Aylesbury Vale District Local Plan Supplementary Planning Guidance 4 Transport Contributions from Non-MDA Developments at Aylesbury 4 CONTENTS FOREWORD .................................................................................................................................................................................i STATEMENT OF CONSULTATION....................................................................................................ii INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................................. 1 1. Contents ............................................................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Background to this Consultation ......................................................................................................... 1 THE ALUT STRATEGY............................................................................................................................................. 2 6. Background to the Aylesbury Land Use/Transport Strategy ........................ 2 8. Aylesbury Vale District Local Plan.................................................................................................... 2 AYLESBURY NON-MDA DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORT CONTRIBUTIONS ............................................................................................................ 3 11. Rationale.......................................................................................................................................................................... 3 16. Trip Rate Contribution ................................................................................................................................... 4 19. Trip Rate and Discount Calculation ............................................................................................ 5 24. Thresholds and Exemptions ................................................................................................................. 6 29. How the contributions will be used............................................................................................... 6 31. Site Specific Transport Improvements.................................................................................... 7 APPENDICES ........................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Appendix 1 – Map of ALUTS area and sectoral boundaries................................ 8 Appendix 2 – Trip Rates & Thresholds for Typical Developments .............. 9 Appendix 3A – Process for determining if Contribution Required............. 10 Appendix 3B – Methodology for Calculating Contributions................................ 11 Appendix 4A – Qualifying LTP Works by Type................................................................... 15 Appendix 4B – Qualifying LTP Works by Sector .............................................................. 17 May 2002 FOREWORD The Council approved this Supplementary Planning Guidance on 8th May 2002. ____________________________________________________________________ i Aylesbury Vale District Local Plan Supplementary Planning Guidance 4 May 2002 Statement of Consultation i) The public consultation period ran from Monday 3rd December 2001 to Friday 8th February, allowing a two week break for Christmas. Two public notices, advertising the consultation, appeared in the Bucks Herald on 28th November 2001 and 9th January 2002. During the public consultation period, the SPG was publicised in the Council’s customer service centre and also on the Council’s website. ii) 350 groups and individuals were sent copies of the SPG and were asked for comment. These groups included; AVDC Councillors, Buckinghamshire County Councillors for Aylesbury and Bierton, MP for Aylesbury, District Parish Clerks, Heads of Service at AVDC, statutory consultees, Objectors to Policy AY.4 of the deposit Local Plan, Objectors and supporters of SPG11. iii) During the consultation period, 23 representations were received. These can be broken down into: • 10 objections • 4 supporting statements • 1 expression of support for the principle but concern over the detail • 6 ‘no comments’ • 2 informal comments from officers concerning implementation iv) Cabinet agreed the Council’s responses to these objections on 30th April 2002 and Council adopted the SPG on 8th May 2002. 1 The adopted version of SPG 4 supersedes paragraphs 7-14 and Appendix 4 of SPG1. Aylesbury Vale District Local Plan Supplementary Planning Guidance 4 May 2002 ii TRANSPORT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NON-MDA DEVELOPMENTS AT AYLESBURY INTRODUCTION Contents 1. This Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) sets out the context for the Aylesbury Land Use / Transport Strategy (ALUTS) as defined within the Aylesbury Vale District Local Plan (AVDLP). It explains :- • the rationale behind the requirement for developer contributions • a description of the trip rate contribution • details of thresholds and exemptions • a flow chart to guide prospective applicants through the process • a methodology for making the calculations • details of how, where and when the contributions will be used. Background to this Consultation 2. Aylesbury is planned to grow by a third by 2011, to a total of 77,000 people. This growth will generate a substantially increased need for travel, which will directly impact on the town’s transport networks. To accommodate this growth in the most sustainable way, the District and County Councils have jointly worked on preparing the ALUT Strategy for the Aylesbury area (see Appendix 1 for map of Aylesbury Transport Strategy Area). 3. A fundamental principle of ALUTS, as set out in AVDLP, is that all new development pays a proportionate sum for the additional demands on the local transport system that it creates. As part of this, in May 2000 the Council approved SPG 1 on ‘Developer Contributions and Parking’. SPG 1 specifically dealt with developer transport contributions from brownfield1 and windfall2 sites within Aylesbury, that is all other development sites at Aylesbury apart from the Local Plan major development area (MDA) sites. 1 Land that has been previously developed 2 Housing that has not been specifically proposed in the Local Plan Aylesbury Vale District Local Plan Supplementary Planning Guidance 4 May 2002 1 4. In the light of 12 months experience of implementing SPG1, the Council resolved to make certain changes to improve clarity, make calculations simpler, introduce exemptions and thresholds and link contributions to specific transport infrastructure improvements. This SPG has been through a public consultation exercise as detailed in the Statement of Consultation and now supersedes those parts of the original SPG1 that dealt with developer contributions. Guidance on parking remains in a republished SPG1. 5. In the interim, Council resolved on the 14th November 2001 to approve this draft Guidance for development control purposes with immediate affect. THE ALUT STRATEGY Background to the Aylesbury Land Use/Transport Strategy (ALUTS) 6. Work on ALUTS began in 1994 in recognition of the fact that the majority of development in the District would take place in and around Aylesbury. The aim of ALUTS was to accommodate this growth in a sustainable way, meet transport needs and reduce reliance on the private car. 7. The underlying principle of ALUTS does not solely rely on improvements to facilities and infrastructure. It also requires that land use be planned in a sustainable way, i.e. maximising the use of previously developed sites first and then concentrating development at a minimum number of urban extensions. It seeks to minimise the amount of new road building and promotes public transport, walking and cycling schemes. These principles are embraced in the AVDLP. Aylesbury Vale District Local Plan (AVDLP) 8. AVDLP proposes to accommodate the majority of the District’s development requirements at four Major Development Areas (MDAs) around Aylesbury. These four urban extensions will be linked to the existing town by enhanced bus facilities, walking and cycling networks, funded by the MDA developers as required by policies AY.1 to AY.3 and AY.5. In line with the scale with these developments, the MDAs will be funding the majority of transport works required by AVDLP. 9. AVDLP also requires that developers of other non-MDA sites in the Aylesbury transport strategy area should also fund transport works arising from their development. This is on the basis that without these transport works the developments would be unacceptable because of their adverse impact on the local highway network and conditions for other users of the highway. Aylesbury Vale District Local Plan Supplementary Planning Guidance 4 May 2002 2 10. Policy AY.4 of AVDLP states that Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) will be published which details the methodology for calculating contributions and which guides the implementation of ALUTS. This SPG fulfils that requirement. AYLESBURY NON-MDA DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORT CONTRIBUTIONS Rationale 11. The Local Transport Plan (LTP) includes a programme of transport works required to meet the transport needs up to 2011. These needs are based on forecast transport growth, derived from the predicted growth in housing, employment, commerce and leisure as well as the increased demand of the