1. 1 ‘ARE WE THERE YET?’ Managing the traffic implications of growth A Local Transport Authority Perspective Ian Drummond Leicestershire County Council

2. 2 ›Growth ›Planning ›Issues ›Legacy ›Immediate growth ›Planned growth ›Politics and policy ›Conclusion Managing the traffic implications of growth

3. 3 Growth is all around us and has been for years ›Population increases ›Migration ›Increased mobility ›Increased willingness to travel Growth

4. 4 Planning Now more willing to describe growth as such ›Built into Plans ›Regional Spatial Strategies ›Local Development Frameworks ›Local Transport Plans

5. 5 Issues around planning for growth ›Immediate growth and how to cater for it ›Planned growth and how to design for it ›Squaring the policy and political imperatives Because ›Growth is more visible to people ›….and they don’t like it

6. 6 Legacy ›We are responsible for places and how they work  In the short, medium and long term ›We cannot walk away and we cannot outsource the responsibility ›If we don’t do our job now, places will seize up  The economy will fail  The environment will suffer

7. 7 Immediate growth ›Sometimes called “background” growth ›Caused by smaller scale development but also changes in the way that people live their lives ›Need to make the best use of existing networks ›Techniques mostly understood  Smarter choices, demand management  Minor works, better signal control strategies ›Don’t forget freight ›There’s no money

8. 8 Planned growth (1) ›Tends to cluster – the SUE ›Gives better opportunities for sustainable communities and sustainable travel ›However large clusters can overwhelm existing networks ›Must analyse objectively  Use sophisticated modelling tools  Answer the inevitable challenge

9. 9 Planned growth (2) ›Can require expensive infrastructure  Land values and build out rates  Use other funding sources; GPF etc. ›Is this all about infrastructure?  Passenger transport, cycling, walking  Design out the need to travel ›Developers and sell-on rates  Can’t access it, won’t buy it  Developers need to work together  Developers’ consultants must look longer term

10. 10 Politics and policy ›People don’t like growth ›The housing needs argument is neither understood nor accepted ›How do we in Local Authorities square our rôles of professional advice and our political clients’ needs? ›Our job is not to prevent development happening  But we must promote the best way to meet the widest interests

11. 11 Conclusion ›Growth is happening  In a stuttering way ›People don’t like it  But it won’t go away ›We have to design for it  But money and space are scarce ›Unplanned and unmanaged growth would be very damaging

12. 12 ‘ARE WE THERE YET?’ Managing the traffic implications of growth A Local Transport Authority Perspective Ian Drummond Leicestershire County Council