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GLEESON HOMES AND REGENERATION LAND AT FORMER EARTH CENTRE MANCHESTER ROAD, HAPTON INTERIM TRAVEL PLAN WESTGATE CONSULTING (LEEDS) LIMITED 64 WESTGATE GUISELEY LEEDS LS20 8HJ Westgate Consulting Ref: 41 V3 Date: January 2016 COPYRIGHT The contents of this document must not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of Westgate Consulting (Leeds) Limited CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 TRAVEL PLAN POLICY CONTEXT 3 3.0 DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS 6 4.0 ACTIVE TRAVEL 8 5.0 TRAVEL PLAN MEASURES 17 6.0 INITIAL MODAL SPLITS, TRAVEL PLAN TARGETS AND MONITORING 23 7.0 SUMMARY 28 LIST OF APPENDICES APPENDIX TP1 - SITE LAYOUT PLAN APPENDIX TP2 - PLAN SHOWING HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS AT LEEDS LIVERPOOL CANAL BRIDGE APPENDIX TP3 - WALKING ACCESSIBILITY PLAN APPENDIX TP4 - CYCLE ACCESSIBILITY PLAN APPENDIX TP5 - BUS SERVICE DETAILS Manchester Road, Hapton Interim Travel Plan 1.0 INTRODUCTION Background 1.1 This Interim Travel Plan (TP) forms part of a planning application submitted by Gleeson Homes & Regeneration to build 202 residential units at the former William Blythe chemical works, off Manchester Road in the Hapton area of Burnley. The application site is approximately 5.0 kilometres to the west of Burnley town centre and is within the Hapton with Park ward. 1.2 The site has been cleared of buildings and is now vacant. The application for the development of houses includes a mix of two, three and four bedroom houses. Access is proposed by way of a simple priority junction at the same location as the existing access onto Manchester Road, as shown on the site layout plan at Appendix TP1. The Commitment to Travel Planning 1.3 Gleeson Homes and Regeneration are committed to promoting sustainable travel choices and to the principles of sustainable development. 1.4 Through the submission of this TP, the developer shows that they will have a commitment to implement the TP at this development, once occupation of the site begins. The Travel Plan Vision 1.5 The vision for this travel plan is: “To make the development a place where residents can make a fully informed travel choice when undertaking regular and one off journeys, and in doing so reduce reliance upon the private car and the subsequent impact upon the local and global environments.” Travel Plan Aims and Objectives 1.6 To achieve this vision, the aims of this document are to: Maximise the attractiveness of the development to potential residents by highlighting the accessibility of the site by a range of travel options; and ______________________________________________________________________________________________ V3 Gleeson Homes & Regeneration 1 Manchester Road, Hapton Interim Travel Plan Minimise the effect the development has upon the environment and local highway network by promoting the use of these sustainable travel options above less sustainable modes. 1.7 As a result, the objectives of this travel plan document are to: To reduce the impact of the development on the local road network; To enable residents of the development to have informed choices about their travel options; To improve the health and wellbeing of the residents of the development; To ensure transport arrangements of the development have minimum environmental impact.; and To ensure that the development is accessible to the widest possible range of services. The measures outlined in this TP have been designed to achieve these six objectives. Report Format 1.8 This TP outlines the principles, policies and strategic benefits of effective travel planning, and provides a summary of the transport infrastructure surrounding the development. 1.9 The report also considers a range of measures that will be implemented at the site by the developer. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ V3 Gleeson Homes & Regeneration 2 Manchester Road, Hapton Interim Travel Plan 2.0 TRAVEL PLAN POLICY CONTEXT What is a Travel Plan? 2.1 A travel plan is a general term for a package of measures tailored to the needs of an individual site and aimed at promoting greener, cleaner travel choices and reducing reliance upon the car. It involves the development of a set of mechanisms, initiatives, and targets that together can enable individuals on a site such as this to reduce the impact their travel has upon the local environment. National Policy 2.1 The NPPF sets out the need a Travel Plan for all developments that generate a significant amount of movement. The NPPF is supported in its aims by both the Guidance on Transport Assessment, and Good Practice Guidelines: Delivering Travel Plans through the Planning Process which are the best practice guides for the production of reports required through the planning system. 2.2 The NPPF defines a travel plan as: “A long-term management strategy for an organisation or site that seeks to deliver sustainable transport objectives through action and is articulated in a document that is regularly reviewed” 2.3 In its White Paper “A New Deal for Transport”, the Government identified that the responsibility for transport problems and solutions is to be shared between the private and public sectors. It identified the importance that the planning system could play in reducing the need to travel by car (particularly single occupancy journeys) by the careful planning of new developments in a sustainable manner. 2.4 The Department for Transport document ‘Making Residential Travel Plans Work: Good Practice Guidelines for New development’, October 2005, provides guidance on producing and developing Travels Plans for new residential development. It sets out that the national sustainability agenda and modernisation of the planning system have reinforced the important and positive ______________________________________________________________________________________________ V3 Gleeson Homes & Regeneration 3 Manchester Road, Hapton Interim Travel Plan role that travel planning, including for residential development, can play in achieving a wide range of national and local objectives. These include: 2.5 Helping to reduce the need to travel and to cut congestion; Supporting mixed community and housing objectives, including development location, density, design and parking; Supporting social inclusion objectives, particularly through improvement of accessibility to and from new development; and Providing a mechanism through which on-going sustainability appraisal and integration can be built into planning and implementation arrangements. Local Policy 2.6 The Transport Act 2000 requires all local transport authorities in England, outside London, to prepare Local Transport Plans. The relevant local policy documentation in the context of this Transport Assessment is Lancashire local travel plan (LTP3). 2.7 The LTP3 transport goals are to: Improving access into areas of economic growth and regeneration – To help secure a strong economic future by making transport and travel into and between our major economic areas and beyond; Providing better access to education and employment – To provide all sections of the community with safe and convenient access to the services, jobs, health, leisure and educational opportunities that they need; Improving people’s quality of life and wellbeing– To create more attractive neighbourhoods by reducing the impact of our transport on the quality of life and by improving the public space; Improving the safety of the highway network for vulnerable residents – To make walking and cycling more safe, convenient and attractive particularly in the more disadvantaged areas of Lancashire, bringing improvements in the health of Lancashire’s residents. Providing safe, reliable, convenient and affordable transport alternatives to the car- To improve the accessibility, availability and ______________________________________________________________________________________________ V3 Gleeson Homes & Regeneration 4 Manchester Road, Hapton Interim Travel Plan affordability of transport of transport as a contribution to the development of strong and cohesive communities; Maintaining existing assets- To provide value for money by prioritising the maintenance and improvement of Lancashire existing transport infrastructure where it can help to deliver our transport goals; and Reducing carbon emissions and its effects – To reduce the carbon impact of Lancashire transport requirements, whilst delivering sustainable value for money transport options to those who them. 2.8 The development site is located at the northern edge of Hapton, some 5.0km West of Burnley town centre and is close to a range of employment and retail facilities and residential settlements. This TP has been developed for the proposed residential development and includes measures to promote the use of sustainable travel modes as well as reducing the need to travel. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ V3 Gleeson Homes & Regeneration 5 Manchester Road, Hapton Interim Travel Plan 3.0 DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS 3.1 The planning application by Gleeson Homes & Regeneration seeks permission to build 202 residential units at the former William Blythe chemical works off Manchester Road in the Hapton area of Burnley, as shown on the site layout plan at Appendix TP1. 3.2 The site has been cleared of buildings and is now vacant. The application includes a mix of two, three and four bedroom houses, all accessed by way a single simple priority access proposed onto Manchester Road. The new access will be sited
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