Spaces for People £1.4m funding bid successful

East Lothian Council has successfully secured £1.4m of funding to introduce a series of temporary changes to streets to improve health and wellbeing so that everyone is able to move around their local area safely…

Feasibility Study & Options Appraisal Summary

Creating an off-road cycle route between Spott and Dunbar has potential for significant benefits for the communities in the area, including the opportunity for modal change of transport habits. Previous studies highlighted the inadequacy of…

Spaces for People – East Lothian £1.4m Bid Update

Posted on Jun 19th 2020 by East Lothian Council By the 31st May we had received around 3000 contributions to the Commonplace website suggesting or endorsing temporary measures to provide additional physical distancing space in public places. Thanks…

Road space reallocation to bicycles will bring traffic to a grinding halt

In reality, this is rare. Evidence shows that reallocating road space for cycling and walking can help to ease road congestion. Moreover there are additional benefits that can arise from reallocation, such as public realm…

Spott Path Successful Public Meeting

Over 30 people from the village of Spott and nearby attended last night’s public meeting. A number of apologies were also received. Participants had a chance to express initial views and concerns about the Community…

High hopes for local walking and cycling links: Public Meeting

Only two miles from the edge of Dunbar, but residents of Spott and other nearby villages have the huge barrier of not having any safe routes for cycling and walking.  Spott Community Association is seeking…

More support from East Lothian Council

Yes that will be fine to support as I know a massive percentage of kids in the area cycle/walk to school every day and having a improved facility to enable this is brilliant. Gareth Hill,…

Looking for your help

The first step will be to try and establish landownership around Spott Village, to see if there might be an alternative to cycling along the narrow Canongate. If you can help, please get in touch…

We did it!

We have been awarded the money to conduct a feasibility study to create a clear definition of the scope of the project, identify a potential route for the path, and write a brief for the…

In the beginning…

For several years Spott Village Association had been keen to find a solution to make it easier to walk or cycle into Dunbar. An article in their newsletter attracted lots of support and so, in…