Infrastructure, urban design and planning
We make it easier to walk, wheel and cycle by creating healthy, accessible and inspiring places
We transform urban areas into vibrant, enjoyable places
Based across the UK with the shared ethos and passion for active travel, we make it easier to walk, wheel and cycle by creating healthy, sociable, accessible and inspiring places with and for communities.
Our design and engineering team works across multiple scales, specialities, and spaces.
We excel in engaging with all stakeholders, ensuring that local residents and businesses feel a sense of ownership over their local environments and build strong community bonds.
We transform urban areas into vibrant, enjoyable places that enhance the overall quality of life, providing a sense of belonging and security for everyone.
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Designing routes and spaces
We design quieter, safer and more inclusive streets that enable walking, wheeling and cycling as everyday choices.
From low traffic neighbourhoods and school streets to greenways and placemaking, our integrated approach supports health and wellbeing, climate and inclusion goals, and stronger transport connectivity.
We create welcoming, people‑centred environments through measures such as pocket parks, safer crossings, active travel routes and child‑friendly spaces.
Working closely with communities, schools and local authorities, we deliver practical, scalable solutions that meet diverse local needs.
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Working with communities
We work directly with communities to shape streets and spaces that reflect local needs, priorities and lived experience.
Our collaborative approach brings together residents, schools, pupils, parents and local authorities to ensure designs are inclusive, accessible and widely supported.
By engaging early and throughout the process, we build trust and create solutions that people feel ownership of, from safer school streets to welcoming public spaces.
This community‑led approach helps deliver places that foster connection, improve everyday experiences and create a strong sense of belonging.
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Positive impact and guidance-led delivery
We deliver positive impact through evidence‑led design, robust guidance and active advocacy for healthier, more sustainable places.
Our work is guided by a vision of travel that supports wellbeing and equity, alongside our involvement in national planning reform through initiatives such as the Better Planning Coalition.
By integrating inclusivity, planning, construction, maintenance, legal processes and ecology, we help local authorities and professionals deliver routes and streets that work for everyone.
We design places that work for everyone
Our team of expert designers and planners is passionate about championing ambitious ideas that put people at the heart of the designs.
We work closely with communities and local authorities to create healthy, accessible places; offering evidence‑based guidance that supports confident, long‑term decision making.
Acting as a trusted critical friend, we provide strategic advice, training and practical tools to help you plan and deliver high‑quality, inclusive streets and spaces.
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Active travel infrastructure
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust can help you to identify and implement cost-effective, proven solutions that reduce car use and increase walking, wheeling and cycling.
We design places with green and blue infrastructure in mind to promote biodiversity, sustainably manage surface water, reduce the effect of urban heat islands and much more.
We have developed guidance to outline why and how infrastructure should be incorporated.
Walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure design guidance
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Greenways and traffic free routes
We’re helping transform towns and cities into healthier, accessible environments where people can enjoy nature close to home everyday.
Our work integrates inclusivity, design, construction and maintenance with land and legal issues, planning and consents, and ecology to create routes that work for everyone.
We provide guidance for the planning, design, construction and maintenance of traffic-free routes and greenways.
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Healthy streets and low traffic neighbourhoods
We're working with Healthy Streets and local authorities to help urban designers, transport planners and highways teams create healthier streets for everyone.
Our introductory design guide outlines the approach, tools and techniques needed to design a low traffic neighbourhood and the Healthy streets design check provides guidance on making our streets better places for people.
Partner with us to create places people thrive in
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust works with hundreds of clients and partners throughout the UK to make it possible for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle.
Since 1977, we've been providing support and consultancy on a wide range of schemes which make active journeys safer, easier and more appealing to even more people.
Together, we’re helping transform towns and cities into healthier, greener places that benefit communities and empower change.
If you are interested in working with us, please get in touch.
Our projects across the UK
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Infrastructure for walking, wheeling and cycling can save lives
Almost 30 road casualties have been prevented by improvements to active travel infrastructure in Scotland.
For nearly a decade, Places for everyone has been the flagship programme for building and improving walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure in Scotland.
Funded by the Scottish Government, the programme has delivered over 250 projects; ranging from multi-million-pound transformations in cities, to new routes between some of the smallest communities.
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We made the National Cycle Network’s first accessible cobbles
In the first phase of a new route from the 16th century Temple Newsam house, near Leeds, the team worked with heritage experts to trial a technique which made a smooth path through cobblestones.
The uneven surface was a major barrier to less able visitors.
Our Infrastructure and Network Development team worked with Leeds City Council to improve accessibility of the path whilst preserving its historic nature, making it a strong example of inclusive heritage.
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Placemaking as a form of climate change resilience
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust in Wales urban designers, Paria Mundhra and Tiegan Salter, talk about the importance of placemaking and how it can be used to deal with the effects of climate change.
Due to climate change, prolonged periods of hot temperatures are becoming increasingly common.
Climate change is giving us the urgent need and desire to reconnect to our surrounding environments and collectively shape them for our mutual shared benefit through placemaking strategies.
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Active travel networks transform cities across the UK
Two new walking, wheeling and cycling corridors have officially opened in Stirling, transforming how people get around the historic city.
The new active travel corridors connect communities, businesses and higher education institutes across the city like never before.
With many people across Stirling already using the new routes on a regular basis, locals, communities and councils are starting to reap the benefits of getting active for their everyday journeys.
We influence policy and drive sustainable change — explore our latest advocacy and policy work to see how.
