{"id":808384,"date":"2026-10-20T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808384\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:36:09","slug":"richmond-bike-park-opens-after-mums-two-year-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808384\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Bike Park opens after mum&#8217;s two-year campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A mother&#8217;s dream of creating a space where her children and others can ride their bikes has become a reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than two years after Louise Raine came up with the idea, Richmond Bike Park welcomed its first visitors when it opened at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project has attracted significant financial backing from the likes of the National Lottery, Sport England, the York &amp; North Yorkshire Combined Authority, Harmony Energy and Broadacres Housing Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mum-of-three said the response from the community had been &#8220;a bit overwhelming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opening marks the culmination of two-and-a-half years of fundraising, planning and hard work by volunteers, businesses and supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raine launched a campaign for the park in Richmond as she had to travel for 45 minutes to find a suitable facility for her three children to use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The free-to-use park, which is a network of graded bike trails built in fields off Green Howards Road, was granted planning permission by North Yorkshire Council in August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother&#8217;s dream of creating a space where her children and others can ride their bikes has become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808384","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\/808384","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=808384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}