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Document Revisions No. Details Date 1 Draft January 2015 © Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited January 2015 Doc Reg No. 31115LEArr083i1 Draft - See Disclaimer iv © Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited January 2015 Doc Reg No. 31115LEArr083i1 Draft - See Disclaimer v Contents 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Purpose 1 1.2 Scope 1 1.3 Structure 1 2. Travel Plans 3 2.1 Purpose 3 2.2 Policy 3 2.2.1 National Planning Policy Framework 3 2.2.2 Planning Practice Guidance: Transport Evidence Bases in Plan Making 5 2.2.3 Wiltshire Core Strategy (Adopted January 2015) 6 3. Site Context 7 3.1 Site description 7 3.1.1 Location 7 3.1.2 Access 7 3.2 Local community facilities and services 8 3.2.1 Introduction 8 3.2.2 Proximity to the Site 9 3.2.3 Leisure 10 3.2.4 Summary 10 3.3 Summary 11 4. Site accessibility 13 4.1 Local road network 13 4.1.1 A346 13 4.1.2 A4 13 4.2 Pedestrian and cycle network 13 4.3 Public transport provision 15 4.3.1 Bus provision 15 4.3.2 Rail provision 17 4.4 Summary 19 © Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited January 2015 Doc Reg No. 31115LEArr083i1 Draft - See Disclaimer vi 5. Development proposals 21 5.1 Development description 21 5.2 Parking provision 21 5.2.1 Introduction 21 5.2.2 Vehicle parking provision 21 5.2.3 Cycle parking provision 22 5.3 Access and movement 23 5.3.1 Highway authority consultation 23 5.3.2 Site access 23 5.3.3 Internal movement 24 5.4 Summary 24 6. Objectives and targets 27 6.1 Objectives 27 6.2 Targets 27 6.2.1 Introduction 27 6.2.2 Aim-Type Targets 28 6.2.3 Action-Type Targets 28 7. Measures 29 7.1 Smarter choices 29 7.2 Proposed measures 29 7.2.1 Administration 29 7.2.2 Initiatives 30 7.2.3 Physical improvements 33 7.2.4 Marketing and promotion 34 8. Implementation programme 37 8.1 Implementing the Residential Travel Plan (RTP) 37 8.2 Implementation programme 37 9. Monitoring and evaluation 39 9.1 Monitoring strategy 39 9.2 Evaluation strategy 40 10. Securing the Travel Plan 41 © Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited January 2015 Doc Reg No. 31115LEArr083i1 Draft - See Disclaimer vii Table 3.1 Suggested acceptable walking distances 9 Table 3.2 Walking distances and journey times from the Site to local community facilities and services 11 Table 4.1 Method of travel to work 14 Table 4.2 Bus services 16 Table 4.3 Bus services from Marlborough High Street to Great Bedwyn 17 Table 4.4 Bus service 22 from Marlborough Business Park stop to Great Bedwyn Station 18 Table 4.5 Train services from Great Bedwyn to London 18 Table 5.1 Vehicle parking standards and provision 21 Table 5.2 Cycle parking standards (C3 dwelling houses and flats) 23 Table 8.1 Implementation Programme 38 No table of figures entries found. Figure 1.1 Site Location Plan After Page 2 Figure 3.1 Public Rights of Way adjacent to the Site After Page 12 Figure 3.2 Local Community Facilities and Services After Page 12 Figure 4.1 Local Road Network After Page 20 Figure 4.2 Public Rights of Way network After Page 20 Figure 4.3 Audit of MARL30 After Page 20 Figure 4.4 Marlborough Cycle Network After Page 20 Figure 4.5 Local Bus Routes After Page 20 Figure 5.1 Illustrative Masterplan After Page 26 Figure 5.2 Site Access and Toucan Crossing Proposal After Page 26 Appendix A List of contacts © Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited January 2015 Doc Reg No. 31115LEArr083i1 Draft - See Disclaimer viii © Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited January 2015 Doc Reg No. 31115LEArr083i1 Draft - See Disclaimer 1 1. Introduction 1.1 Purpose The Crown Estate is seeking outline planning permission for up to 220 residential dwellings and a 60 bed hotel on land at Salisbury Road, Marlborough (see Figure 1.1). Amec Foster Wheeler (Amec) has prepared this Residential Travel Plan (RTP), in addition to a Transport Assessment (TA), as supporting documents to the planning application. This RTP describes how specific measures to encourage sustainable travel to and from the Site will be applied and how persuasion, publicity, advice and promotion techniques will be deployed to ensure residents understand and take advantage of these measures. The outcome will be to achieve specific targets, agreed in advance by Wiltshire Council, by a given deadline. 1.2 Scope This RTP has been prepared with reference to Wiltshire Council guidance1 on developing a RTP. The guidance helps developers prepare a RTP that not only meets the needs of their planning obligation but will also satisfy audit by Wiltshire Council. 1.3 Structure This Travel Plan is structured as follows: x Chapter 2 summaries the purpose of the RTP and its endorsement through national and local planning policy; x Chapter 3 describes the location of the Site and its proximity to local community facilities and services; x Chapter 4 describes the existing accessibility of the Site by all modes of travel; x Chapter 5 describes the development proposals; x Chapter 6 describes the objectives and targets for the RTP; x Chapter 7 identifies measures aimed at influencing travel choice and reducing single occupancy car use; x Chapter 8 describes a programme for implementing the RTP; 1 http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/parkingtransportandstreets/smarterchoices/residentialtravelplanguidance.htm © Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited January 2015 Doc Reg No. 31115LEArr083i1 Draft - See Disclaimer 2 x Chapter 9 describes the process for monitoring and reviewing the Travel Plan; and x Chapter 10 describes how the Travel Plan could be secured. © Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure UK Limited January 2015 Doc Reg No. 31115LEArr083i1 Key Site location 0 m 500 m Scale 1:10,000 @ A3 Salisbury Road, Marlborough Travel Plan Figure 1.1 Site Location Plan October 2014 31115-Lea77.dwg smitv Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. © Crown Copyright. 100001776. Draft - See Disclaimer 3 2. Travel Plans 2.1 Purpose The specific purpose of the Travel Plan, at this stage, is to set out the applicant’s commitment to encouraging sustainable travel behaviour amongst residents and the measures that are considered appropriate to facilitate this aim. With this in mind, it is considered that the Travel Plan will aim to influence travel choice for residents and reduce single occupancy car use. Whilst this Travel Plan does not exclude single occupancy car use, it aims to promote alternative modes of travel and a range of measures to ensure that information is provided and car use is not automatically the chosen mode for undertaking a journey. The Travel Plan will be a process requiring monitoring and review as the development becomes occupied. At appropriate stages, a monitoring report will be submitted to the highway authority; the results of which will provide a baseline against which the success of the Travel Plan will be measured. It is the long term aim that the measures within this Travel Plan become part of the ethos of the Site; one where residents often choose more sustainable travel modes over single occupancy vehicle use. It is envisaged that this Travel Plan will become a condition on any planning permission or obligation included in a Section 106 (S106) agreement. S106 refers to Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 which allows a local planning authority to enter into a legally-binding agreement or planning obligation with a land developer over a related issue 2.2 Policy 2.2.1 National Planning Policy Framework The March 2012 Department for Communities and Local Government publication National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF): ‘sets out the Government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied.