Beckenham Park - some want to hear your opinions ..........

[Charliecod]

This has been received from I assume Lewisham Council 

Hi,

We are producing a feasibility study into the creation of bike trails at Beckenham Place Park.

We are looking for comments and feedback from the local cycling community to reinforce (or negate) the case for potential cycle trails, including bike skills area and pump track.
Your members may wish to comment on:

Whether as cyclists, they would use these cycle facilities and would they bring their families?
Whether as a club, you would consider using the facilities for coaching and events
Whether in their opinion, these new facilities would attract more of the local population to get on a bike?
If/how they would like to be involved at Beckenham Place Park and how else they may like to see the site used in the future
And of course any other comments are also very welcome!
We don't wish to take up a lot of your members time so this is intended as an informal discussion with some overall conclusions. 


Keep it positive please, to have local MTB skills area and pump track would be a fantastic boon and great area to do some decent MTB/CX ish training. 

Charlie 

[mick vance]

hi Charlie. will you collate replies, or is there a link/address to send comment to?

mick v

[James Malone]

Digging around on the Lewisham websit for the park you can see what they are proposing here: www.lewisham.gov.uk/inmyarea/regeneration/improvements-to-parks/BeckenhamPlacePark/Documents/BECK_Consultation%20Boards_1-7.pdf 

My concern is that it looks like they are proposing shared use routes. Without the trails being segregated from pedestrians then I'm not sure we would or even could use them for training/coaching. 

As for events if there's a chance for another London cross race locally then I'd be bang up for that!

Loads more stuff about their plans here www.lewisham.gov.uk/inmyarea/regeneration/improvements-to-parks/BeckenhamPlacePark/Pages/default.aspx

[Charliecod]

Mick - you're well ahead of me on that one - just post up your thoughts and we can see what's best later.

[mick vance]

Loosely related to this, Michael Humphries (Beastway MTB organiser and promoter of the cross race held in BPP over Christmas) is arranging a meeting at the end of March to listen/discuss plans for the future cycling activities in BPP. Check out his facebook group for details.