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The implementation plan setting out transport investment over the period 2011/12 to 2014/15 is available to download below. Information in the document includes:
- a summary of the Local Transport Plan 3 Strategy for the period 2011/12 to 2025/26
- the prioritisation mechanisms which have been applied to potential transport investment
- likely finance available over the first implementation plan period including possible additional funding sources
- funded parts of the implementation plan and potential further investment
- how performance of the plan will be monitored
Local Sustainable Transport Fund
The Government announced, as part of the Local Transport White Paper, the creation of a Local Sustainable Transport Fund to help build strong local economies and address the urgent challenges of climate change.
The purpose of the Fund is to enable the delivery by local transport authorities of sustainable transport solutions that support economic growth while reducing carbon. These solutions will be geared to supporting jobs and business through effectively tackling the problems of congestion, improving the reliability and predictability of journey times, enabling economic investment, revitalising town centres and enhancing access to employment. They should at the same time bring about changing patterns of travel behaviour and greater use of more sustainable transport modes and so deliver a reduction in carbon and other harmful emissions.
To support the implementation of Local Transport Plan 3 we have submitted a joint bid with Staffordshire County Council to the Fund. The bid is for nearly £5 million for a North Staffordshire Sustainable Transport Package. More information on our joint application to the Local Sustainable Transport Fund is available here.
We have also submitted a Stoke-on-Trent bid to the Local Sustainable Transport Fund to help meet our Local Transport Plan objectives. The bid is for £4.138m towards a Stoking Employment package of sustainable transport interventions. More information on our Stoke-on-Trent bid to the Local Sustainable Transport Fund is available here.
Stoke-on-Trent is also a partner authority to the Walk to School Outreach Thematic Bid. Durham County Council are the lead authority for this bid working with national charity Living Streets to roll out an outreach programme. The bid identifies locations where the school run is having a particularly significant negative impact on congestion, journey times and economic growth. The funding will be used for bespoke measures that will remove barriers to walking, along with delivery of proven school-based interventions. Schools in the south and east of Stoke-on-Trent which have large numbers of children driven by car short distances to school adding to congestion problems are targeted.
Schools in the north and east of Stoke-on-Trent are targeted by the Access to Education Thematic Bid we are also a partner authority to. This bid, led by Devon County council working with Sustrans to support economic growth by tackling local congestion problems caused by journeys to schools, includes funding to promote walking and cycling to 21 primary schools and 7 secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent.