Changes to Sustrans Places for Everyone funding programme

Crispin Hayes, Whole Cycle Ltd,  lead consultant to the Killearn Active Travel projects gives us his reaction to the changes in funding by Transport Scotland that will affect this and other active path community projects  In February this year, Transport Scotland announced a decision to wind up the Sustrans Places for Everyone funding programme over the nextContinue reading “Changes to Sustrans Places for Everyone funding programme”

My fietsen! Bike stories: Sonja from Whole Cycle

Sonja Potjewijd, from the Netherlands is one of the consultants who has been working on Killearn Active Travel path projects. She explains how cycling has always been part of her life, and now living in Scotland she is working to help develop a better cycling awareness and infrastructure here. I have so many wonderful memoriesContinue reading “My fietsen! Bike stories: Sonja from Whole Cycle”

Project Update

Project update! We are delighted to announce that we have completed Stage 2 of the Killearn Active Travel Project. This involved, among other things, creating concept designs for the proposed paths and liaising with landowners. We have submitted our application for the next stage of funding for Stages 3-4 to Sustrans, and we will findContinue reading “Project Update”

Killearn Active Travel Paths Project Update

We started 2024 on the Killearn Active Travel Path Project by welcoming some new faces to the working group.  They will be helping progress both this and the Killearn to Balfron Active Path. We’d like to thank Kenneth Alexander who is retiring from the Killearn to Balfron project, for all his hard work. What isContinue reading “Killearn Active Travel Paths Project Update”

Funding for walking, cycling and wheeling

Exciting news! Killearn Community Futures Company is very pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant through Places for Everyone, an active travel infrastructure programme funded by the Scottish Government and administered by Sustrans, to create better walking, cycling and wheeling infrastructure in wider Killearn to foster more active travel and liveable neighbourhoods.Continue reading “Funding for walking, cycling and wheeling”