Cycle Path gets the Green Light
Fri 30th October 2015
Campaigners are celebrating after receiving news that the proposed Walkington to Beverley Cycle Path can go ahead. On Monday, Planning Inspector Lowe, appointed by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, approved the council’s application to exchange an area of land adjoining the Westwood, necessary for the scheme to go ahead.
In his words: “the deregistration and exchange proposal would not significantly adversely affect the interests of any person having rights in relation to the release land” and that “he proposal would have substantial benefits to the neighbourhood.”
The dual use footway and cycle path will provide a safe off-road route to and from school and promote the sustainable use of the Westwood. In the words of a Walkington ten year old it is biketastic!! Work is expected to commence in early 2016.
