Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006 (as amended August 2009)

Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006

• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Calderdale in Context
• Strategic and Core Part One Policies
• 3 Guiding Principles and Key Themes
• 4 Employment, The Economy, Tourism and Regeneration
• 5 Housing
• 6 Retailing and Town Centres
• 7 Open Space, Sport and Recreation Facilities
• 8 The Built and Historic Environment
• 9 Transport
  • Introduction
  • Vision for Transport in Calderdale and Across West Yorkshire
  • The Context for Transport Planning in Calderdale
  • Securing a Safe, Sustainable, Efficient Transport System
  • Priorities for Transport Investment
  • Strategic Road Network
  • Hierarchy of Consideration
  • Transport Assessment of New Development
  • Highway and Pedestrian Improvements Associated with Development
  • Travel Plans
  • Policies of the Highways Agency
  • Public Transport
  • Socially Inclusive Transport System
  • Footpaths, Bridleways and Other Rights of Way
  • Cycling
  • Motor Cycles and Mopeds
  • Highways and Traffic Management
  • Parking in New Development
  • Car Free and Low Car Housing Development
  • Garage and Car Parking Courts
  • The Movement of Freight
  • Helicopters
  • Safeguarding Aerodromes and Air Traffic Technical Sites
• 10 Infrastructure, Education and Community Facilities
• 11 Natural Environment and the Countryside
• 12 Environmental Protection
• 13 Minerals
• 14 Waste Management
• 15 Monitoring and Review of the Plan
• Annex A Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space
• Annex B Trees On or Adjacent to Development Sites
• Appendix 1 National Planning Policy
• Appendix 2 National Minerals Policy
• Appendix 3 Supporting Published Documents
• Appendix 4 Glossary of Terms
• Appendix 5 Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix 6 Policy Topic Index
• Appendix 7 Policy Number Comparison
• Appendix 8 Supplementary Maps

Vision for Transport in Calderdale and Across West Yorkshire

9.2 Calderdale Council has, jointly with the other West Yorkshire local authorities and the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority, produced the West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan (WYLTP) (July 2000 and July 2006). The WYLTP provides a vision for transport within the whole West Yorkshire area which is to provide a high quality local transport system that:-

1. is efficient, reliable, affordable and safe;
2. meets the travel needs of all the people and businesses of West Yorkshire;
3. secures a high quality environment, with the environmental impacts of traffic carefully managed in order to improve road safety and avoid compromising standards relating to noise, air quality and severance;
4. provides access to a wide range of goods and services without the need for private motorised transport; thus ensuring that car use is seen as a choice rather than a necessity; and
5. does not have unacceptable effects on the local or global environment.

NOTE: This Section of the Replacement UDP was drafted in the light of the provisions of the West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan (2000). The Council is fully aware of the changes introduced by the West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan 2006, but it has not been possible to revise this section to take account of these changes.The Council and its partners are developing a Vision for Transport building upon the WYLTP 2006, but this has not been taken into account in this Replacement UDP.

Targets For Transport

9.3 WYLTP (2000) includes targets for monitoring the success of the Plan in achieving its objectives. Key targets are included within the UDP below for information. Most of these targets relate to West Yorkshire as a whole and have not been broken down into specific targets for Calderdale. However, the target for traffic growth across the Halifax Central Monitoring Cordon (see Glossary of Terms) is Calderdale specific. The targets recognise that the overall long-term aim must be for a reduction in traffic. However, for the next few years it is important to stabilise traffic growth below the high levels that are forecast by the Department for Transport (DfT), which considers that growth between 8.5% and 15.2% from 1999 to 2006 is likely.

Targets for Road Traffic Reduction

• Traffic growth not to exceed 5% (16 hour flow on all roads) between 1999 and 2006;
• Morning peak inbound traffic crossing the Halifax Centre Cordon not to grow by more than 3% between 1998 and 2006;
• Total bus patronage to grow by 3% between 1999 and 2006; and
• Total rail patronage to grow by 40% between 1999 and 2006.

Cycling Strategy Targets

• Double the overall number of cycle trips by 2002 and double again by 2012 from a base of 1996 levels; and
• Reduce fatal and serious cyclist casualties by 40% from 1994/98 average by 2010, with no increase in slight casualties.

Walking Strategy Targets

• Halt the decline in journeys made by foot generally and increase the proportion of journeys made on foot by young people between 1998 and 2003; and
• Reduce fatalities and serious injury to pedestrians by 40% from 1994/98 average by 2005 and by 50% by 2010, with no increase in slight casualties.

Target for Air Quality

• Contibute to the achievement of emission targets by 2005 by meeting traffic reduction targets.

Targets for Road Safety

• Reduce fatal and serious road casualties by 40% by 2010 from the 1994/98 average;
• Reduce the number of children killed or seriously injured by 50% by 2010 from the 1994/98 average; and
• Reduce the rate of slight injury accidents per 100 vehicle km by 10% by 2010.

9.4 The Replacement Calderdale UDP can contribute to achieving the vision of the WYLTP and targets by making sure that development is built where it can give opportunities to use public transport, walking, cycling or other modes of transport, and by putting in place policies to encourage and support sustainable development.

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