PROPOSALS to designate a new cycle route in the South of Bradford have moved one step closer.

But one section of the scheme will be delayed due to a mistake in in the consultation exercise designed to get local views of the plans.

West Yorkshire Combined Authority has drawn up a number of "Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans" for across the region. The plans are intended to "inform future investment in provision for cycling and walking" in the area.

At a meeting of the Authority's Transport Committee members agreed to endorse the draft phase one of the majority of the schemes - a walking schemes and a cycling scheme each for Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Calderdale and Kirklees.

Proposed cycling routes would link city centre to South of District

However, not all of the Bradford route was endorsed. The proposed cycle routes runs from Laisterdyke to Low Moor, with another route running from the city centre to Birkenshaw.

Members of the committee heard that although residents in Bradford had been consulted, the Authority had mistakenly excluded Birkenshaw, parts of which are in Kirklees, from that consultation.

The proposals will return to the committee once this consultation has been carried out.

Members heard that the Government had asked local authorities to develop these plans, but there was no extra national funding being made available to implement them.