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  1. Found this on the EDP website:

    A bicycle could be offered free with every home on one of the largest
    housing developments proposed for Norfolk in the next 10 years, in a
    pioneering bid to tackle traffic congestion.

    Norwich city councillors are insisting on the condition from any developer
    interested in the 34-acre, 1100-home Three Score site at Bowthorpe, near
    Norwich.

    The innovative move, which would also include storage space for the cycles
    at each home, is the latest bid to encourage residents to leave their cars
    at home and opt for environmentally-friendly transport.

    Judith Lubbock, non-executive member for transport at the city council,
    said: "We've got a planning design brief out where the developers will have
    to provide a cycle for every dwelling.

    "There will also be an obligation on the developer to provide a storage area
    for every dwelling on that site."

    She added: "When you are the landowner and the planning authority, it gives
    you the opportunity to decide what goes on there. It fits in nicely with our
    desire to encourage a modal shift from the private car to people using
    cycles."

    Makes a change from so much negative content posted here.

  2. On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:39:53 +0100, "vernon" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    Norwich city councillors are insisting on the condition from any developer
    interested in the 34-acre, 1100-home Three Score site at Bowthorpe, near
    Norwich.

    The innovative move, which would also include storage space for the cycles
    at each home, is the latest bid to encourage residents to leave their cars
    at home and opt for environmentally-friendly transport.

    Quoted message said:

    Makes a change from so much negative content posted here.

    I agree, it does sound promising, but it will all be for nothing
    unless the planning department have thought it through and taken some
    proper advice. That's not to say they haven't, of course, this is just
    a bit of friendly PR that doesn't have room for details, but councils
    have a habit of paying lip service to cycling provision and I do hope
    that isn't the case here.

    If the developers are allowed to buy a thousand 40 quid Sterling House
    "MTB" specials, and the planners aren't focused when considering the
    road layout and cycling facilities for the development, then all that
    will happen is 995 more bikes will spend three years rusting in sheds
    and then go to the local tip.

    It's a good idea, but the devil is in the detail.

    "Bob"
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