1: Overview The fourth Sutton Cycle Forum of 2018 (and the twelfth since the borough’s Cycling Strategy was approved in November 2015, and subsequently published in February 2016) took place on 1 November 2018 at the offices of Sutton Council,…
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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Sutton Cycle Forum July 2018
1: Overview The third Sutton Cycle Forum of 2018 (and the eleventh since the borough’s Cycling Strategy was approved in November 2015, and subsequently published in February 2016) took place on 10 July 2018 at the offices of Sutton Council,…
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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…
Waltham Forest mini-Holland with Paul Gasson
Following the talk Paul gave Waltham Forest mini-Holland: reducing road danger and growing active travel Charles Martin, Michael To and myself visited on Saturday, you can see the route taken and Michael’s thread with commentary. On behalf of @cyclinginsutton (including @MarcusHowarth…
Waltham Forest mini-Holland: reducing road danger and growing active travel
This post forms the second part to the Notes from our June 2018 meeting, and reports on agenda item 9 ‘Guest presentation: Waltham Forest mini-Holland with Paul Gasson’. Paul’s account of the radical transformation that is taking place in parts…
Notes from our June 2018 meeting
Get Sutton Cycling – the London Cycling Campaign in Sutton – met on the 6 June 2018 in the upstairs room of the Robin Hood, 52 West St, Sutton SM1 1SH. The highlight of this meeting (and the reason for…
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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…
Sutton’s councillors: from the class of 2014 to the class of 2018
The council elections on 3 May 2018 saw the Liberal Democrats hold London Borough of Sutton with a majority of 12 seats [1]. Of the fifty-four seats available, the Liberal Democrats won thirty-three, the Conservatives eighteen, and Independent candidates took three…
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