LETTER: Walking increase

I am very encouraged to see the latest statistics from the Active People Survey 8 which shows that the number of residents walking for at least ten minutes, five times a week, has increased in the South East by two per cent over the last year.
Your lettersYour letters
Your letters

Here at Living Streets we want to create a nation of walkers; people who choose to walk when their journey covers a short distance, so this is very heartening to see.

Walking is beneficial to the health of our residents but also to our economy.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

The more we get out and walk, the more footfall we will generate in our local towns and cities.

In England, the percentage that walk for at least ten minutes, five times a week, has increased from 43.8 per cent to 47.2 per cent, equivalent to around 1.5 million more people.

This signifies a great turning point in the movement for walking.

It’s rewarding to see a greater number of people in the South East walking to work or the shops, but Living Streets would like to see this increase rise over the next few years.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

I believe it’s important to create opportunities for people living in the South East to walk more in their local towns and cities, as a mode of transport to help improve the health, economy and environment around us.

Lorna Harris

Living Streets

Wentworth Street

London

• Want to share your views? Send your letters by email to [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected], or post them to Letters, Editorial, Cannon House, Chatsworth Road, Worthing, BN11 1NA. Remember to include your full name and address.

Don’t miss out on all the latest breaking news where you live.

Here are four ways you can be sure you’ll be amongst the first to know what’s going on.

1) Make our website your homepage

2) Like our Facebook page

3) Follow us on Twitter

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

4) Register with us by clicking on ‘sign in’ (top right corner). You can then receive our daily newsletter AND add your point of view to stories that you read here.

And do share with your family and friends - so they don’t miss out!

Always the first with your local news.

Be part of it.