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Hampshire County Council Hart Highway and Transport Advisory Panel 14 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 plan programmes for the Hart area. It also includes an update on the Safer Routes to Schools programme for schemes within the Hart area.
2 Workplace Travel Plan Programme
2.1 There are currently three organisations developing a travel plan, which is the same position as reported to the last Panel meeting in October 2004.
2.2 The current status of travel plans in the Hart 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 |
0 |
0 |
1 - Framework travel plan produced (often planning related), inception meeting held or some measures have been implemented |
3+ |
1,620 |
2 - Draft travel plan produced and approved by HCC |
0 |
0 |
3 - Full travel plan produced and approved by HCC. Measures being implemented and reviewed. |
0 |
0 |
* this is an approximation. Not all employee data is yet complete.
+ the Travel Plan Adviser is also working with the Blackwater Valley and Hart Primary Care Trust, which is registered in the Rushmoor district figures.
2.3 The Travel Plan Adviser is currently liaising with district officers so that more accurate records of travel plan activity can be provided.
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 November 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 working with District Council officers and is engaged with 19 of the 42 schools (35 maintained and 7 independent) in the Hart area, compared with 8 schools as at October 2004. A summary of the current status of all School Travel Plans in Hart is shown in the following table. More detail is shown in the appendix.
Travel Plan Level |
Number of schools |
Level 0 - Interest shown |
7 |
Level 1 - Initial work on travel plan started |
8 |
Level 2 - Draft travel plan completed |
1 |
Level 3 - Final travel plan submitted and approved |
3 |
P- Travel plan submitted for planning application |
0 |
C- Contacted awaiting response |
23 |
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 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 Hart area.
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APPENDIX
HART HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORT ADVISORY PANEL
SCHOOL TRAVEL PLAN LEVELS AS AT 31 JANUARY 2005
School Name |
School Travel Plan Level |
Date level achieved |
SRTS scheme |
SRTS Scheme year |
SRTS Allocation £000's |
Infant |
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Buryfields Infant School, Odiham |
1 (C) |
16/11/2004 |
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Crookham C E Aided Infant School, Church Crookham |
0 (C) |
22/12/2004 |
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Fleet Infant School |
1 (C) |
11/01/2005 |
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Frogmore Infant School |
1 (C) |
19/01/2005 |
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Heatherside Infant School, Fleet |
1 (C) |
03/12/2004 |
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Hook Infant School |
C |
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Oakwood Infant School, Hartley Wintney |
C |
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Tavistock Infant School, Fleet |
0 (C) |
06/12/2004 |
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Tweseldown Infant School, Church Crookham |
C |
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Westfields Infant School, Yateley |
3 |
01/09/2002 |
20 mph School Safety Zone |
2003/04 |
10 |
Yateley Infant School |
C |
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School Name |
School Travel Plan Level |
Date level achieved |
SRTS scheme |
SRTS Scheme year |
SRTS Allocation £000's |
Junior |
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All Saints C E (Aided) Junior School, Fleet |
0 (C) |
10/12/2004 |
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Church Crookham Junior School |
C |
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Frogmore Junior School |
C |
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Greenfields Junior School, Hartley Wintney |
C |
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Heatherside Junior School, Fleet |
1 (C) |
16/07/2004 |
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Hook Junior School |
C |
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Mayhill Junior School, Odiham |
1 (C) |
16/11/2004 |
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St Peter's C E Junior School, Yateley |
C |
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Velmead Junior School, Fleet |
C |
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Westfields Junior School, Yateley |
C |
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Primary |
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Charles Kingsley's C E Primary School, Eversley |
2 (0) |
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Crondall Primary School |
0 (C) |
20/01/2005 |
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Dogmersfield C E Primary School |
C |
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Elvetham Heath Primary School |
0 |
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Hawley Primary School, Blackwater |
0 (C) |
22/11/2004 |
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Long Sutton C E Primary School |
C |
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Newlands Primary School, Yateley |
C |
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Potley Hill Primary School, Yateley |
1 |
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Whitewater C E Primary School, Rotherwick |
0 |
School Name |
School Travel Plan Level |
Date level achieved |
SRTS scheme |
SRTS Scheme year |
SRTS Allocation £000's |
Secondary |
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Calthorpe Park School, Fleet |
C |
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Court Moor School, Fleet |
C |
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Frogmore Community College, Yateley |
1 |
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Robert May's, Odiham |
3 |
01/07/2002 |
tbc - design currently underway |
2005/06 |
55 |
Yateley School |
C |
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Independent |
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Grey House Preparatory School, Hartley Wintney |
C |
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Hawley Place School, Blackwater |
C |
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Lord Wandsworth College, Long Sutton |
C |
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St Neot's School, Eversley |
C |
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St Nicholas' School, Church Crookham |
C |
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Stockton House School, Fleet |
C |
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Yateley Manor School, Yateley |
3 |
04/11/2004 |
Scheme under consideration |
2005/06 |
tbc |
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.