Active travel refers to walking, scooting, cycling and park and stride
The Council promotes active travel as a healthy and sustainable means of transport.
Active travel maps
The active travel maps show:
- key locations including schools, local shops and green spaces
- how to get to them on foot, by bike or by public transport
- further information about walking and cycling routes in the local area
- a handy distance/time calculator
Download the maps for free below:
- Bodmin
- Camborne, Pool, Illogan and Redruth
- Falmouth and Penryn
- Hayle, St Erth and St Ives
- Newquay
- Saltash
- St Austell
- Truro
Local Cycling and Walking Plans
In 2020 the Government produced a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy. Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) feature in the strategy. They are a strategic approach to identifying cycling and walking improvements.
Use our interactive mapping to view LCWIP's
They enable a long-term approach to developing local cycling and walking networks. In turn, increasing the number of trips made on foot or by cycle.
The key outputs of LCWIPs are:
- a network plan for walking and cycling with preferred routes and core walking zones
- a prioritised programme of infrastructure improvements for future investment
- a report which sets out the context for the identified improvements and network
The LCWIP will be the basis of bids for funding to deliver these improvements.
You can read Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans below:
- Truro
- Newquay
- Falmouth
- Camborne, Pool, Illogan and Redruth
- Liskeard
- Helston: part 1, part 2, part 3
- St Austell: part 1, part 2, part 3 & part 4
- Wadebridge and Padstow: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 and part 4
- Penzance
See our current schemes below:
We have partnered with Beryl Bikes to deliver public e-bike hire schemes in:
- Falmouth and Penryn
- Newquay
- Penzance
- Truro
- Saltash
The scheme allows people to hire bikes from any bay in a town zone and return it to any bay within the same zone. The scheme provides a practical, active, low carbon way of getting around for everyday and leisure trips. The Saltash scheme operates alongside the Plymouth scheme so bikes can be used between the two places.
The easiest way to book an e-bike is to download the app on the Beryl website and get riding.
Wheels 2 Work Electric is a subsidised hire programme delivering 3 month eBike loans to residents of Cornwall.
Applications can be made via the Wheels 2 Work website
Wheels 2 Work: eBike and Scooter hire
Tel: 07970480807
Email: admin@wheels2worksouthwest.org
Web: www.wheels2worksouthwest.org
Cornwall Council is delivering 22 walking and cycling infrastructure schemes that help people walk and cycle for everyday journeys through the Shared Prosperity Fund. These schemes are distributed across Cornwall and provide new crossings, paths and other physical interventions that help people walk, wheel and cycle more. In addition, the fund has increased the number of bikes available for the Beryl branded public e-bike hire scheme and has completed a Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan for Wadebridge and Padstow.
Schemes are located at;
- Tregolls Road, Truro
- Rock Road, Pityme
- Camborne School
- Par Green
- Phernyssick Road, St Austell
- Trevarth, Redruth
- Quenchwell Road, Carnon Downs
- Treleigh School, Redruth
- New Road, Penzance
- Rosemellin School Street, Camborme
- Boilerworks Road, Camborne
- Nancegollan, Helston
- London Apprentice
- Bude cycle network
- Barrowfields, Newquay
- Mount Pleasant
- Antony
- Carkeel
- Longdowns, Penryn
- Newquay Tretherras
This project is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Cornwall Council has been chosen by Government as a Lead Authority for the fund and is responsible for monitoring the progress of projects funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
