That's actually an important and difficult question - and raises tough balances, especially in certain 'not car' travel groups which have historic biases (eg the one that used to be ca… (View Post)

That's been within the compass of UK Planning Policy for many years (many decades for all I know), since the concept of mitigation "to make a development acceptable in planning terms" … (View Post)

That gets issues around being wasteful if you do not have continuity of vision in the organisation behind the initiative, or if Central Govt castrates the Councils for political reasons as has I thin… (View Post)

Given a need, LHAs are quite capable of using all their road building powers to create other types of public highways. One problem is that they were created to build roads, so that is all they are de… (View Post)

My example of these is a multiuser trail (Blackwell Trail) from my town that stops half a mile short of Alfreton (East Midlands Mainline to London) Station, and either way in by cycle is hilly and da… (View Post)