Policy information sourced from Thurrock Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development
PMD10 – TRANSPORT ASSESSMENTS AND TRAVEL PLANS
Transport Assessments, Transport Statements, and Travel Plans must accompany planning applications in accordance with the Department for Transport guidance in Guidance on Transport Assessments (March 2007).
- Travel Plans must be consistent with Council policies. They will normally be secured through planning obligations, although planning conditions might suffice where this will clearly be the best option because the outcomes and measures required are simple and very clear, such as where the travel plan is for an existing use.
- All developments that fall below the thresholds for individual Travel Plans will be expected to support the Council’s Smarter Choices programme or Area Wide Travel Plans.
- Where schools add capacity through development or new schools are proposed, they will be required to develop a School Travel Plan or revise their existing Travel Plan.
- Proposals for residential developments of 25 units or more should be accompanied by a ‘Safe Routes to School’ assessment.
- Development will only be permitted where the Travel Plans, Transport Assessments or Transport Statements are agreed by the Council and there is adequate provision for existing or planned transport infrastructure and other proposed measures.
Proposed mitigation measures will either be implemented in their entirety by or on behalf of the developer or will be implemented as part of a wider pooling of resources. Developers will be required to make provision for the objectives of the agreed Travel Plans to be monitored. Agreed Travel Plans will include targets, coupled with penalties if outcomes are not being met.
Where adequate affordable mitigation is not secured or achievable and the residual cumulative impacts of development proposals are likely to be severe, such developments will be resisted.
For more information please see the Core Strategy and Policies for Management of Development