TRAVEL INFORMATION FOR OAKWOOD GRANGE

This document can also be downloaded at www.hydrock.com/yourtravelplan/ CONTENTS INTRODUCTION This Smarter Travel Information Pack contains useful Introduction 1 information about your travel options in and around About this Smarter Travel Information Pack 2-3 Hook. Travelling sustainably has plenty of benefits including: Walking 4 Cycling 5  Improving your health and wellbeing  Reducing your travel costs Services/Facilities Plan 6-7  Improving your accessibility to local services  Increasing your road safety Public Transport - Bus 8-9  Reducing your travel times Bus Route Map 10-11  Improving your travel choices  Creating a cleaner, more vibrant local community Taxi 12 Car Sharing 13 Driving 14 Electric Vehicles 15 Shopping 15 Journey Planners 16 Amenities and Information 17

INTRODUCTION - ABOUT THIS TRAVEL INFORMATION PACK Barratt Homes is committed to promoting sustainable Pack Contents travel for the residents of Oakwood Grange. This Pack contains travel information which has been compiled to allow Congratulations on your choice of new home in Hook and welcome to you to assess your ‘smarter travel choices’, including: Oakwood Grange. • Maps of walking and cycle routes Each household has been presented with one of these Travel Information • Lifestyle advice on healthy walking, cycling and ‘linked-trips’ as Packs which has been created specifically for Oakwood Grange. alternatives to car use to improve health & fitness, and reduce stress • Walking/cycling advice & equipment What options are available to you? • Information about public transport: bus, rail and coach links • Details of car-sharing and taxi services Walking - Highly sustainable, healthy, carbon-neutral and free Cycling - Highly sustainable, healthy and a great way to beat the traffic Public Transport - Let someone else do the driving for you Driving - We recognise that sometimes you need to drive. Why not share your journey with a colleague, friend or family member? Remember to anticipate hazards – gentler use of controls contributes to fewer harmful emissions

Your Travel Plan Co-ordinator (TPC) for Oakwood Grange is: Tim Woodhead Email: [email protected]

The success of this travel plan will rely on input from the residents of Oakwood Grange! You will quickly know about travel in your local area, what transport works, and what could be improved to help you travel more sustainably.

A facebook group for Oakwood Grange provides travel information, updates and a forum for residents discussion and questions.

The TPC will also run drop in sessions, and organise a residents meeting to discuss travel issues and form a Travel Plan Group. BENEFITS OF SMARTER TRAVEL N Environmental Benefits

Climate change, due to rising greenhouse gas emissions, threatens the stability of the world’s climate, its economy and the population. Globally, transport accounts for 20% of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions (IEA). In the

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• Reducing your ‘carbon footprint’ and tailpipe emissions thereby V improving air quality 3 bedroom home 3 bedroom home 4 bedroom home 4 bedroom home 4 bedroom home 4 bedroom home 4 bedroom home 4 bedroom home 4 bedroom home 5 bedroom home 5 bedroom home Folkestone Eskdale Alderney Chester Hythie Hesketh Radleigh Woodvale Allendale Marlowe Malvern Affordable Housing Affordable Housing Rented Visitor Parking Space Bins Colection Point R V AH BCP Hook Site Plan OAKWOOD GRANGE WALKING Walking is a great way to improve your health and fitness. It has been shown to reduce stress, increase productivity and energy levels and improve sleep. Walking is free, reliable and a simple way to introduce daily exercise into your life – no matter your age or fitness!

Hook has a range of services, facilities and amenities in the village, as shown on the adjacent map.

Footways throughout Oakwood Grange and Hook provide access to bus stops, shops and leisure areas. There are also some fabulous leisure walks in the local area.

‘Exploring Hook’ is a collection of walks around Hook’s countryside. Information and GPS routes are published on the Hook Parish Council website: www.hook.gov.uk/walks

Map Ref Amenity Distance (m) 1 Hook House Farm Bus Stop 250 2 The Park Health Club 400 Oakwood Grange 3 Hook Community Centre 500 4 Crooked Billet Pub 750 5 Hook Dental Surgery 800 6 Hook Junior School 800 7 Hook Infant School 800 8 Hook GP Surgery 800 9 Post Office and Takeaways 900 10 Old White Hart Bus Stop 900 11 Hook Train Station 1100 12 Tesco Supermarket 1400

Useful Apps A simple pedometer/fitness tracker Strava (Android and iOS) can count how many steps you walk each day. In addition to this, many MapMyWalk (Android and iOS) smartphones have apps which Pedometer (Android and iOS) can not only count your steps but iFootpath (Android and iOS) calculate your distance walked, calories burned and walking time. FOOTPATHS AND AMENITIES FOOTPATHS AND AMENITIES IN AND AROUND HOOK CYCLING Two wheels can be better than four! Cycling is a Bikeability Training in quick, cheap and fun way to get from A to B. Bikeability training is available to all school children in Hampshire during It is one of the easiest ways to fit exercise into your daily routine and is an school years 5-9. For more information contact the Road safety team by ideal way to explore your new neighbourhood and further afield. Cycling phone 01962 832 203, by email [email protected], or visit: is a great way to get about and is also a great alternative to walking as it www.hants.gov.uk/transport/roadsafety/cyclingtraining makes more places accessible. Cycling is around three times faster than walking. In some cases it’s quicker than driving too, and it’s much easier to Local Bike Shops park! Does your bike need a service? Take it to one of your local bike shops! All of the services, facilities and amenities within Hook are located within a 10 minute cycle ride from Oakwood Grange. Pedal Haven, Fleet (11 km) 311 Fleet Rd, Fleet GU51 3BU Benefits of Cycling Tel: 01252 628575 Opening Hours: Mon – Sat: 0900 – 1800 and Sun: 1000 – 1400 • Improving wellbeing by relieving stress Website: www.pedalheaven.co.uk • Helps prevent chronic and life threatening illnesses Email: [email protected] • Maintaining a bike for a year costs twenty times less than maintaining Winklebury Cycles (15 km) and driving a car (Gracq) Unit 5 Winklebury Centre, Basingstoke, RG23 8BU • Reducing congestion and pollution on our roads Tel: 01256 331444 Opening Hours: Mon – Sat: 0900 – 1800 and Sun: 1000 – 1400 Cycle to Work Scheme Website: www.winklebury-cycles.co.uk Email: [email protected] The cycle to work scheme allows you to claim up to £1,000 to spend on a bicycle and cycling accessories through your employer. By using the Pukker Bikes (14 km) scheme you can save between 25-39% of the cost of a new bike and 4 Sorting Lane, Basingstoke, RG24 9TD cycling equipment. Speak to your employer to see if they are signed up Tel: 07811 830291 and if not, take a look at the cycle to work scheme website (www.cyclescheme.co.uk) to find out more. Cycle Events

Get involved in bike week, every year in June. Further information on events planned throughout the country is available on the bike week website (www.bikeweek.org.uk) Useful Apps Strava (Android and iOS) Mapmyride (Android and iOS) Cyclemeter (iOS only) CycleStreets (Android and iOS) OakwoodOakwood Grange Grange

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CYCLE MAP AROUND HOOK PUBLIC TRANSPORT – BUS Why not take advantage of the excellent links that Community Bus Services your local bus services provide? After all, your nearest Hartney Wintney Parish Council run a shopper service on Mondays, bus stops are a short walk from Oakwood Grange. Wednesdays and Fridays. For more information visit: www.hartleywintney.org.uk/community-transport/the-service Bus numbers 2 and 408 operate by stagecoach serve the stops and Email: [email protected] provide a service to (10 mins) and Farnborough (57 mins). On Tel: 01252 849712 weekdays services run five times a day. Additionally, bus number 13 provides services twice an hour to Basingstoke (19 mins) and Haslemere Where Are My Bus Stops? (1hr 40mins). Tickets cost £2.85 for an adult single, and £4.30 adult return. The nearest bus stop is ‘Hook House Farm’ on the London Road (A30) 500m Buy bus tickets in advance using the click2rideit smartphone app. from your new home, served by bus routes 408 and 2. Old White Hart bus stop, in the village centre is located 1.1km from Oakwood Grange and Why The Bus? provides more regular services.

There are many advantages to using local bus services. It allows for many Live Bus Information? people to share trips they might otherwise make individually by car and by sharing the trips, we can reduce harmful emissions helping to maintain a The times of the next three buses are available from any stop in Hampshire cleaner, healthier environment. by texting the stop code to txt4times. Before you start you will need to know the Stop Code reference of your The bus is a great option for travelling locally, for fun days out and to avoid bus stop. the stresses of driving to your destination. There are three basic steps: 1. Create a text message containing the Stop Code The local bus routes provide access to Hook rail station with subsequent 2. Send it to 84268 connections to London, Basingstoke and further locations nationally. 3. Receive a text message listing the next three bus departures from the stop in real time Stop Direction Stop Code Hook House Farm Hartney Wintney hamgpdpa Hook House Farm Basingstoke hamgpdjt Old White Hart Haslemere hamgmwgj Old White Hart Basingstoke hamgmwjt

Useful Information www.traveline.info www.stagecoach.com Tel: 0871 2002233 Tel: 01793 428428

Build some easy exercise into your public Useful Apps transport journey by getting off one or Click2rideit (Android and iOS) two bus stops before your usual stop and walking the rest of the way. You’ll be StageCoach (Android and iOS) amazed at how quickly it adds up! UK Bus Checker (Android and iOS) Route map for Community Bus service 2 (outbound) College Town Plantation Cross Bus 2 The White Lion Sandhurst Manor Park Heath The PUBLIC TRANSPORT – TRAIN Warren Home Park Potley Hill Roundabout Road Meadows The Casa 2 Dungells Lane Hotel The Blackwater Rosemary Lane Oaks Rail Station Location, Routes and Times Reading Frogmore Warren Road Park Drive Hound Green Heath Hawley Blackbushe Cricket Hill Car Auctions 2 Roundabout Hook Rail Station provides services every 30 minutes to London and Hawley Mobile Heath 2 Yateley Home Basingstoke. The approximate frequencies and journey times are set out in Heath Wood Park Black Park Corner 2 the table below. Wood Road 2 Southern Hartley Wintney Haye Swan Destination Frequency Frequency Journey Time First Train Last Train Court (Mon-Sat) (Sunday) (mins) Phoenix Green St Marys Park Borough Mortimer Close London 2 1 63 06:12 23:44 Court Road 2 Gefferys Holt Lane 2 House 2 Winchfield Basingstoke 2 1 10 05:01 23:51 Station Hook Edenbrook 2 Fleet Hook Station Hook Butter Common RouteWood map for Stagecoach in Hants & Surrey service 408 (outbound) Rail Station Facilities Colebrook Lake South © OpenStreetMap 2.5 km Bramshill 5 km Eversley7.5 Cross km 10 km Plantation Eversley Bus 408 Roundabout The Eversleyswe-44002A(1).y10408 (outbound) Link Sandhurst Cross Fox Lane Yateley The station is well equipped with numerous facilities available including Heath Yateley Schools Heckfield Warren Jennys Frogmore Camberley Walk Chapel Wordsworth Corner sheltered waiting areas, toilet facilities and a café. The station is also fully 408 Avenue Handford Lane Green Lane Vigo The Casa Reading Blackwater Heatherside Warren Lane Hotel Road accessible for less mobile individuals. Hound Green Heath Hawley Oakfield Road #1 Brookside Hazeley New Park Heath Inn Mattingley Hartfordbridge Yateley Oaken Copse Frimley Hook Rail Station has 24 covered cycle parking spaces at the station to Heath Wood Crescent Park Corner Sand Road Farnborough Sixth Hill Form College accommodate cycles. These are provided in a number of locations around Swan Court Hartley Wintney Farnborough Sixth Form College Empress Phoenix Southern Haye 408 Avenue Green the Rail Station. Phoenix Green Ham And Blackbird Borough Court Road 408 Farnborough Gefferys Holt Lane Oak House Road College Of Technology The PlusBike website www.nationalrail.plusbike.co.uk and app provides Winchfield Grove Farm Park Edenbrook Mobile Home Park Newnham Hook Fleet 408 information about taking bikes on trains. Hook Station Berry Court Lord Derby Ash Vale Butter Roundabout Grange Runways End Wood Estate Outdoor Centre Castle Bridge Cottages Priors (Mobile Airport Links Corner Home Site) Village Broad Oak Centre Roundabout Kendall Self Drive Ash Route map for StagecoachOdiham 408 in Hampshire Basingstoke service 13 (outbound) Aldershot Southampton Airport: Change trains at Basingstoke - 50 minute journey Basingstoke Canal Visitor Centre Berry © OpenStreetMap 2.5 km 5 km Court7.5 km 10 km Grove Farm Park Heathrow Airport: Rail to Walton on Thames then bus - two hour journey Mill Field Basingstoke Mobile Home Park Bus 13 13 Country Hotel Hook Fleet Henleypark Basingstoke Hook War Memorialswe-44408_(1).y10 (outbound) Lake Bus Station Magistrates Dickens Grange Court Lane Water Lord Derby Estate Runways End End Park Roundabout (Mobile Outdoor Centre 13 Kendall Self Drive Basingstoke Byfleet The Home Site) Kendall Self Drive Hatch Priors Corner The Kendall Self Drive Applegarth Avenue Crown Close Aldershot Useful Information Raf Odiham Turning Raf Odiham Enterprise Rent-A-Car Down Farm Brompton Dock Bike Hire Lees Hill www.nationalrail.co.uk Goodhope Farnham Inwood Camping Farm Pickaxe Lane Frith Garners Tel: 03457 48 49 50 Field Powntley Campsite Hill TrainTracker™ Text: Text station name to: 84950 (Cost 25p for each reply) The Golden Copse Alice Holt Godalming Pot Forest

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swe-44013B(1).y10 (outbound) TAXI CAR SHARING Taxis can form an important part of sustainable journeys.

Many taxis are hybrids or ‘green’ vehicles which help to reduce the impact of car journeys on the environment. Utilising taxis could save you money and help to reduce your carbon footprint!

There are a number of private hire taxi operators local to the area, through which taxis can be pre-booked. Use the Taxicode phone app to find a local taxi. A list of local taxi firms is also included to the rear of this Travel Information Pack.

Uber is available in Hook and the surrounding area. Use the Uber app to book your next ride!

Useful Apps Taxicode (Android and iOS) Car sharing is the most sustainable way to make Uber (Android and iOS) journeys by car. By sharing your journey with just one other person you could reduce your travel costs by 50%. You can take it in turns to drive or sign up as only a driver/passenger and share the fuel costs. This is a great way to save money. You can car share once a week or everyday – it’s up to you. Why Car Share?

• Reduces the number of cars on the roads, resulting in less congestion, less pollution and fewer parking problems • Provides a solution for travelling to and from areas not served by bus • Opportunity to socialise • Reduced fuel costs • Useful for people with mobility difficulties (door to door travel)

Liftshare (Liftshare.com/uk) is free and links drivers and passengers to share Useful Apps their journeys. Liftshare (Android and iOS) DRIVING ELECTRIC VEHICLES Get more miles for your money! Electric Vehicles (EVs) are vehicles which use one or Once you have considered all the other options available to you for your more electric motors for propulsion. journey, you might realistically be left with just the one option – to drive. However, there are a number of ways through which you can both save All plug-in vehicles provide improved fuel economy and either zero or money and fuel, which in turn helps to reduce CO2 emissions, creating a reduced emissions. EVs also offer a number of potential financial savings cleaner, healthier community. compared to conventional vehicles. Currently, there is a government grant scheme for up to £3,500 of the cost of a new EV! • Service your car regularly to maintain engine efficiency See www.gov.uk/plug-in-car-van-grants for more information. • Check your tyre pressures regularly (and before long journeys): underinflated tyres use more fuel as they increase rolling resistance EVs can be charged in a variety of places including at home, at work or a • Lose any unnecessary baggage-extra weight means extra fuel designated EV charging point location, including at fuel stations or service consumption stations. Zap-Map have created a map that enables EV drivers to locate • Combine short trips and navigate to these charging points. The map identifies charge points • Drive smoothly, accelerate gently and anticipate the road ahead to from both the major networks and smaller providers across the UK. avoid unnecessary braking • Cut down on using air con: air conditioning increases fuel consumption at low speeds (the effects are less noticeable at higher speeds) • Stick to the speed limit: the faster you go the greater the fuel Useful Apps consumption (cruising at 70mph uses up to 9% more fuel than at 60mph Zap-Map (Android and iOS) and up to 15% more fuel than at 50mph) (Drivegain)

Useful Apps MPG Calc (iOS) SHOPPING Basic MPG Calculator (Android) Shop & Drop or Click & Collect are both brilliant ways to save time, money and fuel.

With online shopping you can do your shopping from the comfort of your own home and have it delivered at a time to suit you. Or you can collect from the store when you’re out and about anyway, so no need for a specific shopping trip.

Useful Appss ASDA (Android and iOS) Sainsbury’s Groceries (Android and iOS) Tesco Groceries (Android and iOS) Ocado (Android and iOS) JOURNEY PLANNERS AMENITIES/INFORMATION Hook Village Halls Tesco Hook www.hookvillagehalls.org.uk www.tesco.com 01256 764000 0345 677 9352 The Park Health Club Alexander Cars of Hook www.theparkhealthclub.com www.alexandercarsofhook.co.uk 01256 769099 01256 765151 Hook & Hartley Wintney Medical Station Cars Hook Partnership www.stationcarshook.co.uk www.hartleywintneysurgery.nhs.uk 07720 530397 01793 721254 Station Taxi Hook Hook Parish Council www.stationtaxihook.co.uk www.hook.gov.uk 01256 767676 01256 768687 VGT Taxis Hook Hook House Hotel www.vgtravel.co.uk www.hookhousehotel.co.uk 01256 760760 01793 721701 Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk Where do you want to go? 01256 473202

We’ve given you the tools to decide how to make your journey, now you can explore where you want to go.

There are many tools available to help you plan your journey, including:

My Journey Hampshire Walk4Life www.myjourneyhampshire.com www.walk4life.info

Stagecoach Bus Sustrans www.stagecoach.co.uk www.sustrans.org.uk 01793 428428 Cycle Streets Traveline South West www.cyclestreets.net www.travelinesw.info 0871 2002233 AA Route Planner www.theaa.com/route-planner National Rail Enquiries www.nationalrail.co.uk Google Maps 08457 48 49 50 www.google.co.uk/maps This document can also be downloaded at www.hydrock.com/yourtravelplan/