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TRAVEL PLAN SEWELL MEADOW, OLD CATTON Project No.: PT2025 | Our Ref No.: SM ITP V1 February 2020 Norfolk County Council Interim Residential Travel Plan, February 2020 Planning ref: Broadland 20141955 A COMMITMENT TO DELIVER The AtoBetter programme is working with communities and a variety of delivery partners to promote a range of travel choices and enable individuals to walk, cycle, use public transport or car share for more of their journeys. The programme is being delivered in partnership by Norfolk County Council and WSP, and aims to create an ethos whereby healthy, active and sustainable travel become the norm. Ian Dinmore Dorothy Bryant Norfolk County Council AtoBetter Delivery Team Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] TRAVEL PLAN Project No.: PT2025 | Our Ref No.: SM ITP V1 February 2020 Norfolk County Council DOCUMENT CONTROL Record of Issue Version Status Author Checked NCC Checked Date NCC Approved Date 1 Draft CG SB 2 Final DB SB 28 Feb 2020 28 Feb 2020 This report was prepared by the AtoBetter team for Norfolk County Council. The disclosure of any information contained in this report is the sole responsibility of the intended recipient. The material in it reflects the AtoBetter team’s best judgement in light of the information available to it at the time of preparation. Any use which a third party makes of this report, or any reliance on or decisions to be made based on it, are the responsibility of such third parties. AtoBetter accepts no responsibility for damages, if any, suffered by any third party as a result of decisions made or actions based on this report. 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TRAVEL PLAN Project No.: PT2025 | Our Ref No.: SM ITP V1 February 2020 Norfolk County Council CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................. 1 THE EXISTING SITUATION .......................................................... 3 THE FUTURE SITUATION ............................................................. 9 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT ............................................... 10 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES ..................................... 11 TRAVEL PLAN STRATEGY ........................................................ 12 MONITORING AND REVIEW ...................................................... 15 MEASURES .................................................................................. 17 SITE BASED DELIVERY PLANS ................................................ 20 TRAVEL PLAN Project No.: PT2025 | Our Ref No.: SM ITP V1 February 2020 Norfolk County Council INTRODUCTION walking for more of their commuting journeys. Thereby creating an ethos THE DEVELOPMENT where sustainable travel, and a reduction of single occupied vehicles from the site, are the norm. Sewell Meadow is a residential development which consists of 340 dwellings along with 5,640m2 of employment units suitable for small THIS TRAVEL PLAN businesses and an extension to the existing Old Catton cemetery on Sewell Meadow Road. The site is located between the current built up edge of This Travel Plan has been produced in consultation with Norfolk County Norwich and Norwich Airport, bounded by Sewell Meadow Road, Repton Council for supporting sustainable access to and from the site for residents. Avenue and Hurricane Way. Most of the site is within Broadland District, but This document is structured as follows: a small part of it, on its western side, lies within Norwich City as indicated in Figure 1 on the next page. • Existing situation – A review of the existing situation with regards to accessibility, amenities and travel patterns. At the time of writing this travel plan no dwellings were constructed. • Future situation – A review of potential future transport and land use development schemes that relate to Sewell Meadow. WHAT IS A TRAVEL PLAN? • Stakeholder engagement – A plan of stakeholder engagement along with a summary of the engagement that has already taken A Travel Plan was required at Sewell Meadow as part of the development place. gaining planning permission. A Travel Plan is a strategy to limit the impact • Challenges and opportunities – A summary of the challenges and of vehicular traffic and to encourage and facilitate access to a site, taking opportunities identified in the previous three chapters. into account the challenges and opportunities of the site and the needs of • Travel Plan strategy – An overview of the strategy for delivering the residents. The Travel Plan presents a range of actions that will be the Travel Plan, including aims, objectives and targets. undertaken to support the use of sustainable travel modes such as walking, • Monitoring and review – How the Travel Plan will be monitored to cycling, public transport and car sharing. ensure it is meeting its objectives. • Measures – Outline information on the type of measures that will WHAT IS THE ATOBETTER PROGRAMME? be delivered as part of the Site based delivery plan. • Site based delivery plan – Measures which have been agreed The Travel Plan is part of the Norfolk-wide AtoBetter programme delivered with Norfolk County Council to achieve modal shift. on behalf of Norfolk County Council. The overarching aim of the programme is to work with new residents, and a range of partners, enabling new developments to adopt the use of public transport, car sharing, cycling or 1 Figure 1 - Sewell Meadows Development location This Travel Plan will be delivered by the AtoBetter team over an initial period of five years to autumn 2026. It will remain a live document throughout this time and be under constant review and revision to reflect changes in behaviour, facilities and residents. 2 THE EXISTING SITUATION walking distance of The Paddocks bus stop, which is served by Frist Bus INTRODUCTION service 13. This chapter looks at the existing situation at Sewell Meadow with regards In addition to the bus services, Sewell Meadow is located approximately 1.6 to accessibility, local amenities and travel patterns. miles away from the Norwich Park & Ride site at Norwich International Airport. The 501 service connects the Airport with Norwich city centre every TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY 15 minutes during Monday to Friday between 06:30-18:00, every 12 minutes Saturday between 07:00-18:45 and every 20 minutes on Sunday. Understanding the levels of transport accessibility to, from and around the development is important in terms of identifying the challenges and https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/public- opportunities that the Travel Plan will respond to. The plan (Figure 2) on transport/buses/bus-timetables-and-operators the following page displays the transport infrastructure discussed in the following sections. Public Transport: Rail Walking and Cycling Norwich Rail Station is located approximately 4 miles south-east of the site and is accessible by bicycle, bus, car or taxi. The station can be accessed The indicative site layout shows that both cycle users and pedestrians will by using the number 21 or 22 bus from the site directly into the City Centre be able to access the site via Repton Avenue to the south. There is also an and then a short walk to the station. Norwich station offers direct option for accesses via Sewell Meadow Road in the east and Hurricane connections to London Liverpool Street, Cambridge, Great Yarmouth, Way in the west. To the south, the site is connected directly with the Cromer, Liverpool Lime Street and many stations in between. Norwich Outer Circuit cycling path which runs around the City of Norwich and connects with the Yellow Pedalway connecting the airport and https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/tickets-fares/find-right-ticket-you Lakenham via the city centre. Highway network Public Transport: Bus The proposed main access route for the development is situated on Repton The nearest bus stop is located at Priors Drive within 400 metres of the site. Avenue, which is a single carriageway minor road connecting to Sewell First Bus services 21,22 operate from this stop between 06:37 to 22:27 Meadow Road to the East. Street lighting is present on Repton Avenue Monday-Friday, with similar services at weekends. The site is also within along with an off-road cycle/walking shared use path on the side adjacent to the proposed development. 3 Sewell Meadow Road, which is a narrow country lane with a 60mph speed limit, provides direct access to the A1270 Northern Distributor Road to the north and access to the airport via Fifers Lane and the A140 Holt Road to the south. The site also has good connections to the A1042 Mile Cross Lane which makes up the northern section of the inner-city ring road. LOCAL AMENITIES A review of the existing and proposed local amenities within the vicinity of the development has been conducted. The location of these relative to the development site is shown in Figure 2 on the next page. Table 1 indicates travel distances and times, using a multi-modal transport travel time tool, calculated from the proposed main access point on Repton Avenue. The nearest local primary school can be reached via the footways on Repton Avenue and Lodge Lane. The nearest secondary school is 2.3 miles away