In this chapter

• Introduction to development management policy
• Housing
• Climate change
• Nature and ecosystem services
• Green Belt
• Jobs and economy
• Healthy, vibrant and inclusive communities
• Heritage and design
• Sustainable transport
  • Policy ST/HS: Promoting sustainable travel and healthy streets
  • Policy ST/AT: Active travel routes
  • Policy ST/RMD: Transport requirements for managing development
• Pollution, contamination and safety
• Minerals and waste
• Waste
• Infrastructure

Sustainable transport

9.439 The Sustainable Transport Policies were reviewed through the Local Plan Partial Update. The primary purpose of this was to better align policy with the Climate Emergency and strengthen the sustainability requirements for transport. The revised policies went through Examination, were found sound and adopted. The policies align with national policy and have been applied for more than 12 months since adoption, and are considered to be working well.

9.440 The review of these policies for the Local Plan considers whether they could be strengthened, clarified or updated, based on experience of applying the policies through Development Management, and Industry Best Practice.

Policy options

Warning We are presenting policy options for three different aspects of Sustainable transport policy. We recommend reading through the policy information and options for all of this section together, to get a fuller idea of our approach to this policy area.

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More on this topic

View the Transport Evidence Base documents for in-depth focus about this topic, and the evidence which informs our policy. Visit our library of Local Plan Options supporting documents to learn more.