Learn-to-ride cycle track now open

A new cycle track on Mansfield’s Bellamy Road estate has opened.

The £19,000 facility is aimed at helping children aged two to eight to learn to cycle in a safe, traffic-free environment and has been devised after consulting with residents about how it could best help families in the neighbourhood.

Funding was thanks to two grants from British Cycling’s Places to Ride programme and EEM Ltd, a not-for-profit procurement consortium, of which the council is a partner.

The track and a new play area, which opened last year next to it, forms part of a £7m wider redevelopment of the centre of the estate which will involve demolishing a row of flats and shops in Egmanton Road and replacing them with 22 family homes built round a “village green”.