Orkney Active Travel Planning
CBA’s Active Travel Plan for Stenness and the adjacent World Heritage Site will make services easily accessible on foot and by bicycle helping to reduce inequalities and create a more inclusive society.
CBA has been commissioned by Orkney Islands Council to develop an Active Travel Plan for Stenness and the adjacent World Heritage Site area to encourage people to make journeys by physically active means, such as walking to a shop or other community facility, walking the kids to school or cycling to work. CBA supported the Council in holding a public consultation event during April 2019 aimed at understanding how people in Stenness and the surrounding area currently use active travel methods, identifying what facilities could be developed in future to help them do this more often. Making services easily accessible on foot and by bicycle helps reduce inequalities and create a more inclusive society.
Councillor Graham Sinclair, Chair of the Council's Development and Infrastructure Committee, said: "The Committee recently approved a World Heritage Site Masterplan document [prepared by CBA] in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland and also agreed to undertake a feasibility study to look at active and sustainable travel options in the World Heritage Site. By investing in walking and cycling we can not only stimulate local economic development in our rural areas but also support positive benefits for public health and wellbeing. Active travel is an important means of building physical activity into our daily routines, also improving air quality and mental health - and this plan is the first step towards that."