Quality Assurance Document Management Document Title Error! No text of specified style in document. Name of File 20157C REP Tamar Valley Line Evaluation Report JT 2.docx Last Revision Saved On 17/05/2018 15:20:00 Version FINAL Prepared by JA/MM/MR/RT Checked by JT Approved by JT Issue Date 17 May 2018 Copyright The contents of this document are © copyright The TAS Partnership Limited, with the exceptions set out below. Reproduction in any form, in part or in whole, is expressly forbidden without the written consent of a Director of The TAS Partnership Limited. Cartography derived from Ordnance Survey mapping is reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of HMSO under licence number WL6576 and is © Crown Copyright – all rights reserved. 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Guildhall House 59-61 Guildhall Street Preston PR1 3NU Telephone: 01772 204988 Fax: 01772 562070 [email protected] www.taspartnership.co.uk Contents 1 Introduction and Objectives ............................................................. 3 1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................ 3 1.2 Objectives ............................................................................................... 3 1.3 Our Approach .......................................................................................... 4 1.4 Report Structure ...................................................................................... 5 2 Travel in the Tamar Valley – Baseline Mapping ................................... 6 2.1 Public Transport in the Tamar Valley .......................................................... 6 2.2 Demographic Profile of Tamar Valley ........................................................ 13 2.3 Travel to Work Patterns .......................................................................... 21 2.4 Comparator Stations .............................................................................. 24 2.5 Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership ........................................................... 27 3 Economic, Social, Environmental and Other Benefits of the Tamar Valley Line 31 3.1 Valuation Methodology for Tamar Valley Line............................................. 31 3.2 Valuation Framework ............................................................................. 32 4 Specific Aspects of Value of the Tamar Valley Line ............................. 61 4.1 Introduction .......................................................................................... 61 4.2 Cost of Travel ........................................................................................ 62 4.3 Travel Time ........................................................................................... 69 4.4 Productive Use of Travel Time ................................................................. 75 4.5 Retail Expenditure .................................................................................. 78 4.6 Leisure Expenditure ............................................................................... 79 4.7 Value to Health & Social Care .................................................................. 80 4.8 Value to Environment ............................................................................. 81 4.9 Economic Benefits .................................................................................. 84 4.10 Multiple Deprivation ............................................................................. 85 5 Tamar Valley Surveys ..................................................................... 87 5.1 Survey Approach ................................................................................... 87 ©The TAS Partnership Limited ▪ May 18 Error! No text of specified style in document. ▪ Contents ▪ 1 5.2 Rail User Survey .................................................................................... 87 5.3 General Transport Survey ....................................................................... 88 5.4 Stakeholder Survey ................................................................................ 89 6 Impact Evaluation of Service Changes .............................................. 93 6.1 Benefit of Changes to Tamar Valley Rail Service ........................................ 93 6.2 Changes to Current Service ..................................................................... 93 6.3 Tavistock Changes ................................................................................. 95 6.4 No Railway ............................................................................................ 97 6.5 Conclusions ........................................................................................... 99 7 Value of Tamar Valley Railway to Policy & Development Plans ........... 100 7.1 Benefits to Policy & Plans ...................................................................... 100 7.2 Cornwall & Devon Strategic Plans .......................................................... 100 7.3 Development Sites Close to Tamar Valley Stations ................................... 105 8 Conclusions ................................................................................. 108 8.1 Conclusions ......................................................................................... 108 Appendix A: General Transport Survey ................................................... 113 Appendix B: Rail User Survey (On-train) ................................................. 134 Appendix C: Stakeholder Survey ............................................................ 167 Appendix D: Background to Evaluation Methodology & Rail Evaluation Studies Elsewhere ........................................................................................... 193 ©The TAS Partnership Limited ▪ May 18 Error! No text of specified style in document. ▪ Contents ▪ 2 1Introduction and Objectives 1 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 The Tamar Valley Line is one of eight branch railway lines that are promoted by the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership (DCRP). The Partnership’s role is essentially to promote the lines and increase patronage, through engagement with the community, stimulation of economic regeneration, new marketing initiatives, and assistance with service improvements. The TAS Partnership was commissioned in November 2017 to deliver an evaluation study of the Tamar Valley line. 1.1.2 The study is the initiative of Calstock and Gunnislake’s Cornwall Councillor Dorothy Kirk and has been commissioned by DCRP. Councillor Kirk’s primary objective was for the survey to evaluate and to emphasise the economic importance of the Tamar Valley Line to the communities on the Cornish end of the line – Gunnislake and Calstock. DCRP obtained funding from the Designated Community Rail Development Fund, backed by the Department for Transport and ACoRP, the Association of Community Rail Partnerships, to extend the study to cover the Devon part of the line as well. 1.1.3 The survey, therefore, aims is to gain a holistic view of the impact of the Tamar Valley line, identifying the connection between the service that is provided and the wider benefits that accrue. This underlines the fact that the journeys made on the rail service are not an end in themselves but enable and enhance a diverse range of activities that would otherwise not take place, or would take place less effectively, or at greater cost (to individuals, to the communities served, and to the environment). 1.1.4 The TAS Partnership would like to acknowledge the assistance of the DCRP staff, surveyors Brian Skelcey and Roger Webster, and all the other stakeholders who have contributed to this report. 1.2 Objectives 1.2.1 The purpose of the study is: a) to identify the value of the current service, taking into account a range of stakeholders; and b) to assess the impact that any changes to the services would have on the various communities and stakeholders, and how these would affect service frequencies; and to assess the possible extension to Tavistock, which would disrupt current timetable patterns. ©The TAS Partnership Limited ▪ May 18 Error! 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