Newsflash: Council Approves Active Travel Car Park with "Avoidable Safety Risks" | KLWNBUG - The Norfolk & Fens Cycling Campaign
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As we feared, the planning committee was pretty much told that there were no grounds to refuse permission for the 236-space car park by Nar Ouse Way with its 55-space bike shed. Some noble councillors resisted this strange advice and voted against or abstained, but enough voted for to permit construction of the car park.

Sometimes, I think my nearest town is doing pretty well at providing for active travel like cycling and walking, with a pretty good but incomplete greenway network. Other times, local government does stuff like this: keep pushing ahead with a large 236-space car park with a small 55-space bike shed apparently so they can say it’s “active travel” and have an active travel budget pay for it, but with an “avoidable safety risks” crossroads between the bike shed (numbered 2) and the access to the greenway towards town (numbered 8).

This crazy plan was approved at an irregularly-timed planning committee meeting this morning, with no notification to objectors (not even ones who had registered on the very error-prone self-service website) so I missed any chance to speak during the meeting and few councillors spend much time in the lobby before the meeting any more. I’m also pretty sure that councillors were told the road layout had been approved as safe, or words like that, but I need to watch the video recording because surely I must have misunderstood that???

Help me find any good in this. I guess it might be slightly nicer to wait out a rainstorm in this building instead of the bike shed of a nearby building?