Policy information sourced from Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan

TT1: Traffic Volumes and Vehicle Size

Due to the critical need to improve air quality and tackle congestion within the Plan Area:

  1. Planning proposals that can reasonably be expected to result in a significant number of additional journeys to and from a proosal site post-completion should provide the following information at an appropriate level of detail to allow a robust assessment of the impact of the proposal on air quality, levels of pollution, and the local transport network:
    • a Transport Assessment (or Statement);
    • a full or outline Delivery and Servicing Management Plan (DSMP);
    • an Air Quality Assessment.
    Together this information should demonstrate (if necessary, through mitigation measures) that the impact of any such journeys will be offset so that approval will not lead to an overall reduction in air quality in the Plan Area or have a significant adverse impact on the local transport network.

  2. Where a Travel Plan is approved in connection with an application it should include provision for an annual monitoring report to be submitted to Camden Council in years 1, 3 and 5 following occupation.
  3. Planning applications which can reasonably be expected to result in significant additional motor vehicle journeys in the Plan Area during construction should provide a full or outline Construction Management Plan at an appropriate level of detail to allow a robust assessment of the impact of the proposal on air quality and levels of pollution in addition to any noise, vibration or obstruction of the highway in the Plan Area. The CMP should take into account the cumulative impact of development on the Plan Area and demonstrate that the impact of any such vehicle journeys will be appropriately mitigated to minimise their impact on air quality and levels of pollution.
  4. A DSMP or CMP should be implemented using vehicles of no more than 7.5 tonnes unladen weight within the Plan Area, other than in circumstances where this is not feasible, in which case such exceptions must be documented within the relevant plan.
  5. Any proposed mitigation measures necessary to comply with this Policy TT1 will be controlled through condition or Section 106 Agreement.

For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan