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I Have Just Spoken with Concerning Taking Forward the School Travel Plan (STP) for Lanchester From: Sent: 26 June 2013 12:58 To: Subject: Watford: Lanchester Building - School Travel Plan I have just spoken with concerning taking forward the School Travel Plan (STP) for Lanchester. advisedthat oftheWHCFSThasdelegatedthepromotionoftheSTPat Lanchester to her colleague has concerns that HCC is not looking at the operational detail for Park & Stride (e.g. how walking buses would staffed and work etc). In response, I expressed the view that HCC Property would look to find hard solutions (such as car parking opportunities) but the delivery of operational solutions thereafter would be a matter for WHCFST to devise and implement and ultimately advise upon. and would like to set up a meeting to go through the various P&S proposals and options and the earliest both are available is w/c 05 August 2013. (I have advised that WHC may want some progress on the STP prior to then.) Could you please liaise directly with to set up this requested site visit? I expect that you may also need to liaise with at WHC to arrange access onto the Lanchester/WHC site. Many thanks From: [] Sent: 25 June 2013 09:42 To: Cc: Subject: RE: Watford: Lanchester Building - School Travel Plan , has asked me to brief you about research and contacts I've made / had regarding off site parking and park and stride opportunities in the vicinity of the Lanchester Building / West Herts College site for the proposed free school. My main contact has been , Transport and Infrastructure Section Head Planning and Development Watford Borough Council Town Hall, Watford WD17 3EX Phone: Fax: email 1 Following research including local knowledge, WBC web site, parking websites, google earth, maps and on the ground, I'm in discussion with Andy and HCC to seek to secure season tickets for appropriate numbers of Free School staff members in the Avenue car park. I've identified that there is an opportunity to promote Park and Stride in areas of the estate road to the south and west of the West Herts College site - in Cassiobury Drive, and connected residential roads. Pedestrians would use the connecting private footpath from the estate roads into the West Herts College site and through to Lanchester. has confirmed that the controlled parking zone in that area does not restrict parking (except on the single and double yellow lines) during the time that parents would typically drop off and pick up children attending a primary school. However he strongly recommends a consultation process should HCC / The Free School seek to promote this as part of a managed provision within a school travel plan. I'll forward relevant e-mail messages and plans to build further background. Best Wishes, Surveyor - Public Sector Advisory Services Lambert Smith Hampton 45 Grosvenor Road, St Albans AL1 3AW T-M-F- Rediscover LSH by visiting our new website www.lsh.co.uk The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to legal professional privilege. Unless you are the intended recipient you are not authorised to, and must not, read, copy, distribute, use or retain this message or any part of it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then permanently delete the e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned by MIMECAST for the presence of computer viruses. Lambert Smith Hampton Group Limited's registered office is United Kingdom House, 180 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1NN. Registered in England, number 2521225 Please consider the environment - only print this email if absolutely necessary 2.
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