Bath & North East Somerset Council is proposing to install 20 new cycle hangars in and around central Bath.
A cycle hangar in Great Stanhope Street | Photo © Bath Echo
The hangars are fixed storage lockers designed to hold up to six standard-sized bicycles each.
People can rent a space in a hangar, which can only be accessed by lock and key, or on an app in some locations.
The council says the proposed locations have been requested by the public and local councillors.
They are on Alfred Street, Beaufort East, Burlington Street, Camden Road, Cavendish Road, Charmouth Road, Chaucer Road, Crescent Lane, Cynthia Road, First Avenue, Jesse Hughes Court, Kensington Place, Queen’s Parade, Ringswell Gardens, Sion Hill Place, Spring Lane, St Saviour’s Road, Stanley Road West, Stuart Place and Upper Hedgemead Road.
Transition Bath says it very much supports the proposals “especially the new hangar proposed at the Assembly Rooms which we have campaigned for a number of years – an area with an acute shortage of hangars but an excess of notices telling you not to lock your bike to the railings”.
The group adds that it would have liked to have seen open Sheffield Racks included in the proposal to support casual cyclists visiting the city centre.
The deadline for feedback on the proposed locations is Thursday 10th April.
More information is available on the council’s website here.
