Draft Core Strategy (incorporating Preferred Options) October 2010
Draft Core Strategy (incorporating Preferred Options)
Generic District Wide Modal Shift
10.8 These District wide measures are aimed at reducing single car occupancy, the need to travel or encouraging the use of more sustainable travel or alternative fuels where travel is necessary. They include:
- Car share schemes – details of benefits and how to join;
- Local bus information – timetable & maps of nearest routes and interchanges (including interchange with rail) and details connecting local bus, and longer distance travel such as express coach and trains;
- Maps showing local footpaths and cycle ways, bus stops, and location of facilities such as health, education, shops, employment, churches, recreation & leisure;
- Details of cycle training, cycle/equipment sales & repairs, cycle clubs and health benefits;
- Information on the health benefits of walking.
- Designed-in specific work area (e.g. space for desk, computer, phone);
- Broadband connections.
All new residential and employment developments in South Somerset should:
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Provide Travel Information Packs
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Provide for the charging of electric vehicles with an external 13-amp charging point adjacent to each parking space and within the curtilage of the site. Garages within the development should also include a 13-amp socket.
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Provide a Green Travel Voucher for each occupier/employee for 1 year for use on sustainable transport
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Include Travel Plans (commensurate with Policy TA2)
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Ensure that sustainable transport measures are in place and operational concurrent with first occupancy.
Additionally, developments of all new residential dwellings should:
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Enable ease of working from home by providing a designed in specific work area with Broadband connections.
Residential developments of 10 dwellings or more and employment sites with a floor space greater than 1000 sq m should also:
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Deliver improved public transport connections increasing accessibility through enhancements to either existing conventional bus routes or existing Demand Responsive Transport schemes or the provision of new services and new bus stops, bus timetables and bus shelters commensurate with the scale of the development that enable good on-going connections with the public transport network. The developer will be required to enter into a planning obligation in accordance with Policy SS7 to ensure provision of such facilities, which shall be provided prior to first occupation of the new development.
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