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APPGCW announce virtual meeting to discuss Planning White Paper and its impact on active travel

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APPGCW announce virtual meeting to discuss Planning White Paper and its impact on active travel

Posted on 16 Feb 2021

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking (APPGCW) have an upcoming virtual meeting to discuss the Planning White Paper and its impact on active travel.

The meeting will take place on Friday 26th February at 10am will be co-chaired by Ruth Cadbury MP (Labour) and Selaine Saxby MP (Conservative).

Confirmed speakers include:

Lynda Addison OBE - Transport Planning Society
Lynda is Chair of the Sustainable Transport Panel of CIHT, was until the 21st March 2019 the Chair of the Transport Planning Society as well as an Adviser to The Campaign for Better Transport.

James Cullimore - Conservative Environment Network
The Conservative Environment Network is the forum for conservatives who support conservation and decarbonisation.

Christopher Martin - Urban Movement
Chris is Co-Founder and Director of Urban Strategy at Urban Movement, and a fully qualified Urban Designer and Planner, with over 15 years' experience leading complex urban projects - applying his expertise to public realm, streets and transport.

Future meetings are scheduled as below, and further information will be sent closer to these dates.

School Streets - 12th March
E-scooters - 23rd April

 

Register to attend

All ACT members are invited to join in on the APPGCW webinars to learn more about each issue. Please contact the ACT if you would like to join in on the above webinar and we will pass along the the login details.

For all APPGCW Parliamentary Monitoring updates visit out website here.

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