Temporary Education Centre, Whittington Hospital
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Whittington Health NHS Trust Temporary Education Centre, Whittington Hospital Draft Travel Plan June 2019 Contents 1 INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................................1 Overview ..................................................................................................................................................1 Travel Plan Aim ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Scope ....................................................................................................................................................... 2 2 ACCESSIBILITY ........................................................................................................................ 4 Development Location ....................................................................................................................... 4 Pedestrians............................................................................................................................................. 5 Cyclists .................................................................................................................................................... 6 Public Transport ................................................................................................................................... 7 Baseline Travel Patterns ..................................................................................................................... 9 Travel Issues at the Hospital ............................................................................................................. 9 3 OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS ............................................................................................... 11 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 11 Objectives .............................................................................................................................................. 11 Targets .................................................................................................................................................. 12 Action Targets ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Aim Targets ......................................................................................................................................... 12 4 TRAVEL PLAN MANAGEMENT ......................................................................................... 14 Travel Plan Co-ordinator (TPC) ....................................................................................................... 14 Working with Others ......................................................................................................................... 14 Marketing Strategy ............................................................................................................................ 15 5 MEASURES AND INITIATIVES .......................................................................................... 16 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 16 Existing Measures .............................................................................................................................. 16 Walking ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Cycling .................................................................................................................................................. 17 Public Transport ................................................................................................................................. 18 New recruits ........................................................................................................................................ 19 Work practices .................................................................................................................................... 19 Pupil and Visitor Travel..................................................................................................................... 19 6 MONITORING AND REVIEW ............................................................................................ 21 7 SECURMENT AND FUNDING ...........................................................................................22 8 ACTION PLAN ......................................................................................................................23 i Appendices Appendix A - PTAL Assessment Appendix B - TfL Bus ‘Spider’ Map ii 1 INTRODUCTION Overview 1.1 This Draft Travel Plan has been prepared by Caneparo Associates on behalf of the Whittington Health NHS Trust (‘the Applicant’), in relation to the construction of temporary buildings on land currently occupied by the Waterlow Unit, to accommodate the temporary relocation of the Whittington Education Centre. The site forms part of the Whittington Hospital campus, located in the London Borough of Islington (LBI). 1.2 The proposal seeks to demolish the exiting disused Waterlow Unit (Use class D1) and reuse the brownfield land to construct a 3-storey building to allow the relocation of the Whittington Education Centre (“WEC”). 1.3 The WEC is currently located in Block G of the Whittington Campus and is sought to be relocated as part of the wider Masterplan for the Hospital, which requires some facilities to relocate over temporary periods to enable the delivery and construction of new facilities or new buildings. The WEC is being relocated to enable the relocation of health services associated with the Camden and Islington NHS Trust to the Whittington Hospital site. 1.4 The WEC principally provides space for training staff at the Whittington Hospital for both clinical and non-clinical staff in addition to providing meeting room space for general operational requirements of the hospital. The staff which are trained at the facility are already based and work at the Whittington Hospital campus and attend training courses and events as part of their ongoing Continued Professional Development and requirements to fulfil their roles. As such, these staff are already based at the hospital and this will not change as part of the proposals. 1.5 Travel Plans provide long-term strategies aimed at changing travel habits away from unsustainable use of the private car to more sustainable modes such as walking, cycling, public transport and car sharing. Travel Plans also encourage a shift from sustainable modes such as public transport, to more active modes such as walking and cycling, particularly in areas of high accessibility where car use is already low. 1.6 Changing travel habits can be achieved through measures such as the distribution of travel information, provision of facilities, and the promotion of incentives to travel sustainably, all of which reflects current central and local government policy. Travel Plan: Whittington Hospital 1 P:\2019\4023-Whittington Hospital\Reports\Temp WEC Application\R02-SW-CC-SD-Travel Plan (190531).docx June 2019 1.7 The primary objective is to reduce unnecessary vehicular and public transport trips associated with the development and to increase the use of alternative, more sustainable and active modes of transport. 1.8 This Travel Plan has been prepared in accordance with Travel Plan best practice and guidance issued by Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT). It has been prepared for the WEC only, with an aspiration to be developed into a Hospital-wide document which will be sought to be implemented in due course. Travel Plan Aim 1.9 The aim of this Travel Plan is to put in place the management tools that are necessary to enable employees at the development to make informed decisions about their travel. This will, in effect, minimise the adverse impacts of their travel to / from the development on the environment. Scope 1.10 This Draft Travel Plan is aimed at all staff and visitors to the WEC. This document sets out the procedures necessary to progress the Travel Plan into a fully working document ready for implementation. It also sets out a range of sustainable transport measures that can be implemented or considered for implementation by the Travel Plan Co-ordinator (TPC) at the development. 1.11 Once adopted, the Travel Plan will aim to increase awareness of the advantages and potential for travel by more environmentally friendly modes, and also set out the physical and management measures that will assist travel by alternative modes. 1.12 The remainder of this document is structured as follows: ➢ Section 2 - describes the accessibility of the Development. ➢ Section 3 - sets out the objectives and targets of the Travel Plan. ➢ Section 4 - outlines the management of the Travel Plan. ➢ Section 5 - sets out the measures and initiatives that will be implemented. ➢ Section 6 - outlines the monitoring and review programme. Travel Plan: Whittington Hospital 2 P:\2019\4023-Whittington Hospital\Reports\Temp WEC Application\R02-SW-CC-SD-Travel Plan (190531).docx June 2019 ➢ Section 7 - details the securement and funding of the Travel Plan. ➢ Section 8 - sets