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Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils are committed to helping our residents and visitors make sustainable journeys. These journeys benefit our environment, as well as our physical and mental health and wellbeing.
To learn more about our goals - and how we will work to achieve them - please read our vision document:
Read our Vision for Sustainable Travel
Following an extensive community consultation in 2021, the Councils have produced a Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan.
This plan identifies the improvements we wish to make to help our residents and visitors feel safe and comfortable, whilst walking or cycling around our districts. We will work with partners to seek funding for - and the delivery of - these improvements.
You can read more information about the plan, how it was developed and how we hope to implement it via the link below:
Read our Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan methodology report
You can read more information about the list of improvements - which have been broken down into 'schemes' - via the links below:
Alternatively these schemes are available in alternative PDF formats:
The schemes are also displayed via the interactive map below:
Key:
The list of improvements and map of schemes - and how they have been prioritised - remain a dynamic part of our Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan. Therefore, the plan will be reviewed regularly and is subject to changes and amendments.
If you come across a new or urgent issue with existing cycling or walking infrastructure, please report a highways issue via Suffolk County Council's Highways Reporting Tool.
Such issues may include:
For more information about walking and cycling in the districts, please access the following links:
As part of our work to encourage more walking and wheeling, we regularly take part in - or share - national active travel campaigns, like Cycling UK's Big Bike Revival. We also run community engagement events, which focus on sustainable travel as a topic.
We have worked in partnership with Suffolk County Council, and Performance in Education, to deliver interactive, theatrical performances in primary schools. These performances encourage pupils and parents to travel to school more sustainably, and they raise awareness of the environmental benefits of doing so - which include reducing carbon emissions, and improving local air quality.
For more information about these performances, please access the following document:
Abbie Ayre and the Shed of Science (tour evaluation report)
Whilst we do not operate, or hold contracts for, passenger transport, we are committed to supporting the needs of our residents and visitors. Wherever possible, we support transport delivery partners so that they can do this.
Because of this, we are an engaged, committed key stakeholder in the:
For more information about local passenger transport (including services and timetables), please visit Suffolk on Board's website.
To find out about rural community transport provision in your area - and to book a journey - please visit Suffolk on Board's Connecting Communities webpage.