Draft travel plan - Planning validation requirements

Description

A draft travel plan takes into account the characteristics of the proposed development such as its location, surrounding transport infrastructure and proximity to local facilities.

Guidance

The statement you submit should include an executive summary and be clear, easy to read and jargon free.

Your draft travel plan must show the ways that transport implications will be managed in order to ensure the minimum environmental, social and economic impacts.

Your report must include details of:

ways of reducing car usage
ways increasing the use of public transport
ways increasing walking and cycling
the implementation strategy you will use
the range of measures and incentives you will use to encourage alternative modes of transport

You should also find details of other transport related matters on our transport assessment and car parking and access pages.

You can get help and advice from our Duty Planner on draft travel plans and other types of planning applications.

You can get detailed feedback on your proposal by using our pre-application advice service.

Personal and confidential statement

We may publish any information you submit as part of your application. You must tell us if there is any information you do not want us to publish when you submit your application.

If however, we believe that this information is in the public interest, we reserve the right to publish it.

We may also decide parts of your submission are not in the public interest and may redact this information. This information may include telephone numbers, email addresses and signatures.

Depending on the details of your application, you need to submit a draft travel plan when you are making an application for:

Commercial, industrial and non-residential, where the proposed development will employ more than 50 people and have a significant impact on the highway
Commercial, industrial and non-residential, where the proposed development is for a new school or an extension to an existing school
Residential new build
- If your proposal is for up to 249 dwellings , you need to submit a travel information pack
- If your proposal is for 250 or more dwellings, you need to submit a full residential travel plan

Required by

National requirement. You can find details of this requirement in section 9 of the National Planning Policy Framework
Local requirement. You can find details of this requirement in:
- Essex County Council Development management policy DM10
Local plan policy - LPP42
Local plan policy - LPP43
Local plan policy - SP6
Local plan policy - SP5
Local plan policy - LPP78

These policies can be found in the Local Plan 2013 - 2033 document