A year after our meeting with Sutton Council to discuss our Space for Cycling ‘ward asks’ (see the Notes to our November 2014 meeting for the background on the meeting), there is now at last some progress to report. On…
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Sutton’s Cycling Champion researches cycling
It’s good to know that Cllr. Manuel Abellan, the borough’s official Cycling Champion (as announced at Sutton’s second cycle summit in July 2015), has been doing his research! Three major cycling conferences have been held in London over the last…
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Green Wrythe Lane off-road cycle facility – next stage announced
The excitement that followed the Space for Cycling petition handover to the Leader of the Council towards the end of July, complete with the declaration that the political will is there and that all that was now required was action, has…
Space for Cycling petition presented to the Leader of the Council
The political will is there, now we need action! The political will is there, now we need action! This was the message from the Leader of Sutton Council, Ruth Dombey, when we presented our Space for Cycling petition on 23…
Sutton’s draft Cycling Delivery Strategy published
Sutton Council has launched a consultation on their draft Cycling Delivery Strategy. A copy of the draft strategy and a questionnaire are available from the council’s website at the Sutton Consultation Hub. The publication of the draft strategy, on 21 July, has…
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Sutton’s Cycling Delivery Strategy consultation workshop announced
Sutton Council has been announced that the draft Cycling Delivery Strategy for the borough will be open to consultation between 17 July and 7 September 2015. In support of this, and in order to consult as widely as possible, a…
Consultation expected imminently on Sutton’s draft Cycling Strategy
Three transport planning consultancies, Phil Jones Associates, Steer Davies Gleave and Transport Initiatives, were shortlisted by Sutton Council in late February or early March to bid for the production of a draft Cycling Strategy for the borough. The work was…
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And then there were ten!
We were delighted to receive the news on 14 April 2015 that Councillor Hanna Zuchowska (Liberal Democrat, Wandle Valley) had added her support to Space for Cycling in Sutton. Along with Councillor Manuel Abellan (Liberal Democrat, Beddington South), who declared…
Green Wrythe Lane: an update
Sutton Council’s proposals for Green Wrythe Lane, update 22 January 2015 Get Sutton Cycling is pleased to learn that Transport for London has asked Sutton Council to put their proposed scheme for a cycleway footway, on a section along the…
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A meeting with new MP for Sutton and Cheam, Paul Scully
Yesterday (13 June 2015), newly elected Sutton and Cheam MP, Paul Scully, held surgeries at several locations across the constituency for the first time since his election on 5 May. I took the opportunity to go along to Paul’s afternoon…