There are 3 or 4 meetings of the External Cycling Liaison Group every year, at County Hall, and I attend these whenever I can. They are always useful and we get updates on various developments in the county. Jeremy and I went along last Monday. From our point of view, the important issue that was discussed was of course PCL's proposed White Peak Loop, which is at the heart of the bid being made by the consortium which includes Peak Park and several local authorities and is led by Derbyshire CC. £12 million of DfT money is available to the national parks for developing cycling paths and facilities. The parks have till the end of April to make their bids; not all are expected to be successful.
There have been two recent and important meetings on this subject and these have been attended by representatives from Peak Cycle Links, Sustrans, DCC and Peak Park. The next of these meeting of the interested parties will be on 25 March. Sustrans will
be doing a critique of the various plans eventually submitted and will continue to act in an
advisory role after the successful bids are accepted.
We were told that the cycling network in the Park will be improved,
not only for tourists but for people who live and work there. There will
be a Cycling Festival 7-15 Sep 2013, at which there will a number of events (mentioned in an earlier post).
During this there will be camping provision at Thornbury Outdoor Centre. PCL will be running guided rides at this event.
Also relevant to us, we were informed that a route is
being investigated from the Erewash Valley Trail at Langley Mill to Cromford,
making use of the Cromford Canal towpath, which would be widened (but no time scale was given).
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