Website and telephone payments Sunday 19 May
Our website and telephone payment systems are unavailable between 9am and 2pm on Sunday 19 May. You will not be able to pay for any council services on our website or over the phone during this time.
We are in the process of developing a series of Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) for the principal towns in the county.
In 2017 the government released its first Cycling and walking investment strategy, the strategy outlines the government’s ambition to make cycling and walking the natural choice for shorter journeys. Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) were identified in the strategy as a new strategic approach to identifying cycling and walking improvements at a local level. The LCWIP is designed to facilitate a long term approach to developing networks, but also designed so that the document can be updated and revisited throughout the 10-year period.
The key outputs of an LCWIP are:
We intend to develop and adopt an LCWIP for each of the principal towns in the county. The aim of these is to identify the main cycle and walking improvements in a town to enable the county council to bid for government funding and/or to secure funding contributions from developers.
At the present time the council has or are in the process of developing LCWIPs for the following towns:
Each LCWIP for North Yorkshire has been developed in line with the LCWIP guidance but taking account of the rural nature of North Yorkshire.
There is currently no government funding allocated for the implementation of LCWIP's. However, if funding becomes available from the government we will have a series of bid ready projects ready to submit for funding.
Additionally, having the LCWIP in place with network plans for each area allows the council to be in a much better position to request S106 funding from developers towards new infrastructure.