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Decarbonising transport: let’s get planning reform right
All over the country, local authorities are preparing local plans for the future, many of these spanning 15 or 20 years up to and beyond 2035. The manifestation of past local plans has now appeared in the form of new areas of housing, but these are far from green transport-wise. We have visited many large…
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Decarbonising Transport: land use planning is key
PRESS RELEASE: We welcome the positive language about getting people out of their cars onto public transport.
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Planning in the spotlight: the implications of THAT byelection
Blog by Jenny Raggett, Transport for New Homes There has in recent days been much talk about the Chesham and Amersham byelection, a constituency that has always been Conservative but has now been won by the Liberal Democrats. An important election issue was the Government’s proposed changes to the planning system, with fears that planning…
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Alastair Hanton: a tribute
Alastair Hanton, who died last month, helped to found Transport for New Homes and was a wise and insightful presence on our Steering Group and at our events. Stephen Joseph has written this tribute to our friend. I’ve known Alastair for over 30 years – when I became director of Transport 2000 (later Campaign for…
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‘Beauty’ alone won’t solve the climate crisis
This guest blog by Cycling UK’s policy director Roger Geffen argues that the Government’s draft National Planning Policy Framework makes it commendably easy for councils to reject planning applications which aren’t ‘beautiful’, but creates massive hurdles for councils wishing to reject developments that would entrench car-dependence. The blog was first published on the Cycling UK…
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Planning reforms risk adding “a tide of car traffic” to crowded roads, Housing Secretary told
PRESS RELEASE: New housing is being sited in places that cannot be served well by public transport, are inaccessible on foot or cycle and often have few or no local facilities.
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Our joint letter calling for planning reforms to include transport and accessibility
LETTER: With partners, we are calling for planning reforms to include transport and accessibility at an early stage of planning for new homes.
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Three changes we’d like to see to the plans for the planning system
We don’t think the current planning system is working, especially when it comes to transport, so we were excited to learn what the government planned. But we had some concerns about the policies proposed. In short, we didn’t think they would make things better.
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Planning for transport demand through the Decide and Provide Approach
What will the likely transport impact of a new development be? How many trips is it likely to generate? To work this out, transport planners use TRICS, which is a database of information about the trips generated by past developments. In the past, TRICs has been used as part of a ‘Predict and Provide’ paradigm,…
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A tale of two developments: why new planning reforms threaten to entrench unsustainable lifestyles
This blog by Steve Chambers, sustainable transport campaigner at Transport for New Homes, was first published by as a guest blog by Green Alliance. In 2018, Transport for New Homes produced an initial report that revealed the deep flaws in the planning system which leave new housing developments with inadequate walking, cycling and public transport…