LOCAL SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT FUND
Peterborough City Council has been successful in its bid for the
Local Sustainable Transport Fund and will be receiving £5 million
from now until 2015 to deliver sustainable transport options to the
people of Peterborough. We will update the website in due course
with what we are hoping to deliver in the first year, but all the
background information about the LSTF and Peterborough's bid can be
found below.
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. It reflects the Government’s core objectives of
supporting economic growth by improving the links that move goods
and people and meeting its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions. The aim is to facilitate best practice in the delivery
of a wide range of sustainable transport packages and presents
local authorities with the opportunity to introduce a package of
sustainable travel solutions that will support economic growth
while reducing carbon.
Peterborough City Council completed and submitted its
proposal to the Department for Transport on 18 April
2011. The bid includes sustainable transport improvements, both
soft measures and infrastructure, and aims at increasingly
integrating sustainable travel into our mainstream travel planning.
The bid is grouped under four key packages:
1. Working with individuals, communities and neighbourhoods
2. Workplace travel planning
3. Primary care and public health
4. Young people’s travel
Each package contains a number of measures; for instance package
1 Working with individuals, communities and neighbourhoods includes
infrastructure and soft measures to integrate travel modes at the
bus and rail station and improve accessibility in and to the city
centre as well as a mini park and ride facility and improved
walking and cycling links in rural areas. Package 4 Young people’s
travel includes provision for a bike it officer to work in schools
and independent travel training amongst other initiatives.
A number of partnership bodies have pledged their support and
their ‘letters of
commitment/support’ can be viewed here.
Peterborough’s submission is available to download below.
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LSTF bid document
(3045KB, 26 pages)