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We welcome the proposal in the consultation to introduce permitted development rights in multiple settings for storage facilities for bikes in the front garden area of properties.

Making it easier to install or erect cycle storage will increase opportunities for safe and secure bike storage and provide a significant incentive to encourage cycling.

The future of Transport in Glasgow should be focused on making it easier to walk, cycle and wheel in the city, with active travel being the natural choice for short journeys. There should also be a focus on promoting modal integration within and between active and sustainable modes (public transport) to enable truly sustainable door-to-door journeys.

Focus should be on the right development in the right place, rather than to allow development at any cost. When identifying land for housing supply, development should be directed to the re-use or re-development of brownfield land and there must be a firm presumption against development of greenfield sites.

Active travel has an important role to play in improving rural connectivity, and for delivering a green transition. In response to the current pandemic, there is a need to ensure that transport infrastructure decision-making and spending takes into account the need to support physical distancing for active travel and public transport, both now and in response to future pandemics.

The review of the Highway Code aims to improve road safety for people on bikes, pedestrians and horse riders.

Cycling Scotland's response to the Scotland’s Towns Partnership Towns Review focuses on the multiple benefits of prioritising developments for active travel.

The Social Housing Partnership Fund offers grants to social housing providers to make it easier for residents to walk and cycle. This report provides findings and impact of the fund. 

Investment in coherent networks of safe, easy to access segregated cycling infrastructure is needed to support the modal shift to active travel.

Almost 200 organisations run access to bikes schemes in Scotland, which include fleets of pool bikes, bike loans for events, public bike hire, cycle to work schemes and bike recycling schemes. Find out more in our 2020 report. 

Executive summary, including findings and recommendations, from our 2020 access to bikes report. 

Cycling and active travel has a key role in achieving a Just Transition to net-zero emissions and can help to address the overwhelming challenges of the climate emergency.

Measuring the levels of cycling across Scotland during the pandemic.