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Bus Services Walking Rail Services Cycling 03 04 LOCAL TRAVEL AMENITIES/ OPTIONS MAP FACILITIES Walking Routes Cycle Routes Local Amenities/Facilities 05 06 CAR SHARING TRAVEL PLAN AND JOURNEY CO-ORDINATOR PLANNING Internet and Broadband Live Traffic Information Useful Contacts Car Parking How to Claim Your Voucher Local Taxi Firms
2 CONTENTS CONSIDER YOUR TRAVEL OPTIONS
As you and your family settle into your new home within Northstowe, we would like to help you to be part of a more sustainable community that promotes a range of lifestyle and travel choices and reduces reliance on the private car.
In line with this we encourage A Travel Plan Co-ordinator A detailed Travel Plan has you to consider your future has been appointed for the site been prepared alongside this travel habits, and rely less and they are the first point of Welcome Pack in order to upon your car for shorter contact for any of your travel set out the action plan of journeys. This could lead to queries, or if you have any how and when the various an improvement in your health transport ideas you wish to sustainable travel initiatives through increased exercise, discuss. They will be happy are to be delivered. The full help you save money, or simply to provide you with further document, as well as various cut your carbon emissions. information for your specific other details about the travel needs, and their contact Northstowe development, This Welcome Pack has been details are included in the rear can be accessed via the official designed to assist you as you of this Welcome Pack. Northstowe website. Further travel in, out and around the information on how to access Northstowe development this document can be found in and the surrounding area. Its the ‘Useful Contacts’ section at purpose is to provide you and the rear of this Welcome Pack. your family with information on the travel options that are currently available to you, and those which will be available to THIS WELCOME PACK HAS you in the future. BEEN DESIGNED TO ASSIST YOU AS YOU TRAVEL IN, OUT AND AROUND THE NORTHSTOWE DEVELOPMENT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA
3 PUBLIC TRANSPORT BUS SERVICES The Cambridgeshire Guided In a few years’ time, there Over time, the Citi 5 Busway runs adjacent to will be a dedicated busway service will be redirected Northstowe with the nearest which runs through the heart into Northstowe, providing existing bus stop situated at of Northstowe and will be you with more direct and the Longstanton Park and Ride accessible from a new bus stop convenient access this service. site. As part of Northstowe located next to the Pathfinder This diversion is anticipated to Phase 1 a new bus stop to access Primary School. occur during 2017; however, the service will be built next to your Travel Plan Co-ordinator Pathfinder Primary School. The The Citi 5 bus service operates will keep you up to date with Cambridgeshire Guided Busway two routes within the vicinity of changes to bus services in operates between Cambridge, the site, both of which can be the area, including the latest Huntingdon and St Ives operates caught from bus stops on High bus timetables. on a on 5-minute frequency during Street. The first route provides peak periods. Furthermore, access to both Cambridge In order to encourage you to the service runs on a 10-minute City Centre and Bar Hill and use the bus, each household is frequency on weekdays, and operates on a 20-minute entitled to a voucher towards on a 20-minute frequency on frequency. The second the purchase of a month’s bus weekends and Bank Holidays. route also provides access to pass. Details on how to claim Cambridge City Centre, but your voucher can be found on The Cambridgeshire Guided continues towards Fenstanton page 15 of this Welcome Pack. Busway will also provide a direct and Longstanton and operates link to the Cambridge North on an hourly frequency. Railway Station1.
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE GUIDED BUSWAY RUNS ADJACENT TO NORTHSTOWE
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RAIL SERVICES CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Railway Station RAILWAY is currently the nearest railway station to the site and STATION IS provides access to number of ACCESSIBLE destinations including London VIA BOTH Kings Cross, London Liverpool Street, Ipswich, Stansted THE GUIDED Airport, Leicester, Birmingham BUSWAY AND New Street and Norwich. THE Cambridge Railway Station is CITI 5 BUS short walk from Cambridge City Centre, which is accessible from both the Citi 5 bus service and the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway.
From May 2017, Cambridge North Railway Station will open and provide services towards Cambridge Railway Station, as well as Cambridgeshire Guided Busway.
Further information on public transport services in the area can be found via the web-links in “Useful Contacts” at the rear of this Welcome Pack.
1 Opening during 2017 5 WALKING & CYCLING
If you are looking to improve your health through more active travel options, reduce your carbon footprint or simply enjoy leisure and recreational routes close to your new home, the local walking and cycling networks provide good quality options for you and your family. A network of walking and cycling routes will provide great connectivity into and around Northstowe offering plenty of choices for everyone.
WALKING There will be high quality walking routes within the development, which link into the existing footways and road network to the north (B1050 Station Road) and east (High Street). These routes will provide direct access both within Northstowe and into the surrounding area.
The area also benefits from an extensive network of public rights of way providing an opportunity for you to explore the area at a leisurely pace.
6 WALKING 02 & CYCLING IT IS POSSIBLE TO ACCESS THE WIDER CYCLE NETWORK VIA A NUMBER OF ADVISORY CYCLE ROUTES
CYCLING Within Northstowe many Within the immediate vicinity To make cycling more roads have been designed the Cambridgeshire Guided accessible, each household is to integrate on-carriageway Busway has an integrated entitled to a voucher for up cycle lanes, providing easy cycle route, providing traffic to £50 towards the purchase access around the new town. free access to St Ives and or maintenance of bicycles In addition, it is possible to Cambridge, as well as offering per household. In addition, access the wider cycle network covered, lit and CCTV Northstowe are committed to via a number of Advisory monitored cycle parking at provide cycle training lessons Cycle Routes, including various Busway stops en- for all ages. Details and how to Regional Route 24 which links route. This cycle route forms claim your voucher and apply Longstanton and Cambridge via part of Sustrans’ National for cycle training can be found Oakington and Girton. Cycle Route 51. page 15 of this Welcome Pack respectively.
7 NORTHSTOWE PHASE 1 ALSO LOCAL INCLUDES EMPLOYMENT AMENITIES OPPORTUNITIES & FACILITIES
Northstowe is well situated with a range of amenities right on your doorstep. The existing village of Longstanton benefits from a mini-supermarket, a post office, a doctors surgery, a primary school and various sports/leisure facilities.
Your home comprises part of The Pathfinder Church of the first phase of Northstowe England Primary School is now new town and as more homes open for admission and there are built, other facilities will be also will be a local centre with delivered, further reducing the a community building2, a sports need to travel long distances. hub3 including football pitches, a multi-use games area, rugby pitch and a bowling green.
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There is also space for new businesses to locate at Northstowe over the coming years.
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Sometimes public transport and other sustainable modes of travel are not viable as a travel option; whether it is due to childcare commitments, the travel distance to your destination or the lack of public transport options for your journey. Before driving anywhere why not consider the possibility of car sharing? CAR SHARING Whether you share with your Car sharing can often provide a CAN OFTEN partner, neighbours, or a more direct and flexible option PROVIDE A colleague, the opportunity to than public transport, as well MORE DIRECT have company on your journey as enabling you to reduce the is possible via the countywide costs of travelling and cut your AND FLEXIBLE car share database, which you carbon emissions. OPTION can join via: THAN PUBLIC www.camshare.co.uk TRANSPORT
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LIVE TRAFFIC INFORMATION CAR PARKING
Highways England (HE) Cambridgeshire County Council www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
BBC Traffic Info Local Park and Ride Sites www.bbc.co.uk/travel/cambridge/ www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/info/20149/ incidents/road park_and_ride
ELECTRIC VEHICLE LOCAL TAXI FIRMS
As the uptake of electric vehicles becomes Alpha Cars (Longstanton) greater, the need to provide charging points 01954 232300 is becoming a priority. To help with this, a number of the homes within Northstowe will be Able Cars (St. Ives) constructed with purpose built electric vehicle 01480 469469 charging points, allowing you to charge your vehicle from the comfort of your own home. Bar Hill Taxi Services Cars (Bar Hill) 07816 482722 In addition, there are a number of communal charging points located within the vicinity of Northstowe, including within the local square of Phase 1, and near the Park and Ride stop for the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway. The location of these stops can be via www.zap-map.com, and are shown within the Walking and Cycling Map. 13 TRAVEL PLAN CO-ORDINATOR
The contact details of the Travel Plan Co-ordinator for Northstowe are detailed below. They are here to help with sustainable travel queries, providing you with further information for your specific travel needs.
If you have any problems or would like to report any travel related issues within Northstowe, please contact the Travel Plan Co-ordinator, who will aim to address issues or relate them to the developer, the Council or Local Highway Authority.
YOUR TRAVEL PLAN CO-ORDINATOR IS:
Travel for Cambridgeshire Box SH1315 Shire Hall, Cambridge CB3 0AP
01223 715550
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USEFUL CONTACTS:
Official Website www.northstowe.com
Official Twitter INTERNET AND @NorthstoweTown BROADBAND Travel 4 Cambridgeshire www.travelcambs.org.uk Your new home will be broadband ready, with direct access to a wide range of internet Traveline East Anglia providers, including BT Open Reach: www.travelineeastanglia.org.uk
BT Open Reach Cambridgeshire County Council www.openreach.co.uk www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Virgin Media: Sustrans www.virginmedia.com www.sustrans.org.uk
Walkit www.walkit.com/cities/cambridge
Camcycle HOW TO CLAIM www.camcycle.org.uk
YOUR VOUCHER Public Rights of Way To apply for your bus voucher, or to www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/info/20012/ register for cycle training, please fill in the arts_green_spaces_and_activities/199/ respective form located on the official definitive_map_and_statement Northstowe website.
Bicycle Training www.northstowe.com bikeability.org.uk/ 15 Birmingham Lombard House 145 Great Charles Street Birmingham B3 3LP
0121 794 8390 [email protected]