COUNCILLORS gave their support to the creation of a new £600,000 cycle route linking Ashtead and Leatherhead last week.
At a meeting of the Mole Valley Local Committee, county and district councillors agreed for the next stage of planning for the route to go ahead, which will include final detailed designs and traffic modelling for the scheme.
The decision comes after nearly 200 residents responded to a survey ran by Surrey County Council during a public consultation on the plan, which ended on August 27.
In discussing feedback from the survey at the meeting, councillor Tim Hall who represents Leatherhead and Fetcham East (Con) said: "The main point that concerns me is at the end of the scheme near the Letherhead Institute. I think we may need to review the kerbing there.
"I think it is a sensible thing to do so I am going to support it but I think we need to be very careful with the final design."
Councillor Rosemary Dixon (Leatherhead South, Con) added: "My main concern is the Knoll Roundabout crossing. I do not think I would like a child of mine to be crossing that road."
The feasibility of the route, which will call for the installation of traffic lights and a pedestrian crossing at the congested Knoll Roundabout, has previously been criticised by many cyclists.
Councillors agreed for the next stage of planning to go ahead with a condition that if any substantial changes are made to the final design they will be brought back to the local committee.
Also discussed at the meeting was Fortyfoot Road in Leatherhead. Deep potholes on the road, which is used daily by children with severe learning needs travelling to Woodlands School, sparked the launch of a campaign in June urging the county council to make repairs to the road and for it to be permanently adopted.
John Furey, the council's cabinet member for transport, highways and environment, has previously told the Advertiser he hopes to be in a position for a decision to be made on the road within the next three weeks.
John Eastmond from the Fortyfoot Road Safety Campaign said at the meeting: "The campaign urges you to ensure that the costs of whatever scheme the county council suggests are not left to private residents and the small organisations to cover."
