Implementation Plan (LIP) – Traffic Schemes for 2019/20’ was presented to each of Sutton’s six local committees during early summer 2018. The report, the contents of which was tailored…
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Evidence in support of 20mph
Get Sutton Cycling wrote to Sutton Council Leader Ruth Dombey on 19 August 2018, providing evidence in support of 20mph. A response or acknowledgement had not been received by 19 November 2018. From this point, given that three months had…
Sustainable Transport Strategy 2015: a progress report for 2018
Papers released this week, as part of the agenda to the Environment and Neighbourhood Committee meeting scheduled for 28 June 2018, include the report ‘Update on Sustainable Transport Strategy‘ and three associate appendices (one of which, Appendix B, provides details…
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