HILLINGDON UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN - London Borough ...

The planning system can, however, influence people's mode of travel by ensuring that, as far as possible,
places of employment and other uses serving or drawing upon wide catchment areas are sited in places with
good public transport accessibility and directed away from areas where they will draw on a catchment area
likely to be accessible mainly by car.
14.6 Hillingdon's Transport Strategy as contained in the Council's Transport Policies and Programme
(TPP) 1997/98 is also supportive of these development objectives by directing investment towards
'sustainable' modes of movement; the achievement of a better transport-related environment (the transport
strategy is an indispensable component of Hillingdon's strategies for land-use, anti-poverty, safety, and
health and fitness, and is a natural complement to the Council's aim of affordable housing); redressing the
imbalance between access to vital destinations for the non-car user and the car user; and increasing the
proportion of the population physically able to reach necessary destinations as spontaneously as possible
without having to arrange for, having to have recourse to, or having to afford, use of a car. The Council's
TPP for 1997/98 is investing in road safety schemes; good footways, cycleways and other cycling
initiatives, and better orbital bus services; more accessible bus services and public transport interchanges;
lorry and public transport access to the Council's regeneration sites; and upgrading of the A4020
(Uxbridge Road) for greater use by cycles, better junctions for buses, greater safety and a higher quality of
environment.
14.7 Even where there is a lack of capacity of the road and public transport systems, there may be cases
where other, wider interests are put forward to justify major development proposals. In such cases, in order
to allow such developments to proceed the Local Planning Authority can insist for traffic, environmental
and amenity reasons, that developers fund additional public transport capacity (and, where appropriate, onstreet
parking controls) rather than increased road space, to accommodate the additional trips likely to be
generated by the development. These considerations would apply, for example, to major proposals for
expansion of Heathrow Airport needed to serve London and the South East's population and business
community (see Chapter 11) as well as to smaller scale proposals for shops, offices and other forms of
traffic-generating development. In applying Policy AM1, the Local Planning Authority will have particular
regard to developments which are major generators of travel demand, in accordance with PPG13 and
RPG3.
AM1 THE LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY WILL ONLY PERMIT DEVELOPMENT FOR
USES WHICH SERVE OR DRAW UPON MORE THAN A WALKING DISTANCE BASED
CATCHMENT AREA IF:
(i)
(ii)
IT IS OR CAN BE MADE ACCESSIBLE BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT FROM THE AREAS
FROM WHICH IT IS LIKELY TO DRAW THE MAJORITY OF ITS EMPLOYEES,
POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS AND VISITORS, AND
THE EXISTING OR PROPOSED PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM HAS SUFFICIENT
CAPACITY TO ABSORB THE ADDITIONAL JOURNEYS GENERATED BY PEOPLE
TRAVELLING TO THE COMPLETED DEVELOPMENT.
14.8 The identification in this Plan of areas for development or redevelopment carries no guarantee that
particular proposals submitted for planning permission will be acceptable on transport grounds, either to the
Local Planning Authority or to the Department of Transport. A detailed view on the transport implications
of individual applications can only be formed at the time when the application is submitted, in the light of
the available capacity on the relevant road and public transport networks, of any proposals for expanding
that capacity, and of the availability of controls to manage car parking demand.
AM2
(i)
ALL PROPOSALS FOR DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST:
THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO TRAFFIC GENERATION AND THEIR IMPACT ON
CONGESTION, PARTICULARLY ON THE PRINCIPAL ROAD NETWORK AS
DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH 14.14 OF THE PLAN, AND
London Borough of Hillingdon Unitary Development Plan