Transport Campaign Group

County Transport Campaign Groups (TCGs) are required by CPRE National Office to lobby their local authorities to give greater emphasis in their Local Transport Plans to rural transport issues such as ‘Quiet Lanes’ and ‘Greenways’, speed control on country lanes and in villages and better quality, more flexible public transport. How much a TCG does beyond that is left to its discretion as long as it follows National Office policy lines (see the national web site at www.cpre.org.uk).

Over the years Cheshire Branch's TCG has involved itself in a wide range of transport issues and it fielded representatives on the multi-modal and roads-based studies set up by the Government and the Highways Agency following the Integrated Transport White Paper. Cheshire TCG has been an active member of the North West Transport Activists Roundtable (NW TAR) and has participated in the regional as well as the county and district planning processes. It has endeavoured to respond to all relevant transport consultation documents as well as seizing as many opportunities as possible to lobby from a CPRE perspective.

Some other recent submissions are available for downloading below:-

August 2004 - TCG submission on the Highways Agency's M6 (junctions 11a-20) Route Management Strategy. Click here.

October 2004 - Submission on the Department for Transport concept of an M6 Expressway. Click here.

November 2004 - Response to the 2006-2011 Cheshire Local Transport Plan Scoping Consultation. Click here.

April 2005 - The TCG submission on Cheshire County Council's 'Setting Out Our Proposals' consultation on its 2006-2011 Local Transport Plan can be seen by clicking here and its completed questionnaire is available here.

December 2005 - Cheshire TCG contributed to a joint submissions by CPRE's North West Regional Group and the North West Transport Activists Roundtable on the Highways Agency's M60 Route Management Strategy. Click here to see it.

December 2005/January 2006 - TCG response to Cheshire County Council's Bus Strategy Consultation. Click here.

If you would like to find out more about it and/or to become actively involved, please contact the Branch Office.