What are Travel Plans, Transport Assessments and Statements?
Travel Plans, Transport Assessments and Statements are all ways of assessing and mitigating the negative transport impacts of development in order to promote sustainable development. They are required for all developments which generate significant amounts of movements.
What are Travel Plans?
Travel Plans are long-term management strategies for integrating proposals for sustainable travel into the planning process. They are based on evidence of the anticipated transport impacts of development and set measures to promote and encourage sustainable travel (such as promoting walking and cycling).
What are Transport Assessments and Statements?
Transport Assessments and Statements are ways of assessing the potential transport impacts of developments and they may propose mitigation measures to promote sustainable development.
Transport Assessments are thorough assessments of the transport implications of development, and Transport Statements are a ‘lighter-touch’ evaluation to be used where this would be more proportionate to the potential impact of the development (i.e. in the case of developments with anticipated limited transport impacts).
When is a Travel Plan required?
The National Planning Policy Framework sets out that all developments which generate significant amounts of transport movement should be required to provide a Travel Plan.
Local planning authorities must make a judgement as to whether a proposed development would generate significant amounts of movement on a case by case basis.
When are Transport Assessments and Transport Statements required?
The National Planning Policy Framework sets out that all developments which generate significant amounts of transport movement should be required to provide a Transport Assessment or Transport Statement.
Local planning authorities must make a judgement as to whether a proposed development would generate significant amounts of movement on a case by case basis.
If you require details on Travel Plans, Transport Assessments and Statements, please contact Third Stone to find out more. We can liaise with the relevant local planning authority to determine what the requirements are for your development.
Our consultant has over 25 years experience in sustainable urban development, including working as a Local Government officer in travel planning.
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