Local Transport Plan 3 (2011-2026)

Swindon Borough Council is preparing a new Local Transport Plan (LTP) to set out its plans and strategies for maintaining and improving all aspects of our local transport system for the period 2011 to 2026. This work is being taken forward alongside the Local Development Framework process. By doing so the Council intends to better integrate land use and transport planning activities alongside broader community aspirations.

Transport is an issue for everybody. It is a key factor in helping to support economic growth and regeneration, increasing accessibility to jobs and everyday services, improving the environment, addressing climate change concerns and helping tackle poverty. The opportunities available to people in how, when and where they travel have a major impact on transport patterns as well as on wider quality of life.

Local Transport Plan 3 Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

This builds upon the framework of the Swindon Transport Strategy (2009).

The Scoping Report uses a topic-based approach to describe the existing baseline, key messages from the plans, programmes review and key issues for the LTP3.

It is available as a series of downloadable PDF files:

• SEA Scoping Report (953Kb)
• SEA Scoping Report Appendix I - Review of Relevant Plans and Programmes (614Kb)
• SEA Scoping Report Appendix II - Baseline Data (499Kb)
• SEA Scoping Report Appendix III - Indicators (277Kb)
• SEA Scoping Report Appendix IV - Compliance Review (108Kb)

Your Comments

Unfortunately, the period of consultation has now ended.

The Current Plan

We are currently just over half way through the current Local Transport Plan period (2006-2011). Considerable work has been undertaken to deliver a well maintained, safer and integrated transport network for all those who live, work in or visit Swindon. A detailed progress report for the period 2006-2008 has been published.

LTP2 Summary

The Second Local Transport Plan 2006-2011(LTP) is a five-year strategy submitted to Government, which must be produced by every authority with a statutory responsibility for transport. It sets out the transport objectives, which the Council wants to achieve over the next five years.

Swindon Borough council’s second Local Transport Plan contains three major elements:

• Work to maximise existing junction efficiency: computer controlled Urban Traffic Management Systems, Variable Message Signs (for example, to ensure drivers take the most direct route to the nearest car park, which will also ensure much more efficient use of those car parks).
• Work to maximise bus efficiency: real-time information network, new/updated bus station, selective vehicle detection at traffic signals and bus gates, traffic management schemes to achieve bus priority measures; and
• Work to raise awareness of opportunities for alternatives to driving alone: school travel plans, employer travel plans, development control and management, working with Swindon Primary Care Trust (PCT) to tackle obesity and create a culture of activity.

We welcome any comments on the documents throughout the Local Transport Plan period.

Strategic Environmental Assessment

All local authorities are required by law to produce an Environmental Report about the likely significant environmental impacts of the measures proposed in their Local Transport Plan. The Strategic Environmental Assessment  process helped the Council to investigate options and develop the strategy now adopted for transport in the Borough over the next five years. Click on the link below to read the Environmental Report: or on the link to section 3 (paragraphs 3.60 to 3.83) for a summary of the work and findings.

Swindon Borough Council's second Local Transport Plan will have a positive effect on the environment, and where schemes have been proposed that will involve larger-scale construction, the statutory environmental surveys will be undertaken and appropriate mitigation works ensured.

As part of the Council's commitment to ensuring that the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) objectives and indicators are monitored on an annual basis, the following link will be updated through the life of the SEA:

SEA Monitoring Table

Local Transport Plan: Executive Summary and Contents

Local Transport Plan: Section 1

Local Transport Plan: Section 2

Local Transport Plan Section 3

Local Transport Plan: Section 4 (pages 100-149)

Local Transport Plan: Section 4 (pages 150-200)

Local Transport Plan: Section 4 (pages 201-228)

Local Transport Plan: Section 4 (pages 229-256)

Local Transport Plan: Sections 5 and 6

Local Transport Plan: IndexLink

Local Transport Plan: Appendices

Local_Transport_Plan_Figures

Local Transport Plan Environmental Report

North Swindon Transport Strategy Major Scheme Bid

Environmental Designation Areas

New Swindon Company Regeneration Areas

Progress Report 2008

Please find below a link to the LTP Progress report 2008. This reviews our progress in Swindon's second Local Transport Plan to date, and how we look forward to the end of LTP2.

Local Transport Plan Progress Report 2008

 

Five-year Delivery Report

The five-year Delivery Report, presents Swindon Borough Council's progress towards the aims and objectives of the first five year Local Transport Plan and the overarching policy objectives of the council as a whole. The document can be downloaded in full below.

Local Transport Plan Five-year Delivery Report