Colchester City Council Preferred Options Local Plan Regulation 18 Consultation 2025

Comment

Representation ID: 14396

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

EIGHT ASH GREEN: village needs a spine cycle route similar to that which is being proposed for Great Horkesley.

Consideration should be given to tying in the village to the Colchester cycle network via Halstead Road.

Improved walking/cycling connections are needed with Stane Park. More use should be made of the Lucy Lane tunnel – it should be well signed and central to improvement schemes.

See our observations on reducing the attractiveness of country lanes for motor vehicle drivers and stopping rat runs.

Comment

Representation ID: 14397

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

EIGHT ASH GREEN The village needs a spine cycle route similar to that which is being proposed for Great Horkesley.

Consideration should be given to tying in the village to the Colchester cycle network via Halstead Road.

Improved walking/cycling connections are needed with Stane Park. More use should be made of the Lucy Lane tunnel – it should be well signed and central to improvement schemes.

See our observations on reducing the attractiveness of country lanes for motor vehicle drivers and stopping rat runs.

Comment

Representation ID: 14398

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

EIGHT ASH GREEN The village needs a spine cycle route similar to that which is being proposed for Great Horkesley.

Consideration should be given to tying in the village to the Colchester cycle network via Halstead Road.

Improved walking/cycling connections are needed with Stane Park. More use should be made of the Lucy Lane tunnel – it should be well signed and central to improvement schemes.

See our observations on reducing the attractiveness of country lanes for motor vehicle drivers and stopping rat runs.

Comment

Representation ID: 14399

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

Planners should be aware of the greenwaynorthessex.org, a planned cycle route from Halstead to Kelvedon via Earls Colne and Coggeshall. The route is currently entirely within the Braintree district but opportunities for funding and connecting to this spine route from the villages should be considered (XB). See our observations on reducing the attractiveness of country lanes for motor vehicle drivers and stopping rat runs.

Comment

Representation ID: 14400

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

Planners should be aware of the greenwaynorthessex.org, a planned cycle route from Halstead to Kelvedon via Earls Colne and Coggeshall. The route is currently entirely within the Braintree district but opportunities for funding and connecting to this spine route from the village should be considered ). See our observations on reducing the attractiveness of country lanes for motor vehicle drivers and stopping rat runs.

Comment

Representation ID: 14401

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

Fordham: The village needs safe connections to Wormingford and Eight Ash Green, perhaps making use of the Hemp’s Green road and bridleways. See our observations on reducing the attractiveness of country lanes for motor vehicle drivers and stopping rat runs.

Comment

Representation ID: 14402

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

The village needs cycle connections to Great Horkesley, provideing a link to the Horkesley route to Trinity School.
A cycle link over the A12, either by altering the existing road bridge or a new cycle/foot bridge on the line of Footpath 39.
Routes southwards and eastwards should include 1) into Westhouse Wood, crossing Baker’s Lane and tying into the park and Apprentice Drive; 2) towards Chesterwell cutting across the north of the golf course and/or 3 the creation of a cycleway to the present Beauty at the Bay store on Bergholt Road, Colchester, giving access to Chesterwell and Trinity School.

Comment

Representation ID: 14403

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

The village needs cycle connections to Great Horkesley, provideing a link to the Horkesley route to Trinity School.
A cycle link over the A12, either by altering the existing road bridge or a new cycle/foot bridge on the line of Footpath 39.
Routes southwards and eastwards should include 1) into Westhouse Wood, crossing Baker’s Lane and tying into the park and Apprentice Drive; 2) towards Chesterwell cutting across the north of the golf course and/or 3 the creation of a cycleway to the present Beauty at the Bay store on Bergholt Road, Colchester, giving access to Chesterwell and Trinity School.

Comment

Representation ID: 14404

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

The village needs cycle connections to Great Horkesley, provideing a link to the Horkesley route to Trinity School.
A cycle link over the A12, either by altering the existing road bridge or a new cycle/foot bridge on the line of Footpath 39.
Routes southwards and eastwards should include 1) into Westhouse Wood, crossing Baker’s Lane and tying into the park and Apprentice Drive; 2) towards Chesterwell cutting across the north of the golf course and/or 3 the creation of a cycleway to the present Beauty at the Bay store on Bergholt Road, Colchester, giving access to Chesterwell and Trinity School.

Comment

Representation ID: 14405

Received: 13/01/2026

Respondent: Colchester Cycle Campaign

The village needs cycle connections to Great Horkesley, provideing a link to the Horkesley route to Trinity School.
A cycle link over the A12, either by altering the existing road bridge or a new cycle/foot bridge on the line of Footpath 39.
Routes southwards and eastwards should include 1) into Westhouse Wood, crossing Baker’s Lane and tying into the park and Apprentice Drive; 2) towards Chesterwell cutting across the north of the golf course and/or 3 the creation of a cycleway to the present Beauty at the Bay store on Bergholt Road, Colchester, giving access to Chesterwell and Trinity School.