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
England’s councils given £626m for walking, wheeling and cycling schemes
The third cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS3)
Oxfordshire Active Travel page
This page explains what Active Travel is and the County Council’s plans for it.
OCC’s Active Travel strategy, LCWIPs and local progress
Local Transport and Connectivity Plan
This document sets out the County’s policy framework, with a total of 54 policy statements. It explains the Vision Zero approach for road safety (Policy 15) and the default 20 mph speed limit in residential, villages and retail areas (Policy 16). There is a also large emphasis on walking and cycling.
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 (This consultation now closed)
The Wallingford LCWIP Steering Group Meeting 12 February 2025 gives a good explanation of what a LCWIP is, and the national and local context.
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
Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans
Mend the Gap Access Improvement Report
Report published by Mend the Gap on the potential for access improvements in the Mend the Gap area
Unlocking access in the Gap – on two wheels
This article appeared in the May 2025 edition of the Goring Gap News
