Environment Report - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

About the LTP3 Strategy:
The LTP3 Strategy identifies five local transport goals and six transport related priorities
which will be addressed over the period of the plan. These include: improving access to
areas of economic growth and regeneration, employment and education; tackling road safety
and carbon emissions; encouraging walking and cycling for better health and well being and
maintaining our transport assets.
The Local authority is aware of the pressures placed on its budgets and the potential need
for compromise as it aims to tackle each of its local goals and priorities. The strategy
acknowledges that although it could be argued that interventions designed to reduce carbon
emissions could be achieved relatively simply, managing a reduction in emissions in a
financially sustainable manner, whilst supporting economic growth and social mobility is a
complex task and one which may require compromise.
The Strategy also notes the health consequences of transport. This will be delivered both by
schemes to address high rates of traffic accidents (particularly in disadvantaged
communities and amongst children) and by improvements in networks of cycleways and
footways to encourage people to walk and cycle more.
Many of these measures will need to be delivered by cross working with areas such as
health care and policing. Such moves will seek to provide better value for money as well as
tackling more entrenched challenges, such as road safety.
LTP3 Strategy: Local Goals
• Support the economy
• Tackle climate change
• Increase safety and security
• Promote equality of opportunity
• Promote quality of life, health and the natural environment
LTP3 Strategy: Key Priorities
• Improve access to areas of regeneration and economic growth
• Reduce carbon emissions
• Improve road safety
• Improve access to education and employment
• Improve quality of life and well-being
• Maintain our transport assets in good condition
LTP3 Environmental Report final version 5