8. Travel

Aims and Objectives

8.1 To enable people and goods to move around efficiently and safely to the benefit of the economy and community, with minimum harm to the environment by seeking to reduce car dependency and encouraging more sustainable forms of transport where appropriate and providing greater accessibility to services for all.

8.2 To achieve this vision, the objectives of this chapter of the Local Plan are to:

• a) encourage and promote sustainable development which will minimise travel and traffic generation;
  b) seek development patterns that will give people choice of travel modes, encourage the use of more sustainable forms of transport and reduce dependence on the car;
  c) reduce the impact of the movement of goods on communities and the environment as a whole;
  d) reduce the effects on communities of the physical impact of traffic (air pollution, noise etc.) by careful use of traffic management and reducing the growth in the use of motor vehicles; and
• e) create and maintain an efficient system of transport which will provide accessibility for all, particularly the vulnerable and the mobility impaired.