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Setting the Standard: Securing Travel Plans Through Planning

Setting the Standard: Securing Travel Plans Through Planning. Matthew Prince Smarter Travel Unit Transport for London. Overview. Travel Plans in UK Planning Development Control Guidance Workplace Residential Supporting the Guidance ATTrBuTE iTrace Engagement Strategy

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Setting the Standard: Securing Travel Plans Through Planning

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  1. Setting the Standard: Securing Travel Plans Through Planning Matthew Prince Smarter Travel Unit Transport for London

  2. Overview • Travel Plans in UK Planning • Development Control Guidance • Workplace • Residential • Supporting the Guidance • ATTrBuTE • iTrace • Engagement Strategy • National Standards

  3. Travel plans in the UK Planning System TfL Guidance

  4. Travel plans in the UK Planning System • Planning mechanisms • PPG13 - National Policy • London Plan – Regional Policy • Transport Assessments – Local Policy • Securing Travel Plans • Section 106 Agreements • Conditions

  5. Writing guidance • Look at best practice • Include research • Draft guidance • Consult • Revise • Approval • Inclusion in policy

  6. The Guidance in the London Plan ‘Developments with significant transport implications should include a Transport Assessment and Travel Plan as part of planning applications. Developers and planning authorities should refer to TfL’s guidance on Transport Assessments. All developments that exceed thresholds defined in TfL guidance on Workplace Travel Plans and Residential Travel Plans should have a Travel Plan.’ London Plan – Policy 3C.2 February 2008

  7. Workplace Guidance • Delivered in March 2008 • Material consideration in planning applications • Sets out the standard for workplace travel plans across all land use classes • Identifies the thresholds • Shows best practice and gives examples • Links to further advice

  8. Workplace Guidance • 4 Types of travel plan can be submitted • Full • Interim • Framework • Statements • All must include (except statements) • Objectives • Targets • Management (inc Funding) • Marketing • Measures • Monitoring

  9. Workplace Guidance • Scoping • Pre-application • Submission • Post permission and pre-opening • Post-opening

  10. Residential Guidance • Delivered March 2008 • Material consideration in planning applications • Threshold set at residential developments over 80 units • Best practice • Linked to workplace guidance for s106/conditions

  11. Residential Guidance • Plan to be site specific • Combination of “hard” and “soft” measures • Holistic package - integrated into design, marketing and occupation of site. • Measures to support accessibility – including walking, cycling, public transport use and vehicle access (without ownership). • Parking restraint

  12. Supporting the Guidance • ATTrBuTE • Computer based evaluation, building and testing programme for travel plans • iTRACE • Web based travel plan monitoring database, management and reporting system • Engagement Strategy • A strategy to educate, inform boroughs of the guidance and to improve travel plan quantity and quality • Enterprise • An off the shelf service for businesses with 20-250 employees to produce their travel plan in accordance with a planning condition or legal agreement

  13. National Standards • Procedures set out and audited by the British Standards Institute (BSI) • Gaining a consensus on • What is a travel plan • Travel plan components • Methodology for surveys… • Attaining a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) • Faster process • Does not need full consensus of stakeholders • British Standard

  14. European Standards • COMMERCE • Paris and London working with 4 ‘learner’ cities on mobility plans • Produce guides and standards • On-line web forums • Recognise best practice • Managed by LEPT

  15. Conclusions • London has a set of guidance documents setting a standard for development control travel plans • Support tools are in place to ensure the guidance is accepted and used • Evaluation tools are in place to ensure travel plans become ‘living’ documents • Working towards establishing National Standards • Working towards establishing European Standards

  16. Links • TfL Guidance • http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/workplacetravelplanning/7680.aspx • The London Plan • http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/thelondonplan.jsp • COMMERCE • http://www.commerce-eu.org/ • iTRACE • http://www.itrace.org.uk/

  17. Thank you Matthew Prince matthewprince@tfl.gov.uk

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