Greater Manchester Integrated Support Team

N Transport Activists’ W TAR RoundtableNorth West www.nwtar.org.uk NW TAR CORE GROUP Activists’Roundtable GMSF IA Scoping Report Consultation, Convenor: Greater Manchester Integrated Support Team, LILLIAN BURNS Room 308, Manchester Town Hall, Director, TravelWatch Albert Square, NorthWest/ CPRE NW Regional Group Manchester, 25 Heybridge Lane, M60 2LA. Prestbury, Cheshire, SK10 4ES t: 01625 829492 th f: 01625 828015 Monday, August 10 , 2015 e: [email protected] Members: GMSF: CONSULTATION ON INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT SCOPING REPORT DAVID BUTLER The North West Transport Roundtable (NW TAR) promotes sustainable land CTC Right-to-Ride representative use, sustainable transport and healthier lives. Amongst other things, we 10 Gladstone Grove espouse the ethos of ‘Smart Growth’ which seeks to direct new infrastructure Stockport, SK4 4DA t: 0161 432 4611 to previously developed land. We want to see high quality improvements to e: [email protected] sustainable transport and smart choices delivered as a priority in order to PETER COLLEY achieve modal shift and better spatial planning that reduces the need to travel. Federation of Cumbrian Amenity Societies/ NW ACTs Friends of the Lake District As far as the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GSF) is concerned, we 12 Rawes Garth would like much more emphasis on air quality and on reducing harmful Staveley Cumbria LA8 9QH t: 01539 821629 emissions. And the connection between poor air quality and health needs to e: colleygarth@ be explicit. Some European directives are not listed in the Scoping Report such btopenworld.com as the EU National Emissions Ceilings Directive (2001/81/EC) and the Ambient JANET CUFF Air Quality Directive (2008/50/EC) and Directive 2004/107/EC and there needs Ramblers Association/ CPRE th 33 Tatton Road North to be reference to the Supreme Court ruling on air quality made on April 29 Stockport SK4 4QX 2015 and the Greater Manchester (GM) Air Quality Action Plan. The existing t: 0161 431 7654 e: [email protected] poor state of affairs is evident from the GM AQMA map (Appendix 1).

ADRIAN DUNNING We would also welcome an acknowledgement of the need to take NW Association of Civic Trusts 11 Crombouke Fold, Worsley environmental capacity into account. The consultation asks if key sustainability Manchester M28 1ZE issues have been identified. There should be an environmental capacity t: 0161 790 9507 e: [email protected] assessment and also a noise impact assessment. SANDRA DUTSON We note that the population figures used for the analysis are not the most NW TAR Treasurer/ Road Peace 12 Queenscroft, recent ones, which were a significant reduction on the previous estimates. Eccles, M30 9QQ t: 0161 707 3546 Also, much is said about commuter flows and the need to connect people to e: [email protected] jobs. There actually needs to be a tangible recognition of the growing trend HELEN RIMMER towards home working. According to the Office for National Statistics, over North West Campaigner, 12% of the workforce in the North West now work full or part time from home Friends of the Earth and the trajectory is upwards. This trend should be reflected in the way that 60 Duke St Liverpool L1 5AA t: 0151 707 4328 the need for employment land is assessed.

Webmaster: Yours sincerely, GRAEME SHERRIFF LILLIAN BURNS, Convenor, NW TAR e: [email protected] e:[email protected] Appendix 1

2 Reproduction of part of Greater Manchester Air Quality Management Area (Interactive) Map