Sustainable Travel at South Oxhey Central Welcome to your new home, we hope you will be very happy here! As the Sustainable Travel Manager and Travel Plan Co-ordinator appointed by Countryside and Home Group for the South Oxhey Central Development, we want to tell you a little about what’s available in the area around your new home and how you can get around stress free. Cover Image - Gardiner Stewart Architects & Red Vertex Above Image - Gardiner Stewart Architects The South Oxhey Central South Oxhey is surrounded by development is situated in the beautiful countryside, so you are never very far away from a wonderful heart of South Oxhey, which walk. From sculpture trails to ancient means you don’t have to woodland and semi-urban walks travel far to find your everyday to canal side strolls, there are lots essentials. of routes to explore, making it the perfect place for a summer stroll or a There are a wide range of local shops winter wander. and other community facilities available within a few hundred metres A handy pull-out map is included in of your front door. the centre of this Travel Brochure to help you get your bearings, settle into You are also just a couple of minutes’ your new home and start exploring walk from Carpenders Park Station, the local area. which gives easy access to Watford to the north and towards Central London (via London Euston) to the south using the frequent London Overground trains that call at the station. We want to hear from you! Do you want to know more about your travel options? Is there something we could do to make your journey to work easier? Please get in touchwe and can let help. us know how Sources: Esri, HERE, DeLorme, Intermap, increment P Corp., GEBCO, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, IGN, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), swisstopo, MapmyIndia, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community About the Travel Plan A Travel Plan is a package of measures designed to encourage a more sustainable approach to transport behaviour. It seeks to promote sustainable travel opportunities by improving access and encouraging alternative transport choices for residents — such as walking, cycling and public transport. The South Oxhey Central Travel Plan sets objectives and targets so that a change in transport behaviour can be achieved and is designed to reduce the single occupancy Transport is responsible use of private vehicles, for around one quarter of where possible, whilst also the greenhouse gas end-user increasing the awareness emissions in the UK. From walking and incentives to use sustainable modes of travel. and cycling more to driving smarter, little changes can help to make a big difference. Countryside Properties and Home Group are committed to helping and supporting you to make those first small steps. Information about the Travel Plan The contact details for the Sustainable along with details of local bus routes, Travel Manager and Travel Plan frequencies and stops and information Coordinator are provided below should for cyclists and pedestrians is available you have any questions or queries, or on the South Oxhey Central website wish to actively contribute to future to provide you with up-to-date development of the South Oxhey information about your travel choices. Central Travel Plan. This information can be accessed at www.lovesouthoxheycentral.co.uk We will also be undertaking periodic travel surveys to monitor residents’ travel behaviour, assess the transport facilities available and identify potential areas for improvement. We ask that you please take the time to complete the travel surveys when you receive them, in order to participate in shaping the Travel Plan. Sustainable Travel Manager: Travel Plan Coordinator: John Webber AECOM House, 63-77 Victoria Street, Danny Crew St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 3ER AECOM House, 63-77 Victoria Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 3ER Primary School Local Facilities Greenfields Primary School 324 Prestwick Road, WD19 6UU There are a wide range of local shops Oxhey Wood Primary School and other essential services available Oxhey Drive, WD19 7SL in South Oxhey and the surrounding St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School area. Here are the details of a few local Ainsdale Road, WD19 7DW amenitiess that you may find useful. Warren Dell Primary School Gosforth Ln, WD19 7UZ Woodhall Primary School Cash Machines 19 Woodhall Lane, WD19 6EX Tesco Express Secondary School Prestwick Rd, WD19 6EG Hatch End High School Headstone Ln, Harrow HA3 6NR Banks Kingsley High School Whittlesea Rd, Edgware HA3 6ND Barclays Bank Northwood College for Girls 55 Green Lane, Northwood HA6 3AG Maxwell Road, Northwood HA6 2YE Lloyds Bank St Margaret’s School 5 Rowland Place, Northwood HA6 1AB Merry Hill Rd, Watford WD23 1DT NatWest The Bushey Academy 37 Green Lane, Northwood HA6 3AE London Road, Bushey WD23 3AA The Reach Free School Education Unit 3 Wolsey Business Park, Tolpits Lane, Northwood WD18 9BL Pre-School Westfield Academy Busy Bees Pre-School Tolpits Lane, Watford WD18 6NS Woodhall Ln, Watford WD19 6QX Co-operative Childcare Local Shops 1-3 Altham Gardens, WD19 6HJ Little Furze Pre-School Post Offices Northwick Road, WD19 6NL *Prestwick Road Branch 39 The Parade, WD19 7EF Hallowes Crescent Branch 10 Hallowes Cres, WD19 7NT Local Convenience Stores *Carpenders Park Dental Surgery *Co-op Food 15 St Andrews Road, 13 The Parade, Delta Gain, Carpenders WD19 7AD (Mon-Sun: 7am-10pm) Park WD19 5BL, 020 8428 1233 Tesco Express Prestwick Road, WD19 Pharmacies 6EG (Mon-Sun: 6am-11pm) *ESOM Pharmacy Supermarkets 32-33 Bridlington Road, WD19 7AE Budgens 41 High Road, Bushey WD23 (Mon-Fri: 9am-7pm, Sat: 9am-5.30pm) 2EE (Mon-Sun: 7am-10pm) *Viks Pharmacy Waitrose 52 Green Lane, Northwood 28 Bridlington Road, WD19 7AE HA6 2XW (Mon-Sat: 7am-9.30pm, Sun: (Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm) 11am-5pm) Morrisons 299 Uxbridge Road, Hatch Places of Worship End, HA5 4QT(Mon-Sat: 7am-10pm, Sun: 10am-4pm) All Saints Church (CofE) Gosforth Lane, WD19 7AX Local Health Services Carpenders Park & South Oxhey Methodist Church Doctors Prestwick Road, WD19 6LA The Attenborough Surgery South Oxhey Baptist Church Harrow Way, Carpenders Park 140 Gosforth Ln, WD19 7BX WD19 5EU St Joseph’s Catholic Church The Consulting Room Surgery 111 Oxhey Drive, WD19 7SW Oxhey Drive, WD19 7RU, Watford Central Mosque 020 8428 2292 Cambridge Rd, Watford WD18 0GJ The Prestwick Road Surgery 305 Prestwick Road, WD19 6UT Other Useful Facilities 020 8428 0608 The Pathfinder Surgery Oxhey Library South West Herts Health Centre, Oxhey Bridlington Road, WD19 7AG Dr, WD19 7SF, 020 8421 6746 *Citizens Advice Bureau 4 Bridlington Road, WD19 7AF Dentists 0344 2451296 *Norman Bloom & Assoc. Dental Surgery 38 Bridlington Rd, WD19 7AE * To be relocated. 020 8428 6712 Local Walking Routes Walking The Chess Valley Walk is a linear walk through the Chilterns following Walking is a great way to get the River Chess from Rickmansworth fit and reduces the cost of to Chesham. It passes through the travelling as well as having beautiful scenery of the Chess Valley benefits for your health and and several attractive villages and at the local environment. South times gets close to the clear sparkling waters of the River Chess, one of the Oxhey Central provides Chilterns’ famed chalk streams. It is a pleasant pedestrian about 16 km long, but short sections environment, where walking can be followed at a time. Further is an attractive and feasible information including route history, option. With a wide range of points of interest and a route map can be found at http://www.chilternsaonb. shops and local facilities on org/uploads/files/WWW/chess_ your doorstep, you are well valley_walk_web_version.pdf located to undertake a whole The Ebury Way is a 5.6 km traffic free range of trips on foot. path for walkers & cyclists along the There are lots of walking routes in route of a former railway line linking Three Rivers District, so why not get out Watford and Rickmansworth. The and about and explore the wonderful track crosses the Colne, Chess and countryside around you. Gade rivers and the Grand Union Canal. Cycling is permitted along Get Active! It has been suggested the whole length but horse-riders that walking 10,000 steps per day are restricted to the eastern section has many health benefits and can between Moor Lane Crossing and relieve stress. Have you considered: Rickmansworth. A route map can be downloaded at www.threerivers.gov. • Walking to school or work? uk/download?id=30425. • Getting on the bus a couple of There are many other opportunities stops early or later than usual and for rambles and rides in the Colne walking the rest of the way? Valley area including Chorleywood • Walking for leisure? / Rickmansworth to Gerrards Cross, Key Bus Route R17 Bus Route R16 Local Bus Routes Bus Route W19 Bus Route 8 Bus Stop Residental Site Oxhey Lane Carpenders Park Rail Station Prestwick Road Hayling Road Hallows Crescent Hayling Road Prestwick Road Gosforth Lane South Oxhey Central Harrow Way Oxhey Drive Maylands Avenue Little Oxhey Lane Towards Watford Local Facilities / Walking & Cycling Routes Prestwick Road Fairfield Avenue St Andrews Road Oxhey Drive Hayling Road Hallowes Crescent South Oxhey Central Key Footpaths Maylands Road Cycle Paths (O Road) Cycle Route (On Road) Places of Worship Schools Shops Post Oce Library Doctors Pharmacy Carpenders Park Rail Station Residential Site Towards Northwood Towards Pinner Towards Watford Prestwick Road Fairfield Avenue St Andrews Road Oxhey Drive Hayling Road Hallows Crescent South Oxhey Central Key Footpaths Maylands Avenue Cycle Paths (O Road) Cycle Route (On Road) Places of Worship Schools Shops Post Oce Library Doctors Pharmacy Carpenders Park Rail Station Residential Site Towards Northwood Towards Pinner Key Bus Route R17 Bus Route R16 Local Bus Routes Bus Route W19 Bus Route 8 Bus Stop Residental Site Oxhey Lane Carpenders Park Rail Station Prestwick Road Hayling Road Hallowes Crescent Hayling Road Prestwick Road Gosforth Lane South Oxhey Central Harrow Way Oxhey Drive Maylands Road Little Oxhey Lane Key The Colne Valley Way and the GrandBus RouteLocal R17 Walking Clubs and Groups Union Canal.