Active Travel

Active Travel means making journeys in physically active ways – like walking, wheeling (using a wheelchair or mobility aid), cycling, or scootering. Here are some key resources about Active Travel that affect the Goring Gap area.

Almost £300m to gear up new walking, wheeling and cycling schemes

Active Travel England’s press release on the funding package announced by the government on 12 February 2025

The third cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS3)

The government’s consultation on its Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy for 2025 – 2030. Open for comments until 15 December 2025. A summary of responses and the government’s response to them should be published here in due course.

Oxfordshire Active Travel page

OCC’s Active Travel strategy, LCWIPs and local progress

Strategic Active Travel Network (SATN)

The Strategic Active Travel Network (SATN) is a proposal for a countywide Active Travel network of walking and cycling routes.

Towns in Oxfordshire have Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs), creating a network of walking and cycling routes within them. SATN will connect these networks, enabling longer distance walking and cycling across the county. Some of these routes already exist, others are proposed.

Strategic Active Travel Network (SATN) Project Report March 2004.
The aim is that “SATN will help to combine the LCWIP outputs and identify important strategic routes in more rural locations in the county where LCWIPs are unlikely to be developed.”

The Strategic Active Travel Network was approved on 25 April 2024. Wallingford to Goring has been included as a strategic link in the network as a result of submissions during the consultation phase. The report recommended that the council should “consider SATN as an LCWIP to ensure it has the same material impact on future planning decisions as the County’s other LCWIPs.”

Wallingford Area Local Cycling
and Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP)

Wallingford LCWIP Consultation web page

The Wallingford LCWIP Steering Group Meeting 12 February 2025 gives a good explanation of what a LCWIP is, and the national and local context.

Download LCWIP presentation

The draft Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan was published on 19 November 2005 and open for comments until 7 January 2026. To comment, go to the Wallingford LCWIP Engagement web page