Havering Council Active Travel Strategy

Overview

The Active Travel Strategy for Havering is an ambitious roadmap designed to revolutionise the way we move around our community over the next 15 years. By prioritising active travel - walking, cycling, and wheeling - we aim to create a healthier, more connected, and vibrant borough.

Alongside presenting our vision, the strategy outlines our comprehensive goals, current work, areas of action by active travel theme and our delivery approach.  You can find the strategy and an executive summary in our 'Related' section below.

For each area of action, we have listed measures that we aim to introduce to achieve our vision by 2041. Areas of action include:

• Physical measures such as creating an active travel network, mobility hubs and upgraded travel information
• Supporting measures such as traffic management, data collection and policy and design guidance
• Soft measures such as encouraging behaviour change, engagement and facilitating access to cycles and micro-mobility.

By prioritising active travel, we can improve air quality, reduce congestion, improve public health, boost the local economy, decrease social inequalities, reallocate road space for community uses and improve sense of belonging.

We recognise that changing travel habits can be challenging, but we are committed to working with our residents, businesses and partners to make active travel a realistic and attractive choice for most people.

Your input matters – we value your contribution to the consultation to shape the strategy according to Havering’s needs and aspirations.

Children and Young People

We have also launched a special version of our Active Travel Consultation, just for children and young people aged under 18, and up to age 25 with special educational needs.  Please visit Havering's main consultation page or click this link to take part.