The Harrogate District Cycle Campaign Group
A new parallel crossing of Oatlands Drive was completed last week, giving priority to people walking and cycling on Slingsby Walk. Crossings of Wetherby Road and Oatlands Drive were to be built by 31st March 2024, but were repeatedly delayed.
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) has set out its Consolidated Active Travel Fund (CATF) bid to Active Travel England in a report to a council Executive meeting on 28th November 2025. The report says (para 3.2) that NYC’s allocation is £1,256,601,
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) is holding an informal consultation on a scheme to make Oatlands Drive 20mph. The scheme will require Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs). The consultation will run from 27th January to 16th February 2025. Documents detailing the proposals
Crossings of Oatlands Drive and Wetherby Road, for the benefit of people using Slingsby Walk, are to be delayed by another year according to a report in advance of a (cancelled) council meeting today. North Yorkshire Council (NYC) promised to
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) continues to fail to deliver meaningful on-the-ground improvements to Harrogate & Knaresborough’s cycle network. We started tracking progress on the council’s projects at the beginning of 2023, after a desperately disappointing 2022 in which NYC made
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) are holding a second consultation on crossings of Oatlands Drive and Wetherby Road. The original consultation was in March/April this year. Another consultation is needed because the preferred Stray Land Exchange option put forward in the
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) is consulting on crossings of Oatlands Drive and Wetherby Road, to benefit people walking and cycling on Slingsby Walk. The council promised to finish construction of these crossings by 31st March 2024, which is clearly not
2023 was another year of failure by North Yorkshire Council (NYC) on cycling. The council failed to meet all its own deadlines, and made no meaningful progress on any of its main cycling projects. Here is an overview of what
Consultants WSP carried out traffic surveys, and analysed the results of a Commonplace consultation that was held in Autumn 2022. They reported in February 2023. North Yorkshire Council (NYC) published the WSP report 10 months later, in December 2023. Traffic
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) held a consultation about active travel improvements in the Oatlands area in October and November 2022. Eight months on, the council still has not published the results. NYC say they intend to disclose the results in