Travel Plan

With the increased emphasis by central government on measures to reduce the use of “single occupancy private vehicles” Travel Plans are now a standard requirement for major developments and are a necessary part of the initial planning submission.

Sanderson Associates have extensive experience in producing Travel Plans or ‘Green Travel Plans’ as they were formerly known. Since their early days the nature of a Travel Plan has however changed significantly and Travel Plans must now be bespoke to the development and its location.

A Travel Plan will normally include: an audit of existing sustainable travel arrangements, a survey of existing travel patterns where an “end user” is known, an outline of the role of the appointed Travel Plan Coordinator, measures to encourage the use of each category of sustainable transport, explanation of the Annual Action Plan, time table of key events, targets and monitoring and liaison arrangements with the Local Planning Authority or Travelwise team.

A Travel Plan is a dynamic document and it is part of the Travel Plan Coordinator's role to carry out the annual travel plan survey and to devise with the Local Planning Authority, or its Travelwise team, the most appropriate measure to be included in the Annual Action Plan to achieve or retain targets for the various modes of travel.

Although Travel Plans originally related to major employment sites this situation has now extended into all forms of development. We have extensive experience in producing travel plans for all types of development including:

• Residential development
• Commercial, industrial and mixed use sites
• Health service providers, including major hospital sites
• Educational establishments
• Retail developments, including foodstores
• Leisure development

We would be delighted to provide you with our competitive fee quotation to provide you with a Travel Plan, please call us on 01924 844080 or click here to visit our online secure server fee quote request form.

Travel Plan Framework

Where an “end user” or “users” is not known a Travel Plan Framework is produced which sets out the above but in a format which will be used to devise subsequent individual plans for each element of the development.

Travel Plan Coordinator

Once approved by the Local Planning Authority the implementation of the Travel Plan necessitates the appointment of a Travel Plan Coordinator. Where appropriate this role is often taken in house by a member of staff employed at the development but with large scale mixed use or residential schemes the role of Travel Plan Coordinator is usually assigned to a specialist provider.

Sanderson Associates have extensive experience in acting as a Travel Plan Coordinator and have recently acted (or are currently acting) as Travel Plan Coordinators in a number of large scale developments some examples being:

• Residential development at Handsworth
• Residential development at Darnley Sheffield
• Retail development at Kilner Way Sheffield
• A mixed retail and distribution (B8) development at Anlaby
• Business Park, Willerby Hill, Hull

We would be pleased to provide you with our competitive fee quotation to enable you to appoint us as your Travel Plan Coordinator, please call us on 01924 844080 or click here to visit our online secure server fee quote request form.