Cycling and walking

Services

Riding an electric bike: the rules

Electric bikes meeting the EAPC regulations can be ridden on the road without being taxed, licensed or insured.
Active Travel England: planning application assessment toolkit

Allows local planning authorities to gather evidence and assess the active travel merits for a development proposal.
Apply to pedestrianise a highway

Local planning authorities can apply to remove vehicle rights on a highway to pedestrianise it.

The Highway Code
- Manual
- 10 April 2025
- Department for Transport
E-scooter trials: guidance for users
- Detailed guide
- 1 June 2024
- Department for Transport
Cycle to work scheme implementation guidance for employers
- Guidance
- 13 June 2019
- Department for Transport
Cycle infrastructure design (LTN 1/20)
- Guidance
- 27 July 2020
- Department for Transport
Active Travel England scheme review tools
- Guidance
- 9 April 2025
- Active Travel England

Third cycling and walking investment strategy
- 28 March 2025
- Department for Transport and Active Travel England
- Written statement
Almost £300 million to gear up new walking, wheeling and cycling schemes
- 12 February 2025
- Active Travel England
- Press release
Tariffs on non-folding e-bikes from China revoked
- 6 February 2025
- Trade Remedies Authority
- News story
Government guidelines to make school runs happier, healthier and greener
- 19 November 2024
- Department for Transport and Active Travel England
- Press release
New laws to be introduced to prosecute dangerous cyclists
- 15 May 2024
- Department for Transport
- News story

Travel to/from school by pupils in Northern Ireland 2023/24
- 8 May 2025
- Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
Active Travel Fund tranche 2: government response and peer review
- 9 January 2025
- Department for Transport
- Research
Active Travel Fund tranche 2: stage 2 process evaluation
- 9 January 2025
- Department for Transport
- Research
Active Travel Fund tranche 2: evaluation baseline
- 9 January 2025
- Department for Transport
- Research
Active Travel Fund tranche 2: stage 1 process evaluation
- 9 January 2025
- Department for Transport
- Research

Smarter regulation: proposed changes to legislation for electrically assisted pedal cycles
- 28 January 2025
- Department for Transport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 25 April 2024
New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cycling
- 15 May 2024
- Department for Transport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 November 2018
The second cycling and walking investment strategy
- 10 March 2023
- Department for Transport and Active Travel England
- Policy paper
Government response to the e-scooter trials evaluation report
- 15 December 2022
- Department for Transport
- Policy paper
Cycling and walking investment strategy report to Parliament 2022
- 6 July 2022
- Department for Transport
- Policy paper

Consolidated Active Travel Fund: local transport authority allocations
- 21 March 2025
- Department for Transport and Active Travel England
- Transparency
Active Travel Fund: local transport authority allocations
- 12 February 2025
- Active Travel England and Department for Transport
- Transparency
Active travel capability fund: local transport authority allocations
- 23 March 2024
- Department for Transport and Active Travel England
- Transparency
Active Travel England: framework document for working with Department for Transport
- 3 August 2023
- Department for Transport and Active Travel England
- Corporate report
Active travel social prescribing pilots: local authority allocations
- 7 July 2023
- Active Travel England
- Transparency