Policy information sourced from the Buckinghamshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan
17: Sustainable Transport
Proposals for minerals and waste development will require a Transport Assessment or Statement addressing the following matters, as well as a Travel Plan (where applicable):
- identification and viability of opportunities for alternatives to road-based transport,
- safe and suitable access to the site,
- traffic flows likely to be generated including type of vehicles and number of movements to and from the site per day,
- identification of the intended market base (for mineral development), or the waste facilities catchment area including the origin of waste intended to be received on-site as well as the destination of outputs on an OS base map (for waste development),
- capacity of the local and highway network to accommodate the movements generated by the proposed development,
- identification of any improvements to the transport network determined to be necessary to minimise impacts to an acceptable level,
- identification of potentially adverse impacts arising from the transport of minerals and waste on the community and environment and mitigation measures required to avoid and/or minimise potentially adverse impacts to an acceptable level (including routing agreements or other agreements and controls as necessary), and
- emission control and reduction measures to be implemented.
For more information please see the Buckinghamshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan