Archived decisions

Hampshire County Council

New Forest Highway and Transport Advisory Panel

8 March 2005

Travel Plan Programmes

Report of the Director of Environment

Item 9

Contact: Jon Foley, ext 7559 email: [email protected]

1. Summary

1.1 This report provides a progress update on the workplace and school travel planning programmes for the New Forest area. It also includes an update on the Safer Routes to Schools programme for schemes within the New Forest area.

2. Workplace Travel Plan Programme

2.1 There are currently 12 organisations developing a travel plan.

2.2 The current status of travel plans in the New Forest area is shown in the table below. An indication of the number of employees covered by the plans has also been given. Individual organisations are not identified for reasons of confidentiality - for example some travel plans are related to planning applications or a change in location that is not yet public knowledge.

Travel Plan Level

Number of businesses

Number of employees*

0 - Has an interest in travel and transport issues but no plan being produced

1

50

1 - Framework travel plan produced (often planning related), inception meeting held or some measures have been implemented

3

2270

2 - Draft travel plan produced and approved by HCC

5

600

3 - Full travel plan produced and approved by HCC. Measures being implemented and reviewed.

3

1600

    * this is an approximation. Not all employee data is complete yet

2.3 The Travel Plan Adviser is currently working to update records by liaising more closely with District Council officers to provide a more complete picture of travel plan activity.

    Travel Plan Partnership Fund

2.4 In June 2004 the Executive Member for Environment approved a £50,000 county-wide allocation from the transport capital programme to the Travel Plan Partnership Fund. Businesses with travel plans were invited to submit bids for matched funding for the provision of 'on-site' facilities to encourage use of a range of modes for journeys to work at their establishments.

2.5 In respect of the New Forest area, Gifford Consulting has been awarded £5,000 Partnership funding for a secure cycle scheme, which is currently awaiting planning consent. Monitoring will be undertaken to establish the success of the project over the coming months.

3. School Travel Plan Programme

3.1 The School Travel Planning Team continues to work with schools to develop School Travel Plans. To date over 330 schools throughout Hampshire have developed or are in the process of developing plans compared with just over 200 as at September 2004.

3.2 Schools with Travel Plans approved by the School Travel Planning Team are eligible for funding through the Safer Routes to School programme, as well as a one-off capital grant from the Department for Education and Skills. The latter is only available to maintained schools.

3.3 The School Travel Planning Team distributed an information leaflet to all the schools within Hampshire in November 2004. This leaflet was intended to raise awareness of School Travel Plans and has resulted in a number of new contacts from schools interested in developing a Travel Plan.

3.4 The team is now engaged with 37 of the 78 schools (71 maintained and

    7 independent) in the New Forest area, compared with 21 schools as at September 2004. A summary of the current status of all School Travel Plans in the New Forest area is shown as a table below. More detail is shown in the attached Appendix.

Travel Plan Level

Number of schools

Level 0 - Interest shown

15

Level 1 - Initial work on travel plan started

9

Level 2 - Draft travel plan completed

5

Level 3 - Final travel plan submitted and approved

8

P- Travel plan submitted for planning application

0

C- Contacted awaiting response

41

4. Safer Routes to School Programme

4.1 The Safer Routes to Schools programme links very closely with the development of the School Travel Plan programme. One of the objectives of a School Travel Plan is to encourage as many children as possible to be active and independent by walking, cycling or using public transport to get to and from school on a regular basis. This could be through a combination of physical and other measures. If physical works are identified within the approved School Travel Plan then the school can bid for funding from the Safer Routes to Schools programme.

4.2 On 21 January 2005 the Executive Member for Environment agreed an indicative allocation of £1.5 million for a county-wide programme of Safer Routes to Schools schemes from the 2005/06 Capital Programme.

4.3 When a proposal for highway improvements is received from a school with a completed School Travel Plan the feasibility is assessed to determine the scale, implications, costs and benefits. As more proposals come forward, this allows the priorities to be determined for inclusion in the programme. The current status of potential and actual schemes is shown in the attached Appendix.

Recommendation

That Members note the progress made with the delivery of the Workplace and School Travel Planning and Safer Routes to School programmes in the New Forest area.

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New Forest Highway and Transport Advisory Panel APPENDIX

School Travel Plan levels as at 26 January 2005

School Name

School Travel Plan Level

Date level achieved

SRTS scheme

SRTS Scheme year

SRTS Allocation £000's

Infant

          

Ashley Infant School

1 (C)

11/01/2005

      

Blackfield Infant School

0 (C)

30/09/2004

      

Calmore Infant School

C

        

Copythorne C E Infant School

3

01/05/2001

Pedestrian improvements

2003/2004

4

Eling Infant School

C

        

Fawley Infant School

C

        

Fordingbridge Infant School

0

25/11/2004

      

Foxhills Infant School, Colbury

2 (1)

08/10/2004

      

Hazel Wood Infant School, Totton

C

        

Holbury Infant School

C

        

Langdown Infant School, Hythe

C

        

Lydlynch Infant School, Totton

3

01/02/2003

Pedestrian improvements

2003/2004

1

Lymington C E Infant School

1 (C)

19/01/2005

      

Manor Infant School, Holbury

C

        

Marchwood C E Infant School

1 (C)

02/12/2004

      

Netley Marsh C E Infant School, Woodlands

3

01/07/2002

Pedestrian improvements

2002/2003

23

New Milton Infant School

C

        

Orchard Infant School, Dibden Purlieu

2

01/10/2003

Awaiting level 3 STP

2005/06

37

Pennington Infant School, Lymington

3 (C)

23/12/2004

At feasibility

2005/2006

tbc

Poulner Infant School

C

  

Measures including signing and lining

Completed

16

Ringwood C E Infant School

C

        

St Michael and All Angels C E Infant School, Lyndhurst

0 (C)

11/11/2004

      

Wildground Infant School, Dibden Purlieu

C

        

Junior

          

Abbotswood Junior School, Totton

C

        

Ashley Junior School

C

        

Bartley C E Junior School

0 (C)

17/12/2004

      

Blackfield Junior School

C

        

Calmore Junior School

0 (C)

10/12/2004

      

Fordingbridge Junior School

0

25/11/2004

      

Foxhills Junior School, Colbury

2 (1)

08/10/2004

      

Holbury Junior School

1 (C)

20/01/2005

      

Langdown Junior School, Hythe

C

        

Lymington Junior School

0

10/12/2004

      

Marchwood Junior School

C

        

New Milton Junior School

C

        

Orchard Junior School, Dibden Purlieu

C

        

Pennington C E Junior School, Lymington

3 (1)

23/12/2004

At feasibility

2005/2006

tbc

Poulner Junior School

C

  

Measures including signing and lining

Completed

16

Ringwood Junior School

C

        

Wildground Junior School, Dibden Purlieu

C

        
           

Primary

          

Beaulieu Village Primary School

C

        

Bransgore C E Primary School

0

06/12/2004

      

Breamore C E Primary School

C

        

Brockenhurst C E Primary School

C

        

Burley Primary School

0 (C)

08/12/2004

      

Hale Primary School

1 (0)

15/11/2004

      

Hordle C E Primary School

0 (C)

17/01/2005

      

Hyde C E Primary School

1 (C)

07/12/2004

      

Hythe Primary School

0 (C)

22/12/2004

      

Primary continued

          

Milford-on-Sea C E Primary School

2 (0)

30/12/2004

      

Oakfield Primary School, Totton

C

        

Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic Primary School, Lymington

C

        

Sopley Primary School, South Ripley

0 (C)

06/12/2004

      

South Baddesley C E Primary School

0 (C)

11/11/2004

      

St Luke's C E Primary School, Sway

3

01/06/2001

Footway widening, signing and lining.

Completed

12

Tiptoe Primary School

3

29/03/2004

Further measures on highway tbc - at feasibility

2005/2006

tbc

Western Downland C E Aided Primary School, Rockbourne

2 (0)

08/09/2004

      

William Gilpin C E Primary School, Boldre

C

        
           

Secondary

          

Applemore College, Dibden Purlieu

C

        

Hardley School and Sixth Form, Holbury

1 (0)

23/09/2004

      

Hounsdown School

3

01/06/2002

Scheme inside school gate - being designed by PB&R, exact details tbc

2005/06

130

Noadswood School, Dibden Purlieu

C

        

Priestlands School, Lymington

1

11/10/2004

      

Ringwood School

C

        

Testwood School, Totton

C

        

The Arnewood School, New Milton

0 (C)

07/02/2005

      

The Burgate School and Sixth Form Centre, Fordingbridge

1

14/04/2003

      
           

Special

          

Forest Education Centre, Dibden Purlieu

C

        

Forest Edge School, Totton

C

        

Oak Lodge School, Dibden Purlieu

C

        

Special continued

          

Salterns School, Totton

0

06/08/2004

      
           

Independent

          

Ballard School, New Milton

C

        

Coxlease School, Lyndhurst

C

        

Durlston Court School, Barton-on-sea

C

        

Forres Sandle Manor School, Sandle Manor

C

        

Hill House School, Boldre

C

        

Moyles Court School, Rockford

C

        

Southlands School, Boldre

C

        

Key:

0 Interest shown

1 Initial work on travel plan started

2 Draft travel plan completed

3 Final travel plan submitted and approved

P Travel plan submitted for planning application

C Contacted, awaiting response

() School Travel Plan Level at time of last HTAP. No change to level if not shown.