PA_213130 Park Lane Business Centre (Langham)
Planning application objection for the Park Lane Business Centre
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Created by catch // 1 thread
Planning application objection for the Park Lane Business Centre
Created by Roxanne (CEO) // 1 thread
A pilot of delivery robots may be coming to Cambridgeshire.
What are our views/policies about delivery robots?
What do we know about other places they have been trialled?
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
(Demolition of existing garages, relocation of existing sub-station within the site, and redevelopment to provide 8no. residential dwellings (Use Class C3) with associated infrastructure and landscaping)
Land Rear Of 5-17 New Square Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 1EY
Cambridge
Created by Joseph Tucker // 1 thread
A friend recently smashed her shoulder by cycling into the car trap which awaits anyone who misses the "Except guided buses" sign and then misses the "Car trap" sign, while heading from North Station towards Milton Rd.
In the dark, this is actually an easy mistake for an inexperienced rider, since
a) you believe that you're on a road when actually you're on a piece of Guided Busway
b) these signs can appear to belong to the cycle path, where they are mounted.
Created by Steven Moseley // 1 thread
Construction of 1no. 4 bedroom house with single garage.
Created by Steven Moseley // 1 thread
Development comprising 5 new dwellings, 1 with link attached garage, two with detached garages; incorporating access onto Great Tey Road, Little Tey.
Created by Steven Moseley // 1 thread
A proposed rural exceptions site of seven homes (resubmission of 201984)
Created by Steven Moseley // 1 thread
Outline application to refurbish the host house µLittle Glebe' from 3no. existing dwelling units to revert to a single dwelling house, anderect two new houses with a new access onto Spring Lane.
Created by Steven Moseley // 1 thread
Someone appears to have dumped large rocks and rubble into the pot holes in Daws lane. This might make the area more passable to cars that use it to access the allotments but poses a severe danger to cyclist given the size of the rocks, and that the area is poorly lit and frequently flooded.
I tried reporting the issue to the council but received the response:
The issue you raised with us is the responsibility of the landowner. Unfortunately we do not have records of who is responsible for this location and we are therefore unable to take any action.
Created by David Green // 2 threads
I run 1-day Wheel Building Courses in Cambridge
These are well-established intensive 1-day practical courses offered at 'level 1 (beginner) and level 2* (refresher/intermediate) level.
You learn how to build strong and durable bicycle wheels in a controlled, supportive environment. Group size is kept small to ensure a high student-teacher ratio. All equipment is provided, but you can bring your own components to build if you want to.
For fully information, dates and booking details please visit https://www.cambridgewheelbuilding.co.uk/
* dependent on demand.
Created by Steven Moseley // 1 thread
Erection 3No. Commercial Units (Class E) and car parking.
Created by Steven Moseley // 1 thread
An application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses (Class C3), and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion.
Created by Steven Moseley // 1 thread
Change of Use from an existing Guest House to a House of Multiple Occupancy (HMO)
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
Application reference & documents: 21/04952/FUL
Erection of new 2nd floor to provide two new dwelling units with balconies.
208 - 208A Cherry Hinton Road Cambridge CB1 7AW
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
Change of use from residential (C3) to 6bed HMO for 6 persons (sui generis).
5 Britten Place Cambridge CB1 3TS
Cambridge
Application reference : 21/04935/FUL
Response to planning application for Lodge Lane business park expansion
https://www.ensembling.com/269152
Created by Jean Dollimore // 1 thread
A set of temporary measures was implemented in September 2020 with a view to reducing through traffic in Arlington Road and the surrounding streets. Further measures were added later to make the scheme more effective.
Camden reports the following changes in the local area:
- a 15% increase in cycle volumes
- 43% decrease in motor traffic
- 15% decrease in traffic-related collisions
Camden is consulting on making all of these measures permanent with the following enhancements:
Jamestown Road: restriction on eastbound motor vehicles. Replace the planter with a traffic island
Inverness Street: no access for motor vehicles to Arlington Road. Replace the planters with traffic islands and widen the footway outside Cavendish School. NOTE: At our meeting on Monday’ 15th Nov, it was suggested we should ask for a School Street for Cavendish School.
Buck Street: no way in and out for motor vehicles from Kentish Town Road
Arlington Road (south of junction of Delancey Street): restriction on northbound motor vehicles. Add a traffic island and greening, raise carriageway.
Mornington Street: no way in and out for motor vehicles at the junction with Albert Street
Albert Street: no way in and out for motor vehicles at the junction with Mornington Place. Replace planters with removable bollards
Mornington Place: no way in and out for motor vehicles at the junction with Clarkson Row/Mornington Terrace. Replace planters with removable bollards. New tree and planting on Mornington Street. New Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS) on Clarkson Row
New junction designs and other changes
Delancey Street @ Albert Street - remove the right turn lane (from Albert Street) and build out the footway. NOTE: the original Delancey-Pratt scheme indicated the entry to a new contraflow cycle here. We should aim to keep that.
Delancey Street @Arlington Road Raise the junction.
Parkway Cycle Hire Station: move to the southern corner of Albert Street.
Parkway junction with Arlington Road: lengthen the feeder lane on Parkway. NOTE (as suggested at our meeting on 15th) this cycle lane should extend over the space occupied by the cycle hire station.
Parkway junction with Albert Street: double yellow lines
Parkway junction with Arlington Road: widen eastern footway to north of junction and remove two parking spaces.
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
Demolition of existing garage and erection of two 3-bed semi-detached houses on 2.5 floors with car and cycle parking and bin storage on land adjacent No 1 Greville Road, Cambridge
Land Adj 1 Greville Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3QJ
Cambridge
Application reference : 21/04756/FUL
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
Conversion of existing house to form 2 studio flats.
84 Ramsden Square Cambridge CB4 2BL
Cambridge
Application reference : 21/04865/FUL
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
Erection of 2no. dwellings following demolition of existing bungalow
200 Perne Road Cambridge CB1 3NX
Cambridge
Application reference : 21/04797/FUL
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
21/04769/FUL | Two storey side extension to create a one bedroom, a two bedroom dwelling and a detached two bedroom dwelling in the garden. | 3 Forest Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 9JA
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
Convert and extend existing garage to rear to provide 1no. 1bed studio dwelling.Proposed dwelling with have its own parking bay and rear garden while maintaining a rear garden for the existing dwelling (No.11) with roadside parking to the front of the existing dwelling. proposed dwelling to meet minimum standards. neighbouring approved scheme on same build line No. 1 Latimer Close.
11 Peverel Close Cambridge CB5 8RW
Cambridge
Application reference : 21/04757/OUT
Created by Rosamund Humphrey (Admin Officer) // 1 thread
First floor and single storey rear extensions of existing bungalow to create 3no. flats.
538 Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8LL
Cambridge
Application reference : 21/04852/FUL
Created by Jean Dollimore // 1 thread
Following a fatality at this junction in August Camden Council installed a number of temporary changes to the junction in October.
This consultation concerns some more radical permanent changes
The proposals include:
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Created by Rosalind Lund // 1 thread
further to the piece in newsletter 128, I wonder if any thought has been given to the difficulty of turning right into Emmanuel Street if you are coming towards the town centre from St Andrew's Street? We go fairly often to the Arts Cinema and this is the obvious way for us to go home, but it is impossible to turn right on the correct side of the bollard at present as it is designed only for left turning cycles coming out of town. There is, however, nothing to suggest that such a right turn is illegal.
Created by Shaun McDonald // 0 threads
The entrance to Dock Street should be turned into a continuous footway with pedestrian and cyclist priority over turning vehicles akin to this Danish junction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcnmLU1ClTo
This would improve sight lines for pedestrians too as the dropped kerbs are away from the junction, and it would also go with the pedestrian desire line as many tend to cross closer to the junction than the dropped kerbs. It would also slow down the vehicles entering the narrow street.
Martin Lucas-Smith // 1 thread
There's a very poor dogleg right-angle with barriers at the entrance/exit from the West Cambridge site to Clerk Maxwell Road.
This should be turned into a wide splay with good visibility.
Martin Lucas-Smith // 3 threads
Elizabeth Way is wide. Currently cycling is permitted on the pavements.
This should be changed to have dutch-style cycle tracks, achieved by narrowing the road slightly and narrowing the pavements (which are very wide and not heavily trafficked, so this would not disadvantage pedestrians).
This would give a safer cycling environment, and improve the pedestrian experience.
Martin Lucas-Smith // 10 threads
Milton Road, like other main roads in the city, is a mix of typically bad bits of cycle infrastructure. There is considerable scope, possibly within the City Deal funding, to rework the whole streetscape to Dutch standards.
Meeting with Leeds City Council to discuss possible remedial works due to high casualty rates.
Created by Katja Leyendecker // 1 thread
The (draft / emerging) 1Core Strategy seems to hint at a bus loop (Policy UC7) and a motor vehicle "ring road" (Policy UC9) too. It mentions pedestrian routes but there's no mention of cycle routes. See attached photo. (I didn't mark up the map, as it might become a tad too messy)
The "ring road" is just like Scott / esde84 described before http://newcycling.org/space4cycling/part2 (in comments)
The photo in the attachment is from "Newcastle Proposals Map" listed here http://onecorestrategyng-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/examination_library (not sure how long thi link will stay live, link rot may happen)
Created by Matthew // 2 threads
On 1 January 2026, historic routes in England that aren’t properly recorded will be lost to the public forever. We are looking for people to volunteer their time to help us identify and register these routes before it is too late.
Created by Shaun McDonald // 1 thread
It would be much safer to have cyclist priority on the slip roads here as is done in The Netherlands http://www.flickr.com/photos/smsm1/10046288016/ , or even the following example from Britain: http://www.cycling-embassy.org.uk/photos/good-cycling-facility-of-the-week/good-cycling-facility-of-the-week-14th-november-2013-0
The slip roads also need to be narrowed to slow motor vehicle speeds as does the turning radii of the roundabout.
Created by chdot // 1 thread
Longstanding issue about 'optimum' design, particularly to reduce conflict caused by vehicles turning from Teviot Pl due to signal phases.
Created by Mark A // 1 thread
A dropped kerb at this point would improve the route that people can take to cycle between Bear Flat and the city centre - making it easier to use Calton Gardens to avoid the section of footpath on the alternative via Holloway and St Marks Church.
Created by JonC // 0 threads
Our club (South Herts CTC) had to cross the A505 to get back into Hertfordshire on Sunday and we took a route between Litlington and Therfield which involved 500 m along the A505 and a right turn at the roundabout west of Royston.
I was quite surprised there was no cycle route to help cyclists here. It was a Sunday so at least there were fewer heavy vehicles than normal, but the speed of some cars coming up behind made it tricky to change lanes on a bike when turning right at the roundabout.
Since then I have studied other ways of crossing the A505 (using Google Streetview) and can't find any easy crossing points near Royston. I see it is the boundary between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, which complicates matters (although it looks like the A505 road is in Herts).
To the east, I've used the B1368 crossing at Flint Cross, which is also a nightmare. To the west the crossing at Slip End does at least have a central refuge. It seems little or no thought was given to cyclists when the A505 was constructed.
Created by HankChief // 0 threads
There needs to be a ramped access to the school grounds at this point to replace or bypass the 6 steps currently there.
This would not only improve access to the school but also improve connection between the East Craigs Path Network and North Gyle and the only toucan crossing on the A8 in Edinburgh on Dechmont Road.
Created by Roy Russell // 0 threads
This is a good location for "No Entry except Cycles".
The existing Traffic Order allows cycling past the No Entry sign.
The existing "cycle bypass" over the footway, which was rarely used, has been obstructed and largely destroyed by the adjacent building site.
The simplest solution is to add a supplementary plate "Except Cycles" under the No Entry sign.
Where the quite good segregated cycle lane joins The Ride, DfT advice was certainly NOT followed. As per DfT advice, when cycle lanes are merged with the carriageway, it should be done via a length of dropped kerb that is flush with the carriageway and the cycle lane shouldn't be joined at a 90 degree angle to the road.
Here, the cycle lane runs parallel to the road for a short distance before it loops around a large boulder specifically placed to force cyclists around and then finally joins the road at a 90 degree angle.
The kerb, though dropped, is far from flush and creates a risk for cyclists joining the track from the road.
This junction between the road and the track should be scrapped and redone according to DfT guidelines.
Created by Paul James // 0 threads
All the sideroads between Richmond Circus and Manor Circus are a danger to cyclists on the cycleway.
There is no warning to motorists that there will be crossing cyclists and the building angles make it hard to see if anything is coming.
Turning traffic from the A316 can have an obscured view of the cycleway due to foliage.
Decrease corner radii.
Make road hump more pronounced.
Make cycle surface colour continuous across roadway.
Add markings across roadway.
Add warning signage.
Move give way lines back to before cycleway or add additional give way lines.
Created by Simon Redding // 2 threads
The railway path from Sheffield down through Staveley & Poolsbrook stops at Arkwright Town. Since an opencast / landfill was south of this point, there is no trace of the former railway line to join to the trails at Sutton Spring Wood. This is an important local link.
Created by Matthew Phillips // 1 thread
The route on the east side of the A167 past Crossgate Moor and Framwellgate Moor crosses a number of roundabouts. The cycle-path leads you across the roads very close to the roundabout, via the central refuge in the middle of the road. Some of these roads have two lane entry to the roundabout. Crossing both lanes at once is tricky as you have to have an eye on whether the traffic is about to move out onto the roundabout. If you have a longer vehicle, such as a bus, waiting, then the route to the refuge is blocked. There are no road markings to warn motorists that cyclists might be expected.
The route is probably going to be improved as part of the Great North Cycleway. If these roundabouts are to be made safe enough for children to use, major alterations will be required. (The route goes past Durham Johnston School so should be available to children.) The route should cross further from the mouth of the roundabout, preferably on a different-coloured surface, maybe raised.
Created by SamGW // 1 thread
The Road between Great Wilbraham and Fulbourn is very well used by Cyclists, runners and walkers throughout the year. It is a single track road with a 60 MPH speed limit. A bicycle path here would encourage more people to cycle to Fulbourn and Cambridge. The path would significantly improve safety for cars, pedestrians and cyclists.
Created by Steve Crapper // 1 thread
This planning application is a revised version of a previous application that would have infilled the disused railway beneath Buttermilk lane bridge, preventing the disused railway becoming a vital new greenway between Bolsover and Poolsbrook country Park (extending the existing Stockley Trail)
The revised application has changed from infill to ramps, but this forces an unnecessary road crossing, when an underpass is perfectly feasible
please object on this basis if you are able . our campaign has created a Facebook page called "build the Stockley Extension"
Bolsover
Application reference : 18/00178/FUL
Created by Robin Heydon // 2 threads
The Landbeach Parish Council would like the bridgeway from Landbeach to Cambridge to be upgraded to a cycleway.
Martin Lucas-Smith // 4 threads
London Cycling Campaign has reorientated its policy towards a 'Go Dutch' approach.
This aims to learn from best practice abroad rather than continuing with the 'hierarchy of provision' that, in 20 years in the UK, has arguably failed to deliver meaningful change.
This is an overarching issue for conceptual discussion of this issue.
Created by Andrew Woodward // 0 threads
Pinch point outside Courtlands on Sheen Road. Despite resurfacing, pinch point has not been addressed. Because of the poor road layout vehicles frequently encroach into the cycle lane. At off peak times the wide road encourages speeding - vehicles often approach this pinch point at 40mph.
Created by Stephan Matthiesen // 1 thread
The chicane at the west end of the Magdalene Glen path interrupts the flow when going uphills, particularly unpleasant for people with weak knees. It also forces cyclists uphills often to stop and start when there are other people going through, as it's not wide enough to pass.
It doesn't serve any useful purpose at it is on the top of the slope where cyclists are very slow anyway. As it's uphills, there is little danger that e.g. kids run out onto the wide pavement of Duddingston Pk South. Cyclists from the West are slow at this point anyway as they turn into the path.
Created by Shaun McDonald // 0 threads
The traffic lights at Eagle Street were timed such that travelling eastbound you would always get caught at the second set unless you were extremely fast setting off. After discussions with the council and it brought up at the Sustainability Forum by Cllr Smart, it was fixed to increase the length of time that those lights were green, and was great as you always knew you could get through the second set of lights without having to wait unless you just went through the earlier ones just before they went red.
However over the past few days the signal timing has changed back to the older timing where the probability of getting through the second set is virtually nil. In an ideal world they would be phased such that the first set would go green, then the second set would go green several seconds later at the point where you would be arriving at them, rather than having them change to green almost at the same time.