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
    • Traffic Management
    • On Street Parking Controls
    • Pedestrian Priority / Pedestrianisation
    • Highway Schemes
    • Abandoned Highway Proposals
  • 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

Highways and Traffic Management

9.54 The highways and traffic management policies are contained within sections under the following headings: -

• Traffic Management
• On-Street Parking Controls
• Pedestrian Priority/Pedestrianisation
• Highways Schemes

Traffic Management

9.55 Traffic causes significant problems relating to road safety, intimidation, noise and air pollution and thereby reduces the quality of life for local residents. Part of the problem arises from non-essential through traffic constraining local amenity and increasing the potential risk of road casualties. It is important to minimise the impact of traffic growth on the environment and manage the particular requirements of local businesses, industry and residents for deliveries, access to shops, facilities and homes whilst ensuring the network is not compromised by inappropriate traffic. Traffic management measures and minor highway improvement schemes can assist in reducing the impact of traffic and of new developments on the local community and road network. It is also important that any measures are introduced in a balanced way to secure benefits over a wider area. As a result comprehensive traffic management reviews will periodically be undertaken to provide the necessary basis for such measures. Therefore:-

On Street Parking Controls

9.56 Restraint on the amount of parking that will be allowed with new development under the Maximum Parking Allowances (set out in Policy T 18 ‘Maximum Parking Allowances’) could result in increased pressures for on-street parking nearby. Indiscriminate parking will lead to problems of obstruction and traffic congestion in certain streets, increasing the potential risk of road casualties and noise and air pollution. Car parking controls around schools or other generators of significant traffic movements could alleviate problems of congestion, pollution and road safety that arise in these locations. For larger new developments, Travel Plans and Transport Assessments (required under Policy T 1 ‘Travel Plans’ and POLICY GT 5 ‘TRANSPORT ASSESSMENTS ’) will help to identify such and provide considered solutions to the problems. It is important to ensure that problems do not arise from the application of the new parking standards that will compromise road safety or seriously impede traffic flows. The following Policy will therefore apply:-

Pedestrian Priority / Pedestrianisation

9.57 Traffic limitation and pedestrianisation of main shopping streets results in safe and attractive shopping environments which in turn help promote the vitality and viability of shopping centres. The pedestrianisation of streets in Halifax, Brighouse and Elland are considered to be examples of this success. Considerable scope exists for further extension and improvement of the pedestrianised areas, particularly if combined with traffic management schemes to improve traffic circulation and safety. Appropriate town centre management can also assist such measures. The Council, therefore, proposes to carry out investigations to identify possible new and extensions to existing pedestrian priority schemes in the town centres of the District. However, this will only be done in full consultation with the occupiers and users of the shops and in the knowledge that servicing and parking facilities will have to be improved in most, if not all, cases. In Halifax town centre, a 'Zones and Loops' principle for traffic circulation has been created as part of the implementation of the Town Centre Strategy. This has increased the attractiveness of the town centre through a balanced transport policy whilst maintaining good accessibility for public transport and improving the environment for pedestrians.

9.58 All pedestrian priority and pedestrianisation proposals will be subject to consultation with the public and appropriate statutory undertakers and agencies. Therefore the following Policy will apply:-

Highway Schemes

9.59 The Replacement Cadlerdale Unitary Development Plan does not include any new highway schemes that were not already identified in the previous UDP (April 1997). Any that were included in the previous UDP that have not been undertaken or which are not programmed within the West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan have been omitted. The West Yorkshire LTP does not include any highway proposals in Calderdale within the next 5 year period. However there is a longer term requirement within the Replacement UDP for a scheme within Halifax. This is set out in Policy GT7 as follows: -

Abandoned Highway Proposals

9.60 In order not to create blight and thereby reduce environmental quality and economic confidence, it is important that any highway schemes which were previously shown within the UDP, and which are not now to be progressed, be abandoned. Therefore the following Policy will apply:-

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