{"id":529920,"date":"2026-04-14T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529920\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:34:07","slug":"bristol-15m-regional-cycling-hub-approved-despite-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529920\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol \u00a315m regional cycling hub approved despite concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans for a new \u00a315m regional cycling hub have been approved despite ongoing concerns from &#8220;disappointed&#8221; locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 50 Lawrence Weston residents <a href=\"https:\/\/pa.bristol.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&amp;keyVal=SWIL2KDNJYC00\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">objected to the, external<\/a> Bristol Regional Cycling Hub development saying it would only be accessible to paying customers, reduce access to green space and increase traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Pepper, chair of Lawrence Weston Planning Forum, described the scheme as a &#8220;poorly thought-out [and] expensive-to-access council vanity project&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Ed Plowden, chair of Bristol City&#8217;s transport and connectivity committee, said once funding is in place his team will address residents&#8217; concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for a new \u00a315m regional cycling hub have been approved despite ongoing concerns from &#8220;disappointed&#8221; locals. About&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-529920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529920","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=529920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}