{"id":308418,"date":"2025-12-10T07:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308418\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:14:07","slug":"south-east-councils-given-133m-for-cycling-and-walking-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308418\/","title":{"rendered":"South East councils given \u00a3133m for cycling and walking schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The full allocation breakdown has been published by Active Travel England, a government agency which wants more local journeys to be walked, wheeled or cycled by 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey County Council (SCC) has been awarded \u00a319,800,132, while Medway Council has received \u00a31,727,695. A total of \u00a325,924,411 has been allocated to Kent County Council (KCC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Sussex and East Sussex County Council have been given \u00a35,464,466 and \u00a33,376,793 respectively, with Brighton &amp; Hove City Council (BHCC) awarded \u00a34,538,302.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The funding has all been allocated over a four-year period. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Active Travel England has also ranked the local authorities according to their ability to deliver active travel schemes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Higher-rated councils, including SCC, KCC and BHCC, have received greater proportions of capital funding while the lower scoring authorities will be given training to improve this ability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a3626m national package is enough to deliver 500 miles (804km) of new and upgraded footpaths and cycle track across England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Gordon said this resulted in a &#8220;significantly lower&#8221; cost when compared with building new roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full allocation breakdown has been published by Active Travel England, a government agency which wants more local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-308418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}