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The UK government has recently confirmed a significant funding package designed to accelerate walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure across England — creating opportunities for local authorities, communities and partners to deliver more active travel routes and facilities. In December 2025, Active Travel England (ATE) announced that councils across England have been awarded over £626 million in central government funding to support walking, wheeling and cycling schemes. This multi-year investment is expected to deliver around 500 miles of new and upgraded routes and support an additional 170,000 greener, more active trips per day. The funding aims to enable safer streets, healthier communities and more sustainable travel choices by backing local authorities with capital funding, technical support and capability development. Local authorities rated more...
The ingenious FalcoPod Bike Hangar and FalcoCargoBox Cargo Bike Locker has been used as a key reference point in the new Loveable Neighbourhoods Guide. The 60-page guide offers examples of best practice, hints and guidance for the successful mobilisation and implementation of healthy neighbourhood developments, Liveable Neighbourhoods and community regeneration projects. Falco’s former Managing Director, Jeremy Green, discusses the growth of cargo bikes during lockdown and highlights the fact that you can easily hire a bicycle for personal use, but you cannot do the same for a cargo bike. Jeremy discusses the lack of available infrastructure to support the growing trend and how Falco has developed a ‘one size fits all’ solution to providing secure, on-street cargo bike parking. Jeremy then goes on...
We’re sad to say that our MD of 17 years, Jeremy Green, has decided to ride home for the last time and hang up his cycle clips! Jeremy, who joined Falco back in 2006, has developed the business into the UK’s leading provider of cycle hubs, hangars and general cycle parking facilities. During that time, he’s steered the company through many changes as the cycling sector has gone from strength to strength as the focus of UK transport has moved further towards sustainable travel. Under Jeremy’s leadership, the business has been involved in many cycling firsts as well as some of the UK’s largest projects providing quality cycle parking facilities. Today the business continues in this progressive vein and has recently...
Falco has always put itself at the forefront of our industry and we have always played a proactive role in developing new ideas and products for cycle parking facilities. Having imported the first cycle shelters from Holland back in the early 1990’s over the last 20 years, our commitment to ‘pushing the frontiers of our industry we are proud to have a number of UK (and world) ‘firsts’ under our belt; Falco Firsts First cycle hub (Leeds City Station) Largest cycle hub (Cambridge station 3,000 spaces) Second largest hub (Chelmsford) Largest network of community cycle hubs (LBWF mini-Holland) The first app-based locking hub (Bedford) First cargo public bike hangar (Beryl Bikes/Hackney) First app-based bike hangar (LBWF) First hands-free bike hangar (RBKC) Chelmsford first app-based Key Project Summaries 1. UK's First Cycle Hub...
One of the great features of the FalcoPod and FalcoCargoBox is how attractive it can look with some great designs! It’s smooth exterior cladding which makes it ideal for the application of graphic designs and ‘wraps’! Already proving very popular on our FalcoCrea cycle lockers (see below) we have produced some groovy designs here which we hope you’ll like. A FalcoPod or FalcoCargobox wrap is ideal for sprucing up your neighbourhood, promoting a campaign or event, or even advertising to help the Borough bring in some extra revenue. Falco has its own in-house marketing department and produces designs free of charge for clients, saving on time, money and hassle, whilst our vinyls partners at ‘The Edge Design’ make sure your designs are perfectly applied. Also...
Falco has been working with Qi Managed services Ltd to integrate their ‘Dock Lock Charge’ e-bike/e-scooter charging stations within our hubs and hangars. ‘Dock Lock Charge’ goal is to implement a universal, Micromobility EV charging and docking standard, across UK towns and cities. ARUP’s recent government report ‘Tomorrows Public Transport System’ Mobility hubs, note that docking stations and charging infrastructure should be designed to be universally used by multiple operators rather than proprietary solutions. The Dock Lock Charge solution is simple to implement and works by securely attaching a smart parking adapter to the eBike or eScooter and that’s it, your bike is compatible with the charging infrastructure. Regardless of the make, model or type bike, person or hire scheme, the bike or...
In a move which begins to bring the UK in line with our European neighbours, the UK DfT has updated the rules for all types of road users in The Highway Code to improve the safety of people walking, cycling and riding horses. The changes which apply to England, Scotland and Wales were made to The Highway Code on Saturday 29 January 2022 and include a range of measures to protect and promote cycling and walking. Here are 8 of the changes that you need to know about. 1. Hierarchy of road users The introduction section of The Highway Code has been updated to include 3 new rules about the new ‘hierarchy of road users’. The hierarchy places those road users most...
Falco has been a family company with its own production site for over 70 years. Sustainability was in our DNA from the very beginning and this is reflected within our complete range of modular cycle parking and shelter products, all designed with full circularity in mind.
All products ranges are contemporary and durable, typical of a Falco product. Falco has been at the forefront of the cycle parking and street furniture market and has built up a renowned reputation for manufacturing products that exceed in both design and durability.
Falco’s operations have supported the Circular Economy for many years, simply manufacturing products with environmentally friendly products, that can last for decades and at the end of the product life can be 100% recycled and manufactured back into a brand new product.
