Swansea Council 71/72 THE KINGSWAY Travel Plan 02 NOVEMBER 2019 CONFIDENTIAL Swansea Council 71/72 THE KINGSWAY Travel Plan TYPE OF DOCUMENT (VERSION) CONFIDENTIAL PROJECT NO. 70039389 OUR REF. NO. 02 DATE: NOVEMBER 2019 WSP 1 Capital Quarter Tyndall Street Cardiff CF10 4BZ Phone: +44 2920 769 200 WSP.com CONFIDENTIAL QUALITY CONTROL Issue/revision First issue Revision 1 Revision 2 Revision 3 Remarks Draft Issue Final Issue Date September 2019 November 2019 Prepared by Rhian Sheady Rhian Sheady Signature Checked by Lindsay McCauley Lindsay McCauley Signature Authorised by Peter Evans Peter Evans Signature Project number Report number File reference 71/72 THE KINGSWAY CONFIDENTIAL | WSP Project No.: 70039389 | Our Ref No.: 02 November 2019 Swansea Council CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 OVERVIEW 1 1.2 WHAT IS A TRAVEL PLAN? 1 1.3 REPORT STRUCTURE 1 2 PLANNING POLICY REVIEW 3 2.1 OVERVIEW 3 2.2 NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL POLICY 3 2.3 BREEAM 3 3 BASELINE CONDITIONS 5 3.1 OVERVIEW 5 3.2 SITE LOCATION 5 3.3 LOCAL HIGHWAY NETWORK 6 3.4 WIDER PLANS FOR THE KINGSWAY/ORCHARD STREET 12 3.5 PARKING AVAILABILITY 15 3.6 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY 16 3.7 WALKING AND CYCLING ACCESSIBILITY 25 3.8 LOCAL AMENITIES 34 3.9 SAFETY REVIEW 35 4 DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS 38 4.1 OVERVIEW 38 4.2 SUMMARY OF PROPOSALS 38 4.3 SITE LAYOUT 39 71/72 THE KINGSWAY CONFIDENTIAL | WSP Project No.: 70039389 | Our Ref No.: 02 November 2019 Swansea Council 4.4 SERVICING AND REFUSE ACCESS 40 4.5 PARKING PROVISION 40 4.6 CYCLIST FACILITIES 41 4.7 ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 44 5 OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS 46 5.1 OVERVIEW 46 5.2 OBJECTIVES 46 5.3 TRAVEL MODE TARGETS 46 6 TRAVEL PLAN MEASURES 48 6.1 OVERVIEW 48 6.2 WORKPLACE TRAVEL PLANS 48 6.3 TRAVEL PLAN COORDINATOR ROLE 49 6.4 MANAGEMENT OF DELIVERIES AND SERVICING VEHICLES 49 6.5 PROMOTION AND TRAVEL INFORMATION 50 6.6 CYCLIST FACILITIES 50 6.7 CYCLE CLINICS/TRAINING 51 6.8 PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES 51 6.9 FACILITIES FOR MOBILITY IMPAIRED PERSONS 52 7 IMPLEMENTATION MONITORING AND REVIEW 53 7.1 OVERVIEW 53 7.2 MONITORING 53 7.3 REVIEW 54 TABLES Table 3-1 - Summary of Nearby Car Parks 15 Table 3-2 - Number of Bus Services Serving the Proposed Site 18 Table 3-3 - Number of Bus Services from Selected Locations 19 71/72 THE KINGSWAY CONFIDENTIAL | WSP Project No.: 70039389 | Our Ref No.: 02 November 2019 Swansea Council Table 3-4 – Rail Service Provision 22 Table 3-5 - Integrated Network Map Routes in Proximity of Swansea City Centre. 31 Table 3-6 - Amenities in Proximity to the Proposed Site 35 Table 4-1 – Approximate Breakdown of Building Spaces 39 Table 4-2 – Swansea Cycle Parking Standard Requirements 43 Table 4-3 - BREEAM Requirements for the Number of Cycle Spaces 44 Table 4-4 – Provision of Local Disabled Bays 45 Table 5-1 – Interim Percentage Mode Share Targets 47 Table 6-1 – Provision of Local Disabled Bays 52 FIGURES Figure 3-1 - Site Location 6 Figure 3-2 – Existing Regeneration Work on The Kingsway 7 Figure 3-3 - Christina Street 8 Figure 3-4 - Local Highway Network 9 Figure 3-5 – Contractors Compound 9 Figure 3-6 - Accountants Fronting onto Picton Lane 10 Figure 3-7 - Oxford Street 12 Figure 3-8 - Wider Plans for The Kingsway/Orchard Street 14 Figure 3-9 - Location of Car Parks with the Available Capacity Indication, Based on Average Usage 16 Figure 3-10 - Location of Bus Stops Within 650m Walking Distance 17 Figure 3-11 - Average Number of Vehicles Arriving at P&R Sites (Daily) 20 Figure 3-12 - Cycling Stands at the Front of Train Station 21 Figure 3-13 - Cycle Stands on Platform 1 (left) and Platform 4 (right). 21 Figure 3-14 - Cycling Distances from Site. 26 Figure 3-15 - Extract of Swansea Cycle Map 27 Figure 3-16 - National Cycle Network Surrounding Swansea 28 Figure 3-17 - Location of Proposed Crossing Facilities as part of Regeneration of The Kingsway 29 71/72 THE KINGSWAY CONFIDENTIAL | WSP Project No.: 70039389 | Our Ref No.: 02 November 2019 Swansea Council Figure 3-18 - Walking Distances from Site. 30 Figure 3-19 - Extract of Integrated Network Map for Swansea. 31 Figure 3-20 - Audited Routes 33 Figure 3-21 - Issues within Swansea Centre 34 Figure 3-22 - Collisions Reported in the Study Area 36 Figure 4-1 – Architect’s Illustration of Proposed Digital Employment Hub 38 Figure 4-2 - Proposed External Arrangements 40 Figure 4-3 - Example of Installed Wheeling Ramps 42 Figure 4-4 - Example of Cycle Repair Stand 42 Figure 6-1 - Example of Cycle Repair Stand 51 71/72 THE KINGSWAY CONFIDENTIAL | WSP Project No.: 70039389 | Our Ref No.: 02 November 2019 Swansea Council 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW This Travel Plan (TP) has been prepared by WSP for the proposed Digital Employment Hub on The Kingsway in Swansea City Centre. The Digital Employment Hub is a mixed-use development and forms part of the proposed Urban Village on The Kingsway. This TP is required in support of the planning application. Taking into account the scale of the proposals and the varying needs and requirements of different building occupiers, this overarching TP will help establish a strategic approach to travel planning for the development. This document is a key intervention to improve sustainable travel to the proposed development, and ensure that the site provides safe access for all travel modes. The TP has been prepared in accordance with relevant local, regional, and strategic policy and best practice including Planning Policy Wales Edition 10. This TP has been prepared to be compliant with BREEAM New Construction 2018 UK. The content of the TP has been determined following scoping discussions with Swansea Council. The TP is a key measure identified in the Transport Implementation Strategy (TIS) section of the Transport Statement (TS) that has been prepared in support of the planning application. 1.2 WHAT IS A TRAVEL PLAN? A TP assists with managing the travel demands and impacts of a new development. TP’s can be defined as a long term site management strategy designed to promote access to / from a site or area by sustainable modes of transport and to facilitate travel choice. A TP is a live document that should be regularly updated and reviewed. A TP should establish a strategy with clear objectives and targets, supported by suitable polices and quality measures for implementation. Whilst the location of a development, its physical design, and proximity to facilities creates the conditions to make sustainable travel a preferred choice, communicating these opportunities to occupiers is critical to the success of the TP. The primary aim of a TP is often to reduce single occupancy car use to an agreed level within an agreed time period. Although targets will be specific to the site and local area, they should take into account sustainable travel objectives as set out in national and local transport planning policy. A Travel Plan Coordinator (TPC) for the building will be appointed prior to occupation of the development to implement the TP. The TPC will be responsible for ensuring that each occupier has a TPC, as well as coordinating the operation and management of the TP, and ensuring its delivery. 1.3 REPORT STRUCTURE The structure of this TP is as follows: Chapter 2 – Planning Policy Review Chapter 3 – Baseline Conditions Chapter 4 – Development Proposals Chapter 5 – Objectives and Targets Chapter 6 – Travel Plan Measures 71/72 THE KINGSWAY CONFIDENTIAL | WSP Project No.: 70039389 | Our Ref No.: 02 November 2019 Swansea Council Page 1 of 54 Chapter 7 – Implementation, Monitoring, and Review 71/72 THE KINGSWAY CONFIDENTIAL | WSP Project No.: 70039389 | Our Ref No.: 02 November 2019 Swansea Council Page 2 of 54 2 PLANNING POLICY REVIEW 2.1 OVERVIEW A TP is a document that sets out a programme of measures or initiatives for reducing the number of privately owned vehicles making trips to / from a proposed site. The TP also sets out to promote and encourage alternative sustainable modes of transport. This TP looks to adhere to the local, regional, and national policy guidance, so that the proposed development is designed and planned using the relevant policies and guidance. 2.2 NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL POLICY This section provides a brief overview of all the relevant policy that affects the production of TPs. For a more thorough review of the policies set out in this section, refer to the supporting TS. 2.3 BREEAM BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology) was created in 1990 by the Building Research Establishment. It is a means of assessing new development in terms of their environmental awareness. In transport terms, new development needs to ensure it promotes and contributes to a good sustainable transport network. Each new development is rated against a system of six levels: unclassified, pass, good, very good, excellent and outstanding. The proposed development needs to meet level 5 of excellent (also known as level 4 as ‘unclassified’ is sometimes not referred to on the levelling scale) in order to receive funding from the Welsh Government. This funding would be used to help build the new development. 71/72 THE KINGSWAY CONFIDENTIAL | WSP Project No.: 70039389 | Our Ref No.: 02 November 2019 Swansea Council Page 3 of 54 There are various categories and criteria that the development needs to meet in order to progress through the levels. For transport, this involves the following list: Public transport network connectivity; Pedestrian and cyclist facilities; Access to amenities; Travel Plans and necessary information; and, Disabled access.