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Response to consultation on draft Local Transport Plan 4

Meeting: 19/10/2021 - Environment Committee (Item 10)

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This report provides a suggested response to Surrey County Council’s consultation on the fourth Surrey Transport Plan (LTP4). LTP4 sets out an ambitious roadmap to deliver carbon reduction targets as set out in Surrey’s Climate Change Strategy for the transport sector, whilst seeking to support the county’s communities and help the economy to thrive. Responses to the consultation must be submitted by the deadline of 24 October 2021. The draft plan appears to be in accordance with the national and local policy direction and the Council’s Climate Change ambitions in principle. The draft plan should be supported but will have significant implications for the future of planning for Place and transport across the Borough.

Additional documents:

Decision:

(1)          To consider and approve the suggested consultation response set out in Appendix 1 for submission by the deadline of 24 October 2021.

(2)          To engage with Surrey County Council on the content of the LT4 Delivery Plan.

(3)          That a comprehensive covering letter be drafted to accompany the response, amplifying the responses as set out in the questionnaire.

Minutes:

A report was received by the Committee, providing a suggested response to Surrey County Council’s consultation on the fourth Surrey Transport Plan (LTP4). LTP4 sets out an ambitious roadmap to deliver carbon reduction targets as set out in Surrey’s Climate Change Strategy for the transport sector, whilst seeking to support the county’s communities and help the economy to thrive. Responses to the consultation must be submitted by the deadline of 24 October 2021. The draft plan appears to be in accordance with the national and local policy direction and the Council’s Climate Change ambitions in principle. The draft plan should be supported but will have significant implications for the future of planning for Place and transport across the Borough.

The Committee considered the following matters:

a)            Clarification of paragraph 4.1 of the report. Following a question from a member of the Committee, the Vice-Chair informed the meeting that Surrey County Council would undertake the bulk of preparation for any business case relating to its Transport Plan. Requests for the use of Borough Council CIL funds to be used as top-up funding would be considered by the County Council’s Local Committee prior to consideration by the relevant Borough Council Committee.

b)            Clarification of paragraph 6.2 of the report. Following a question from a member of the Committee, the Director of Environment Housing and Regeneration informed the Committee that the Council would work together with the County Council to make sure that there was a fully funded infrastructure plan to support the Local Plan.

c)            Amendment to order of responses to question 33 of consultation. The Committee considered that the order of responses for question 33 of the consultation should be amended, to switch the positions of response 3 (“Local centres provide a wide range of services and can be easily accessed at low cost on foot or by bike”) to 2, and the position of response 2 (“The services are available to all”) to 3.

d)            Covering letter. The Committee considered that a covering letter should accompany the Council’s response to the consultation, amplifying the responses set out in the questionnaire. The Committee also considered that the letter should detail its concern that the Plan was ‘anti-car’ rather than ‘anti pollution’, and a recommendation that the Committee should be consulted on the Delivery Plan for the Local Transport Plan prior to its approval.

Following consideration, the Committee unanimously resolved:

 

(1)          To consider and approve the suggested consultation response set out in Appendix 1 for submission by the deadline of 24 October 2021.

(2)          To engage with Surrey County Council on the content of the LTP4 Delivery Plan.

(3)          That a comprehensive covering letter be drafted in consultation with the Chair of the Environment and Safe Communities Committee to accompany the response, amplifying the responses as set out in the questionnaire.