Integration of Transportation and Land Use Strategy

The Council will work with its statutory partners to actively promote and manage sustainable patterns of growth that make the fullest use of public transport with enhanced accessibility for all across our Borough. This will be achieved by: (a) The Spatial Growth Strategy promoting growth in those Places of the Borough that benefit from good accessibility to public transport provision; (b) Encouraging higher density and mixed use development schemes and the co-location of facilities in places that benefit from good accessibility to public transport provision; (c) Allocating any new sites required for homes or employment in the Local Policies Plan in locations that are accessible or that can be made more accessible by a variety of modes of transport; (d) Allocating any new sites for storage and distribution facilities at locations that benefit from ease of access onto the Regional Strategic Road Network; (e) Requiring new development to bring forward measures that will promote enhanced pedestrian and cycle linkages to surrounding services and facilities and improved access to existing and planned public transport infrastructure and services; and (f) Promoting improvements to the Borough's Wi-Fi, fibre optic broadband and mobile broadband services to reduce the need to travel, encourage more home working and support inward investment.