Recently, GBC issued its Cycle Routes Assessment Feasibility Study, which included a comprehensive proposal for a Guildford town cycle network. GBC is now seeking the public’s views on this, as part of its “Local Plan: Development Management Policies – Issues and Preferred Options” Consultation. This includes a number of topics, one of which is “Achieving…
You may recall that Guildford Borough Council commissioned two parallel studies of a town bike share scheme and cycle network by consultancies Transport Initiatives and Urban Movement. They presented at a G-BUG workshop in June 2019, and we submitted a response in August 2019. The final ‘Cycle Route Assessments Report’ has now been issued. We…
(This has also been posted on the G-BUG Facebook Group and emailed on mailchimp.) G-BUG Chair Doug Clare has written to Matt Furniss, Surrey County Council’s Cabinet member for Transport, to request a dialogue about the Government’s statutory guidance to local authorities to reallocate roadspace as we come out of Covid-19 lockdown. Councillor Furniss has…
The document provides guidance for developers etc submitting planning applications. As such cycling infrastructure will only be relevant to large scale developments, which are perhaps better dealt with by the Strategic Development Framework SPD, and the only specific reference is to provision of cycle parking. But we think the document could do more to mandate…
Update 4 March: SCC/GBC will debate… read on. Please sign this petition to Surrey County Council. As it says: A Car-Free Day would show what Guildford Town Centre could be like without vehicles – a day with much reduced air pollution, CO2 emissions and noise. It would demonstrate the benefits of walking, cycling, and public…
Further to our original post, our response is here. G-BUG reps were involved in the GBC workshops, and we were pleased to see that most of our suggestions were included.
Representatives of G-BUG met with officials of Surrey County Council (SCC) and Guildford Borough Council (GBC) on 28 January for our regular liaison meeting on all matters cycling in Guildford Borough. Slides from the meeting can be downloaded here. Headlines: Click image to download all slides
Guildford Planning website has a “Non-Material Amendment” ref 19/N/00140 to the planning approval for Guildford Station redevelopment by Solum. It is to allow the relocation of cycle parking to a storage facility fronting Walnut Tree Close. It seems a sensible move. The application is already approved so there is no consultation period, but it may…
Update following meeting: The OSC voted to refer the approval of the Walnut Bridge project back to the Executive. This will mean delay, probably a few weeks for the Executive to meet again. If they vote for major reconsideration, then we could be talking months. Webcast video of the meeting here. Following a rocky ride…
GBC is consulting on its draft SDF Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) which provides guidance to assist planning and development of the strategic sites included in the Local Plan: Weyside Urban Village (former Slyfield Area Regeneration Project); Gosden Hill Farm; Blackwell Farm; Land to the South of Ash and Tongham; and former Wisley airfield. This includes…
