Archived decisions

Hampshire County Council

Basingstoke and Deane Highway and Transport Advisory Panel

6 April 2005

Travel Plan Programmes

Report of the Director of Environment

Item 10

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 Basingstoke and Deane area. It also includes an update on the Safer Routes To Schools programme for schemes within the Basingstoke and Deane area.

2. Workplace Travel Plan Programme

2.1 There are currently 24 organisations developing a travel plan, compared to 23 reported to the last Panel meeting in November 2004.

2.2 The current status of travel plans in the Basingstoke and Deane 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

9

5020

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

8

2850

2 - Draft travel plan produced and approved by HCC

4

7230

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

3

50

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

2.3 The Travel Plan Adviser is currently liaising with borough officers so that more accurate records of travel plan activity can be provided.

      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. The organisations who have been awarded Partnership Funding together with a summary of their progress is outlined below. Monitoring will be undertaken to establish the success of the projects over the coming months.

    (i) Queen Mary's College: £5,000 for footpath lighting, cycle parking and secure lockers. This work is currently being undertaken and will be completed by the end of March 2005.

    (ii) Scott Wilson: £1,716 for cycle parking. Project complete. Awaiting invoice.

    (iii) MEPC Chineham Park: £5,000 for advertising shuttle bus service. Awaiting invoice.

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 engaged with 42 of the 85 schools (76 maintained and 9 independent) in the Basingstoke and Deane area, compared with 25 schools as at November 2004. Interest has also been shown from an independent school in respect of a planning application. A summary of the current status of all School Travel Plans in Basingstoke and Deane is shown as a table below. More detail is shown in the appendix.

    Travel Plan Level

    Number of schools

    Level 0 - Interest shown

    6

    Level 1 - Initial work on travel plan started

    19

    Level 2 - Draft travel plan completed

    8

    Level 3 - Final travel plan submitted and approved

    7

    P- Travel plan submitted for planning application

    2

    C- Contacted awaiting response

    43

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 School 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. A key part of the County Council's plan to meet this target is 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 Basingstoke and Deane area.

5.3 A total of 32,000 households in the Basingstoke urban area were contacted and asked if they wished to participate in the project. Approximately 11,000 households responded of which 6,500 were interested in receiving the marketing materials available through the project. The impact of the provision of this information on local bus patronage is currently being assessed and will be reported to the next meeting of the Panel. For information, the results from the first wave of this project (in the Gosport-Fareham area) show that a 6% increase in patronage was secured as a result of the InfoMotion project.

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 Basingstoke and Deane area.

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background papers

 

The following documents disclose facts or matters on which this report, or an important part of it, is based and has been relied upon to a material extent in the preparation of this report.

 

NB the list excludes:

 

1.

Published works.

 

2.

Documents which disclose exempt or confidential information as defined in the Act.

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APPENDIX

BASINGSTOKE AND DEANE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORT ADVISORY PANEL

School Travel Plan levels as at 16 February 2005

School Name

School Travel Plan Level

Date Level Achieved

SRTS Scheme

SRTS Scheme year

SRTS Allocation £000's

           

Infant

          

Bishopswood Infant School, Tadley

C

        

Burnham Copse Infant School, Tadley

C

        

Castle Hill Infant School, Basingstoke

1 (C)

29/11/2004

      

Four Lanes Infant School, Chineham

C

        

Hatch Warren Infant School, Basingstoke

1 (C)

18/01/2005

      

Kempshott Infant School

C

        

King's Furlong Infant School and Nursery, Basingstoke

C

        

Manor Field Infant School, Basingstoke

C

        

Marnel Community Infant School, Basingstoke

2

31/05/2002

      

Merton Infant School, Basingstoke

2

17/01/2005

      

Oakley Infant School, Basingstoke

1 (C)

06/10/2004

      

Oakridge Infant School, Basingstoke

2

08/11/2004

      

Old Basing Infant School

C

        

Park View Infant School, Basingstoke

C

        

School Name

School Travel Plan Level

Date Level Achieved

SRTS Scheme

SRTS Scheme year

SRTS Allocation £000's

Infant (contd)

          

South View Infant School, Basingstoke

C

        

St Thomas' C E Infant School, Woolton Hill

3

01/04/2003

Currently having further consulta-tion and detailed design, it is hoped this scheme will be implemented in the school summer holidays. See also Woolton Hill Junior School.

2005/06

105

Winklebury Infant School, Basingstoke

C

        
           

Junior

          

Bishopswood Junior School, Tadley

C

        

Burnham Copse Junior School, Tadley

C

        

Castle Hill Junior School, Basingstoke

1 (C)

29/11/2004

      

Four Lanes Community Junior School, Chineham

0

01/06/2004

      

Hatch Warren Junior School, Basingstoke

1 (C)

13/01/2005

      

Kempshott Junior School

C

        

Kings Furlong Junior School, Basingstoke

C

        

Manor Field Junior School, Basingstoke

C

        

Marnel Junior School, Basingstoke

2

31/05/2002

      

Merton Junior School, Basingstoke

2

31/05/2002

      

Oakley C E Junior School, Basingstoke

1 (C)

06/10/2004

      

School Name

School Travel Plan Level

Date Level Achieved

SRTS Scheme

SRTS Scheme year

SRTS Allocation £000's

Junior (contd)

          

Oakridge Junior School, Basingstoke

2

08/11/2004

      

Park View Junior School, Basingstoke

C

        

South View Junior School, Basingstoke

1 (C)

03/02/2005

      

St Mary's C E Voluntary Aided Junior School, Old Basing

C

        

Winklebury Junior School, Basingstoke

C

        

Woolton Hill Junior School

3

01/04/2003

See St Thomas' C E Infant School

   
           

Primary

          

Ashford Hill Primary School

3

29/03/2004

tbc - at feasibility

tbc

tbc

Bramley C E Primary School

3

01/11/2000

      

Burghclere Primary School

1 (0)

11/05/2004

      

Chalk Ridge Primary School, Basingstoke

1

27/05/2004

      

Chiltern Primary School, Basingstoke

C

        

Chineham Park Primary School, Basingstoke

2

31/05/2002

      

Cliddesden Primary School

C

        

Ecchinswell and Sydmonton C E Primary School, Ecchinswell

C

        

Fairfields Primary School, Basingstoke

C

        

Great Binfields Primary School, Chineham

3

17/01/2002

      

School Name

School Travel Plan Level

Date Level Achieved

SRTS Scheme

SRTS Scheme year

SRTS Allocation £000's

Primary (contd)

          

Kingsclere C E Primary School

1 (C)

21/09/2004

      

North Waltham Primary School

1 (C)

11/01/2005

      

Overton C E Primary School

0

01/02/2004

      

Preston Candover C E Primary School

C

        

Rucstall Primary School, Basingstoke

1 (C)

13/01/2005

      

Sherborne St John C E Primary School

C

        

Silchester C E Primary School

C

        

St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Basingstoke

C

        

St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Basingstoke

2

31/05/2002

      

St John's C E Voluntary Aided Primary School, Basingstoke

C

        

St Mark's C E Primary School, Basingstoke

P (C)

13/11/2004

      

St Martin's East Woodhay C E (A) Primary School, East End

C

        

St Mary Bourne Primary School

0 (C)

22/12/2004

      

Tadley Community Primary School

1 (C)

04/11/2004

      

The Priory Primary School, Pamber End

3

29/03/2004

tbc - at feasibility

tbc

tbc

Whitchurch C E Primary School

2

30/06/2004

      
           

School Name

School Travel Plan Level

Date Level Achieved

SRTS Scheme

SRTS Scheme year

SRTS Allocation £000's

Secondary

          

Aldworth Science College, Basingstoke

1

28/05/2004

      

Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School, Basingstoke

C

        

Brighton Hill Community College, Basingstoke

C

        

Costello Technology College, Basingstoke

1

        

Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College, Basingstoke

1 (C)

28/09/2004

      

Fort Hill Community School, Basingstoke

C

        

John Hunt of Everest Community School

3

20/09/2002

      

Testbourne Community School, Whitchurch

1

05/07/2004

      

The Clere School and Technology College, Burghclere

C

        

The Hurst Community College, Baughurst

0 (C)

22/12/2004

      

The Vyne Community School, Basingstoke

0 (C)

10/12/2004

      
           

Special

          

Dove House School, Basingstoke

0 (C)

10/12/2004

      

Limington House School, Basingstoke

C

        

Maple Ridge School, Basingstoke

1 (0)

14/06/2004

      

Saxon Wood School, Basingstoke

C

        

Basingstoke School Plus, Basingstoke

C

        
           

School Name

School Travel Plan Level

Date Level Achieved

SRTS Scheme

SRTS Scheme year

SRTS Allocation £000's

Independent

          

Cheam School, Headley

C

        

Daneshill School, Stratfield Turgis

C

        

Grantham Farm Montessori School, Baughurst

C

        

Horris Hill School, Newtown

C

        

Sherfield School, Sherfield-on-Loddon

P

01/09/2004

      

St Michael's School, Burghclere

C

        

The King's School, Basingstoke

C

        

The Loddon School, Sherfield-on-Loddon

C

        

Thorngrove School, Highclere

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.