Cycle plan gets the go-ahead
Carmarthenshire County Council is encouraging visitors to Prince Philip Hospital to cycle there.
The local authority has been granted planning permission to put up a new cycle shelter on land in front of the hospital in Dafen as part of its Safe Routes in the Community initiative promoted by the Welsh Assembly Government.
The scheme involves a new shelter over part of the existing cycle storage facility to the front of the hospital and the provision of a temporary staff changing facility and associated cycle lockers behind the hospital.
The new shelter is to provide a covered storage facility for visitors to the hospital with the existing facility being open to the elements and offering no weather protection to cyclists.
An officers’ report to today’s meeting of the county planning committee says: “Shelters of this nature are now becoming common place within the grounds of schools and colleges in the county and are reflective of the authority’s policy of encouraging more sustainable modes of transport.
“There is currently no covered cycle storage facility for visitors at the hospital and thus the new structure will significantly improve the quality of facilities available and encourage visitors to travel in a more sustainable manner.”
See earlier blog -
http://sirgarblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/cycle-to-llanelli-hospital-appeal.html
The local authority has been granted planning permission to put up a new cycle shelter on land in front of the hospital in Dafen as part of its Safe Routes in the Community initiative promoted by the Welsh Assembly Government.
The scheme involves a new shelter over part of the existing cycle storage facility to the front of the hospital and the provision of a temporary staff changing facility and associated cycle lockers behind the hospital.
The new shelter is to provide a covered storage facility for visitors to the hospital with the existing facility being open to the elements and offering no weather protection to cyclists.
An officers’ report to today’s meeting of the county planning committee says: “Shelters of this nature are now becoming common place within the grounds of schools and colleges in the county and are reflective of the authority’s policy of encouraging more sustainable modes of transport.
“There is currently no covered cycle storage facility for visitors at the hospital and thus the new structure will significantly improve the quality of facilities available and encourage visitors to travel in a more sustainable manner.”
See earlier blog -
http://sirgarblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/cycle-to-llanelli-hospital-appeal.html
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