Agenda
- Attendance and Apologies
- Survey of Cycle Track towards Chippenham. Denis Robinson to update and organisational matters to be agreed.
- Up date on progress of request for upgrade of Marden Farm to Bentley Lane footpath
- Footpath audit.
- Route NCR403 towards Avebury.
- Beat the Street update
- AOB
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.
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.