Category: Policies
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PRESS RELEASE: New research has found that greenfield housing estates are adding hundreds of thousands of new car journeys to our roads, increasing congestion, carbon emissions and air pollution.
Posted in: Buses, Climate change, Cycling, Design, Media and press, News, Parking, Planning, Public transport, Rail, Research, Trams, Walking -
John and Jill have been house-hunting in some recently-built developments. They sent these postcards back to show what they found. Since John and Jill don’t drive, they have been using trains and buses to get to the new housing areas, sometimes with adventures on the way. In the end they do find places to suit
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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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PRESS RELEASE: We welcome the positive language about getting people out of their cars onto public transport.
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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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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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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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LETTER: With partners, we are calling for planning reforms to include transport and accessibility at an early stage of planning for new homes.
Posted in: Active travel, Buses, Cycling, Media and press, News, Planning, Public transport, Rail, Walking, Wheeling -
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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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,