Issue - meetings

To advise the Committee of the threshold for requiring travel plans, guidance used to identify best practice and issues surrounding effective delivery.

The Committee considered a report, previously circulated, on the Council’s policy around the threshold for requiring travel plans, guidance used to identify best practice and issues surrounding effective delivery. The Committee was asked to consider and support the suggestion that applications requiring a travel plan not be validated until the plan was submitted, and that all travel plans be secured by s106 agreement, in order to strengthen the Council’s processes for requiring, implementing and monitoring travel plans.

The Committee welcomed the idea of strengthening the Council’s processes for monitoring travel plans, as enforcement around this issue was essential in order to avoid problems in future. In response to a question from the Committee, it was confirmed that policy around travel plans was updated on a regular basis, in line with guidance issued by Transport for London. It was reported that this and other issues were looked at by the planning policy group, to ensure that policies were complementary and based on local evidence.