CYCLEWAYS SPRING EVENT

You are invited to the CYCLEWAYS Spring event to be help on Friday 30th March starting at 7pm, at Hill Close Gardens in Warwick. The venue is the Hill Close Centre recently built to be a visitor’s centre for the gardens which are going to be open to the public from Easter. So why not take this once in a lifetime chance to see the development before it is officially opened and to come and hear about cycling developments in the area.

The speakers will include Colin Ward, who chairs the K2L campaign and Nick Hillard, Warwick University's first Environment Officer.

K2L is the campaign for an off-road cycle route along the A452 between Leamington and Kenilworth. Colin will reflect on the progress achieved by the campaign in the three years since it was founded, and the plans for gaining more support for a proposal that has the potential to make cycle commuting possible along an extremely busy road.

Nick is Warwick University's first Environment Officer. He was appointed last year, with the brief of reducing the University's environmental footprint, in other words, energy consumption, waste and traffic congestion. Warwick is one of the first institutions to measure its carbon footprint, as part of this process. Before joining Warwick, Nick worked for an environmental consultancy.

Nick lists his hobbies as "extreme gardening, rugby and walking" but he also commutes to the University by bike and he has already introduced measures to encourage more cycling by University staff.

His theme on 30th March will be "Warwick and the environment".

There will be an opportunity to ask questions and to contribute to ideas for the forthcoming year that you feel Cycleways should be involved in.

Hill Close Victorian Gardens

Hill Close Gardens lie behind the houses of Linen Street in Warwick. They are a rare survival of something which was very common in the last century: a group of hedged gardens, just outside the built-up area. They were used and enjoyed by the shopkeepers and professional people who lived over their businesses in the town centre and so had little garden around their homes.

Directions

Approach from Friars Street, turning right into the old racecourse entrance, now called Bread & Meat Close. Of course, no one will be coming by car, but if you are there is lots of free parking in the evenings.