Fowlmere, Foxton and Melbourn Active Travel Survey

Overview

Cambridgeshire County Council strives to create a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire for all residents and communities. The county’s ambitions include making travel across the county safer and more environmentally sustainable and helping residents live healthier, more independent lives. An Active Travel Strategy was created to support this ambition, enabling and encouraging a shift away from journeys made by private car. 

Active travel refers to walking, wheeling and cycling. Including the use of mobility aids such as wheelchairs and pushchairs as well as scooters and adapted cycles. 

Two routes have been identified for opportunities to improve active travel conditions as they provide links between rural villages to access key amenities such as a GP surgery, library, railway station and shops. These include Fowlmere Road/Mill Road, linking Fowlmere and Melbourn, and Fowlmere Road, linking Fowlmere and Foxton.

We are carrying out this survey to understand how local residents currently use the routes, how residents would like to use the routes and whether any changes would increase use from an active travel perspective, whilst also facilitating improved safety for all.

If you would like to find out more about active travel in Cambridgeshire and what we have delivered for similar schemes, please visit our website at Active Travel in Cambridgeshire | Cambridgeshire County Council.

GDPR statement: The purpose of this engagement survey is as described above and will help us form an evidence base for local active travel demand. You do not need to give us any personal information if you do not wish to. Please do not enter information which identifies you or someone else in any free text boxes.

We may share your response and information with our consultants or our partners who may be working on this consultation and with the council analysis team. It will only be used for this reason and for no other. We will not publish any personal details you do give us. We may publish your response in public reports but we will remove any information which may identify you or someone else. Personal data will be held securely, in accordance with data protection legislation. We will only store it for 12 months after the consultation results have been analysed and the consultation report published. If you would like further information then please contact activetravel@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

Why your views matter

The survey responses will indicate whether there is local support for active travel interventions between Fowlmere and Melbourn, and Fowlmere and Foxton. This will enable us to consider further scheme development and then apply for funding when it becomes available.