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Local Cycling and Walking Plan

We are very pleased that Wiltshire Council have brought forward the development of a plan to improve the walking and cycling network in Calne and surroundings. The plan will form the basis of any work that will be done when funding becomes available. This is the time to put our ideas forward.

The consultation time has been extended until Monday 5th February 2024. The draft is very much a desktop exercise and needs local input. We need comments on what is good in the plan, what won’t work, and also what missed opportunities there are. You can have your say by following this link.

https://calne-and-melksham-lcwip.commonplace.is/

Meeting on Monday 11th December via Zoom

We held a meeting via Zoom on Monday 11th December week where we shared ideas and local knowledge about proposed routes.

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Wildlife on Your Doorstep and AGM

Wednesday 24th May at Marden House – AGM at 7.00, talk at 7.30

The Sustainable Calne AGM will be held on Wednesday 24th May at 7.00 at Marden House. This will be followed by a talk at 7.30 entitled:
“Wildlife on Your Doorstep – nature photography from your home.”

Local wildlife expert and photographer, David Sawyer, will talk about the local wildlife walks he takes – and some of the species he sees. He will also give some tips for taking good photographs – while ensuring the wildlife is not disturbed.

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New Benches for the Cycle Track

Thanks to the team of volunteers from Sustainable Calne, Calne Without Parish Council and Calne Clean-Up Crew these benches – made by Calne Men’s Shed are now installed along the cycle track between Calne and Stanley. Great team work everyone!

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Walking and cycling group meeting 14 July 2021

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Walking and Cycling Group Task Planner 22 June 2021

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Walking and cycling group meeting 26 May 2021

Agenda

  1. Attendance and Apologies
  2. Survey of Cycle Track towards Chippenham. Denis Robinson to update and organisational matters to be agreed.
  3. Up date on progress of request for upgrade of Marden Farm to Bentley Lane footpath
  4. Footpath audit.
  5. Route NCR403 towards Avebury.
  6. Beat the Street update
  7. AOB
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Improving Walking and Cycling in Calne Group – Update 26 April 2021

Our main focus over the last month has been to put pressure on the various bodies involved to push for the footpath up-grade for the path from Marden Farm to Bentley Lane to be a dual use walking and cycling path. Our reasoning is that it offers the villages of Stockley and Heddington, as well as several estates in the area, a route to and from Calne centre without needing to use the A4. The cost of making a footpath will be significant already, but making the additional improvements at the same time seems more cost effective than changing it at a later date. This has involved researching various documents that make reference to the path and also to make a proposal that could reduce some of the costs.

In addition, we have been discussing with the Calne Town Council possible locations for the Beat the Street project later this year and liaising with Wiltshire Council about a possible survey of users of the Cycle track to Chippenham. Over the next few weeks we will continue to look at the possibility of setting up a Calne based walking group to reduce journeys to other places for walking – we have secured two free places with Wiltshire for leader training.

We are supporting the audit of footpaths but are trying to ensure this is done to collect information in the most useful format to be used by the relevant organisations who want to make improvements.

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Walking and Cycling group meeting 22 February 2021

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Walking and Cycling group meeting 8 February 2021

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Meeting 14 January 2021

​Special Subject “Walking”

Agenda and papers

Blueprint for Change – Walking Cities

Facebook summary

Better walking in Calne – transcript of image

Following an interesting meeting on 14th January lots of issues were raised. For full details go to our website: https://www.sustainablecalne.org.uk

Contacts for anyone who wishes to find out more:

  • To help set up a new local walking group – cllrbennett@cllr.calne.gov.uk
  • To help with audit of local footpaths around Calne – david.songhurst@calnewithout-pc.gov.uk
  • To purchase and install your own air quality monitor – www.sustainablecalne.org.uk/scp-air-quality.html
  • To find local walks as described at meeting go to Sustainable Calne website – https://www.sustainablecalne.org.uk
  • To join an established walking group – Ramblers Association have several groups in Wiltshire but often this requires travelling https://www.ramblers.org.uk/go-walking/group-finder.aspx
  • To report an issue with pavements or overgrown branches etc My Wiltshire app or https://my.wiltshire.gov.uk/
  • TO link up with other walkers and join a challenge to walk a 1000km in 2021 search for https://www.walk1000miles.co.uk/ This is in conjunction with Country Walking Magazine. There is a Facebook page with local links as well.