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Hampshire County Council Fareham Highway and Transport Advisory Panel 15 March 2005 Travel Plan Programmes (including Safer Routes to School) 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, school and personalised travel planning programmes for the Fareham area. It also includes an update on the Safer Routes to School programme for schemes within the Fareham area.
2. Workplace Travel Plan Programme
2.1 There are currently nine organisations developing a travel plan, compared to seven reported at the last meeting of this Panel in September 2004.
2.2 The current status of travel plans in the Fareham 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 |
285 |
2 - Draft travel plan produced and approved by HCC |
3 |
1,450 |
3 - Full travel plan produced and approved by HCC. Measures being implemented and reviewed. |
3 |
3,385 |
* 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 officers in the district to provide a more complete picture of travel plan activity.
3. School Travel Plan Programme
3.1 The School Travel Planning Team continue 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 state 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 29 of the 45 schools in the Fareham, compared with 12 schools as at September 2004. A summary of the current status of all School Travel Plans in Fareham is shown as a table below. More detail is shown in the attached appendix.
Travel Plan Level |
Number of schools |
Level 0 - Interest shown |
6 |
Level 1 - Initial work on travel plan started |
15 |
Level 2 - Draft travel plan completed |
2 |
Level 3 - Final travel plan submitted and approved |
6 |
P- Travel plan submitted for planning application |
0 |
C- Contacted awaiting response |
16 |
4. Safer Routes to School Programme
4.1 The Safer Routes to School 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 School 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.
5. Personalised Travel Planning
5.1 One of the County Council's Public Service Agreement targets is to increase bus passenger numbers. As Members may recall a key part of the County Council's plan to meet this target was a personalised travel planning project called `InfoMotion'. Personalised travel planning is a process whereby individuals are provided with tailored public transport timetable information and free trial travel vouchers for use on local public transport.
5.2 The initiative started in September 2003 and has recently ended. The project was divided into four waves covering Hampshire's busiest bus routes. The second wave, which took place between May and July 2004, included the marketing of local buses to households in the Fareham area. The results from this wave of the project show an encouraging 6% increase in bus patronage in the area.
5.3 The overall results of the whole project are currently being assessed and will form an important part of determining the role of such marketing activity in future transport proposals for the county.
Recommendation
That Members note the progress made with the delivery of the workplace, school and personalised travel planning and Safer Routes to School programmes in the Fareham area.
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Appendix
Fareham 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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Crofton Anne Dale Infant School, Stubbington |
1(C) |
05/01/2005 |
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Crofton Hammond Infant School, Stubbington |
1 (C) |
04/10/2004 |
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Locks Heath Infant School |
C |
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Northern Infant School, Portchester |
1 (0) |
11/10/2004 |
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Orchard Lea Infant School, Fareham |
C |
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Ranvilles Infant School, Fareham |
1 (C) |
14/01/2005 |
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Sarisbury Infant School, Sarisbury Green |
3 |
01/09/2003 |
School Crossing Patrol upgrade |
2005/2006 |
5 |
Wallisdean Infant School, Fareham |
0 (C) |
10/02/2005 |
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Junior |
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Crofton Anne Dale Junior School, Stubbington |
1 (C) |
05/01/2005 |
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Crofton Hammond Junior School, Stubbington |
1 (C) |
04/10/2004 |
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Locks Heath Junior School |
C |
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Northern Junior Community School, Portchester |
C |
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Orchard Lea Junior School, Fareham |
1 (C) |
16/09/2004 |
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Ranvilles Junior School, Fareham |
1 (C) |
14/01/2005 |
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Sarisbury Church of England School, Sarisbury Green |
C |
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Wallisdean Junior School, Fareham |
C |
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Primary |
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Castle Primary School, Portchester |
2 |
19/05/2004 |
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Harrison Primary School, Fareham |
1 |
13/10/2004 |
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Hook-With-Warsash C E Primary School, Warsash |
2 |
02/08/2004 |
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Oak Meadow C E (Controlled) Primary School, Fareham |
C |
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Park Gate Primary School |
1 (C) |
01/12/2004 |
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Red Barn Community Primary School, Portchester |
0 (C) |
24/01/2005 |
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Redlands Primary School, Fareham |
C |
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St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Titchfield Common |
3 |
01/11/2002 |
SRTS measures including signing and lining completed. |
2004/2005 |
10 |
St John the Baptist C E Primary School, Titchfield Common |
0 (C) |
10/01/2005 |
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St Jude's Catholic Primary School, Fareham |
C |
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Titchfield Primary School |
0 |
10/12/2004 |
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Uplands Primary School, Fareham |
0 |
01/10/2003 |
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Whiteley Primary School |
3 |
01/06/1999 |
Awaiting revised School Travel Plan |
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Wicor Primary School, Portchester |
1 (C) |
17/11/2004 |
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Secondary |
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Brookfield Community School and Language College, Sarisbury Green |
3 |
01/04/2004 |
At feasibility, to be designed |
2005/2006 |
tbc |
Cams Hill School, Fareham |
1 (C) |
01/10/2004 |
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Crofton School, Stubbington |
1 (C) |
17/11/2004 |
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Portchester Community School |
3 |
01/06/2003 |
Phase 1 - Cycle shelter Phase 2 - at feasibility, to be designed. |
2005/06 Future year |
10 tbc |
Secondary continued |
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The Henry Cort Community College, Fareham |
3 |
01/09/2002 |
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The Neville Lovett Community School and Continuing Education Centre, Fareham |
C |
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Special |
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Baycroft School, Stubbington |
1 (0) |
17/11/2004 |
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Heathfield School, Fareham |
C |
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Lord Wilson School, Sarisbury Green |
C |
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St Francis Special School, Fareham |
C |
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Independent |
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Boundary Oak School, Fareham |
C |
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Hill Head Pre-Preparatory School |
C |
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Meoncross School, Stubbington |
0 |
12/11/2004 |
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West Hill Park School, Tichfield |
C |
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Wykeham House School, Fareham |
1 |
26/04/2004 |
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.