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The Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP). This is a new plan that DfT is encouraging all Local Authorities to produce to help meet their ambition to make walking and cycling the natural choice for shorter journeys by 2040.
The LCWIP will be a tool through which LA’s can build the strategic and economic business cases to access funding for walking and cycling schemes. Officers are currently working on putting together this plan and deciding that it needs to be pitched at a high enough level to attract political interest and will.
Technical assistance will be provided by the DfT and a consortium of partners, including Sustrans, Living Streets, WSP etc.
The Ramblers Charter for Walkable Towns and Cities includes the LCWIP. Members discussed the problems and issues with providing useful and safe cycling infrastructure for all the levels of cycling ability in a crowded highway environment. TH felt it would be important to include safe walking routes to get into and out of the town centre to encourage older people that it is safe and feasible to walk for shorter journeys.