FAQs

Alongside gathering ideas from local residents, we would welcome your input into the creation of an LCWIP for Windsor and Maidenhead to ensure that the council is in the strongest position to make the case for future funding for walking and cycling projects that will have maximum benefit for the local community. Whilst our engagement activities with stakeholders, residents and local Cllrs will help identify improvements across the borough which will help in the development of the LCWIP it should be noted that the borough will be developing the LCWIP in accordance with the Department for Transport Guidance (DfT), inclusive of the following documents:

• Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans – Technical Guidance for Local Authorities, DfT, April 2017 and;
• LTN1/20 Cycle Infrastructure Design, DfT, July 2020.

An important part of the process in addition to engagement is prioritising any walking and cycling infrastructure improvements in the short, medium and long term. DfT guidance states that priority should normally be given to improvements that are most likely to have the greatest impact on increasing the number of people who choose to walk and cycle. However other factors will come into play that will need to be considered when prioritising which schemes are taken forward such as the following (list not exhaustive):

• Effectiveness – assessment of the increase in trips in walking and cycling, population of those that will directly benefit from the improvement, improvement in road safety, impact on other road users, impact on air quality and integration with other schemes;
• Policy – impacts of the improvements in the delivery of local and national policy objectives, importance of the improvements to target specific user groups and priority/importance as identified through the engagement process;
• Economic – cost of construction and maintenance, potential to attract funding from national Government as well as private sector funding;

Deliverability – scheme feasibility, public acceptability, dependency on other schemes, environmental constraints and political acceptability.