With an ever increasing focus on sustainable development, our Travel Planning team keeps up to date with local Travel Planning guidance and best practice to ensure your Travel Plan is compliant and deliverable.
Our services
We write Framework and Full Travel Plans to support planning applications, discharge conditions or to ensure developers meet their Section 106 obligations. Our Travel Plans are tailored to each site and each client's requirements.
Our team also currently coordinate Travel Plans for over 14,000 homes and various commercial operations, with each project ranging from 3 to 15+ years. Travel Plan Coordination involves providing residents or employees with the information they need to make an informed decision about the way they currently travel and motivate them to consider using more sustainable modes of transport. This can also include offering incentives, which we can manage on our clients' behalf as well as running a Travel Plan Coordination website, with bespoke pages for our sites, where residents or staff can find out more about sustainable travel opportunities in their area. Visit our Travel Plan Coordination Website for more information.
With the attention focused on sustainable development, we also assist with meeting the world’s leading sustainability assessment: ‘BREEAM’ criteria through our Travel Plans. With more councils requesting development meets this standard, our Travel Plans help ensure valuable credits are secured.
Our Travel Planning services are listed below:
- Preparing Framework and Full Travel Plans
- Producing BREEAM compliant reports to secure credits
- Travel Plan coordination
- Producing Travel Information Packs
- Discharging Travel Plan conditions
- Meeting Section 106 obligations
- Bond/Cash Deposit negotiations
- Attending Local Forums
- Personalised Travel Planning
- Managing travel incentives
Travel Planning
Travel Plans are becoming increasingly important with every planning application, be it residential, office, industrial or educational, as councils look for ways to ensure development is sustainable and the impact on the local road network can be kept to a minimum.
Acting as a package of measures designed to encourage sustainable travel behaviour, Travel Plans can be valuable in proving that your site would not have a ‘severe’ traffic impact or could support lower parking provision or even car-free development.
Our team
With many staff members entering the travel planning world with a sustainability background we are well placed to assist with writing and coordinating Travel Plans.
Our team has experience in writing and coordinating travels plans across a variety of land use sectors, as well as local authority experience of reviewing, monitoring and implementing residential, education and workplace Travel Plans.
Our feedback
Our feedback
We have found Paul Basham Associates to be a practise operating with the highest of disciplines and standards, ensuring that all aspects of liaison through the planning process to the delivery of the scheme result in minimal issues encountered by us as developers. The commercial understanding of this process has been key to the successful delivery of all schemes to date in which they have been involved.
Nigel Shannon
Director
The Highwood Group
