Policy information sourced from the Slough Core Strategy

CORE POLICY 7 (TRANSPORT)

All new development should reinforce the principles of the transport strategy as set out in the council’s Local Transport Plan and Spatial Strategy, which seek to ensure that new development is sustainable and is located in the most accessible locations, thereby reducing the need to travel.

Development proposals will, either individually or collectively, have to make appropriate provisions for:

  • Reducing the need to travel;
  • Widening travel choices and making travel by sustainable means of transport more attractive than the private car;
  • Improving road safety; and
  • Improving air quality and reducing the impact of travel upon the environment, in particular climate change.

Development proposals will also have make contributions to, or provision for:

  • The development of Slough town centre as a Regional Transport Hub;
  • The improvement of key transport corridors such as the links to Heathrow Airport;
  • Improvements to Slough, Burnham and Langley railway stations; and
  • The creation of a transport hub within Slough Trading Estate.

There will be no overall increase in the number of parking spaces permitted within commercial redevelopment schemes unless this is required for local road safety or operational reasons. Maximum restraint will be applied to parking for residential schemes in the town centre. In the rest of the Borough, the level of parking within residential development will be appropriate to both its location and the scale of the development and taking account of local parking conditions, the impact upon the street scene and the need to overcome road safety problems and protect the amenities of adjoining residents.

Policy information sourced from the Slough Core Strategy