Green Travel Plan

• Posted by David Jones on 6th Jan ’10 at 16:03 UTC
• 0 comments

Green Travel Plan Case Study

Green Travel Plan - Case Study

Evans Jones LLP assists developers and businesses in securing planning permission through the development of Green Travel Plans.

A Green Travel Plan is a document which identifies how to reduce reliance on private cars by encouraging residents, staff or customers to adopt more sustainable methods of travel.

Each site has a unique set of issues and opportunities relating to access and travel options, we assist in identifying current travel patterns, and formulate individual measures which can encourage and facilitate alternative means of travel, thus reducing, or in some cases removing, the need for on-site parking facilities, and achieve a more sustainable form of development.

A recent project tupon which Evans Jones LLP expert advice was sought was for the production of a Green Travel Plan to accompany a planning application for a new doctors surgery in Sittingbourne, Kent. The site for the new surgery was within a large area of new residential development on the edge of Sittingbourne, and the proposed developed sought to increase the capacity of the surgery by approximately 70% with an equivalent increase in staff numbers.

Key to providing a successful Plan was identifying public transport options and other more sustainable ways of travelling to the site, and formulating ways in which staff and patients can be encouraged to choose greener methods of travel.

By formulating a series of short and longer terms objectives, it is expected that the Green Travel Plan, through ongoing monitoring and revisions, will play an important role in reducing the number of vehicle trips associated with the new surgery. An initial staff travel survey will be carried out once the facility is operational, and this will establish existing travel patterns and identify ways in which changes to travel patterns can be encouraged.

Targets will be set with key objectives to encourage car sharing, increased use of public transport, and more cycle trips. These are relatively easy and achievable changes in behaviour which will have a significant and positive benefit in terms of the impact of this new health facility on its surroundings. For further information on Green Travel Plans please click on the following link Green Travel Plans. For specific advice please contact Sara Bagshaw email or telephone 01242 531212