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Contents 1 Setting the Scene 777 1.1 Introduction 7 1.2 What is a Local Transport Plan? 7 1.3 The need for a new LTP 8 1.4 Progress and achievements 9 222 Our Vision 101010 2.1 Developing the vision 10 2.2 The Corporate Plan 10 2.3 Quality of place 13 333 Developing the Local Transport Plan 141414 3.1 Approach 14 3.2 “Daughter documents” 15 3.3 Process 16 3.4 Consultation process 17 3.5 Policy context 18 444 Connected at all scales 202020 4.1 Connecting Neighbourhoods 20 4.2 Linking Towns 22 4.3 Cities and the Sub-Region 23 4.4 UK Connectivity 23 4.5 Global Gateways 25 4.6 Smart and Digital Connections 25 555 Defining the challenge 272727 5.1 Supporting growth and economic strength through connectivity 27 5.2 Ensuring accessibility to services 30 5.3 Protecting and improving our environment 32 5.4 Promoting health, wellbeing and physical activity 34 5.5 Maintaining and managing our network assets 34 5.6 Improving organisational efficiency and effectiveness 36 666 How we will meet the challenge 383838 Cheshire East Local Transport Plan 4 6.1 Hierarchy of Provision 38 6.2 Delivering the vision 41 6.3 How we will decide what to do 47 6.4 Joined-up delivery 49 777 Active and Smarter Travel 505050 7.1 Smarter Choices 50 7.2 Walking 52 7.3 Cycling 55 7.4 Other vulnerable road users 61 7.5 Integration with other modes / land use 61 888 Bus 646464 8.1 Flexible Transport 65 999 Rail 666666 9.1 Introduction 66 9.2 Current Context 66 9.3 Existing Constraints 68 9.4 Existing Connections 69 9.5 Existing Franchise Position 70 9.6 Growth Trends 70 9.7 Priorities for Improvement 72 101010 Public Transport Information and Ticketing 767676 10.1 Ticketing 76 10.2 Information 76 10.3 Facilities 77 10.4 Integration 78 111111 Roads 797979 11.1 The importance of the highways network in Cheshire East 79 11.2 Road safety 86 11.3 Network management 89 11.4 Parking 93 11.5 Integration with other modes / land use 112 121212 Delivering for Cheshire East 114 Cheshire East Local Transport Plan 5 12.1 Monitoring and evaluation 114 12.2 Borough wide actions 115 Appendix 1 --- Local Area Profiles 120 Alsager 121 Congleton 128 Crewe 135 Handforth 142 Knutsford 151 Macclesfield 158 Middlewich 165 Nantwich 171 Poynton & Disley 178 Rural Areas 186 Sandbach 191 Wilmslow 198 Cheshire East Local Transport Plan 6 1 SeSettingtting the Scene 1.11.11.1 Introduction This document is the second Local Transport Plan (LTP) to be developed by Cheshire East Council following the re-organisation of local government in Cheshire in April 2009. The LTP seeks to build on past achievements; including those guided by the previous plan period whilst also responding to local, regional and national changes since the previous plan was published in 2011. This LTP aligns with the Council’s Corporate Plan for 2016-2020 and the six outcomes it identifies are embedded at the heart of our vision for transport. To ensure the robustness of the LTP and its alignment with national policy it has been developed in accordance with the Department for Transport (DfT) document ‘Guidance on Local Transport Plans’, whilst also clearly reflecting local priorities. This includes ensuring that the five key goals for transport in the UK identified by the DfT have alignment with and will be contributed to by success against the Council’s corporate outcomes. The importance of transport is clear and well understood by the Council. An effective transport network supports sustainable communities which have access to services, opportunity, friends, and family. Whilst transport connectivity enables new development and urban regeneration which contributes to the delivery of much needed jobs and homes in the Borough supporting the Council’s priority of jobs-led growth. The LTP also plays a role in promoting improved public health and safeguarding the environment by reducing the negative impacts of transport. 1.21.21.2 What is a Local Transport PlanPlan???? This LTP is a strategic plan for the development of transport within Cheshire East over the period 2018-2023, outlining how transport will contribute to and support the longer-term aspirations of the Borough. The LTP will also detail planning a feasibility which is necessary during this period to effectively plan for long term programmes investment programmes to 2030 and beyond. The LTP will be supported by a series of topic-specific ‘daughter documents’ which will address detailed or technical issues relating to transport in Cheshire East. The LTP will remain a live document and will therefore be subject to ongoing review and development. As new national and local policies, strategies and priorities emerge and new challenges are identified, the LTP suite of documents will be reviewed and updated as required. This reflects the fact that the LTP is a vital tool to help the Council work with stakeholders to strengthen its place shaping role and its delivery of services to the community. Allowing this document to remain live will enable the flexibility required to adapt to and capitalise upon new opportunities as they arise. Cheshire East Local Transport Plan 7 1.31.31.3 The need for a new LTP The Transport Act 2000 introduced a statutory requirement for local transport authorities to produce a LTP every five years and to keep it under review. Following this the Transport Act 2008 updated statutory requirements to give local transport authorities more flexibility about how and when they updated their LTP. Local transport authorities are now free to replace their LTP as they see fit. Cheshire East’s LTP requires updating in part due to the substantial progress which has been made since the previous plan was published in 2011, including major investment in the Borough’s transport network. In addition, the local, regional and national policy context has evolved with a new Local Plan for Cheshire East emerging and the government placing renewed emphasis on Local Economic Partnerships (LEPs) to drive economic growth.