Transcript Local Transport Plan 3 - Rother District Council

Local Transport Plan 3
Rother DC Services Overview and Scrutiny
Committee
19 July 2010
Jon Wheeler
East Sussex County Council
Local Transport Plan 3
Context
• Statutory requirement – Transport Act 2008
• Greater flexibility than previous incarnations
• Proposed timeframe is 2011 to 2026 in line with
Sustainable Community Strategy and LDFs
• In place by April 2011
• LTP3 will include two documents:
– 15 year Strategy to be reviewed as needed
– Implementation Plan for 3 to 5 years to be reviewed annually
• Local document reflecting East Sussex issues and
priorities
• Evidence based
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Context
• Transport is a means to an end – contributes to wider
agendas (economic, environmental, social)
• Increased focus on climate change – mitigation and
adaptation
• Reflect and support Local Development Frameworks
• Links to Local Economic Assessment and Single
Conversation
• Strategy appraisal – Environmental, Equalities, Health
• Great emphasis on deliverability and value for money
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Process
Identify
Vision and
Goals
Identify
Issues and
Challenges
Priorities
Identify
potential
Strategy
options
Appraise
Options
Delivering
the
Strategy
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Vision and Goals
• Vision
– To make East Sussex a prosperous county of safer, healthier,
sustainable and inclusive communities set within a high quality
and protected environment
• Goals
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Improve economic competitiveness and growth
Improve security, safety and health
Tackle climate change
Provide sustainable transport opportunities to enhance social
inclusion
– Improve quality of life
• Reflect those set out in Sustainable Community Strategy
and East Sussex Council Plan
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Wider issues and challenges
• Need for economic regeneration
• Transport infrastructure and provision
• Improving connectivity and spatial growth
• Urban / rural, coastal / hinterland
• Environmental constraints
• Climate change mitigation/adaption
• Social, Health and Safety issues
• Changing political and financial landscape
– Abolition of regional governance
– Funding
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Priorities
Priorities
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Road Safety
Public & Community Transport
Highway Maintenance
Planning and providing
infrastructure
Priority Areas for planning &
providing infrastructure
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Bexhill/Hastings
South Wealden / Eastbourne
Uckfield
Newhaven
• Priorities reflect those identified in Sustainable
Community Strategy and East Sussex Council Plan
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Preferred strategy
• Three different options identified
• Each with greater emphasis on 1 or more of the goals
• Preferred Strategy from appraisal
– Proactive approach to maintaining roads and pavements
– Road safety education and some infrastructure provision
– Investment in infrastructure for pedestrians, cyclists,
community transport and public transport
– Promotion of sustainable modes of travel - better information
and advice on the options available
– Greater emphasis on reducing carbon emissions and on
improving health through physically active travel
– Parking control and enforcement.
– Non-transport interventions
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Preferred Strategy
Preferred Strategy informed by direction set in a suite of
thematic policy documents
Sustainable
School
Travel
Walking
Cycling
Bus
Community
transport
Road
Hierarchy
Freight
Road Safety
Accessibility
Parking
Travel
Behavioural
Change
Transport
information
Rail
Rights of
Way
Air
Quality/Low
emissions
Asset
Management
Land Use
Planning /
LDFs
Local
Economic
Assessment
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Implementation Plan
• Implementation Plan will include:
– Schemes/Projects
– Budgets
– Timescales
• Schemes will be appraised in relation to:
– Contribution to delivering the LTP3 objectives
– Deliverability
– Value for Money
• Reflect the priority areas for investment and where
infrastructure is required
• Tie into the LDF’s Infrastructure Delivery Plan
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Timetable
Evidence
Gathering
Autumn 2009 to
Spring 2010
Developing
Strategy
Spring to
Summer 2010
Public
Consultation on
draft Strategy
and
Implementation
Plan
Autumn 2010
Approval of
Strategy
Winter / Spring
2011
LTP3 effective
from 1 April
2011
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Questions/Discussion