Sustainable travel and movement

This chapter presents draft travel and movement policies for the borough, including policies on promoting sustainable travel and movement, car parking, freight and logistics and new transport infrastructure.

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• Chapter - Sustainable travel and movement (Interactive online version)
• Chapter - Sustainable travel and movement (pdf)

What are the key travel and movement challenges?

• Transport infrastructure - A specific challenge will involve ensuring that proposed growth in the borough, especially in the regeneration areas, is adequately provided with new transport infrastructure. Ultimately, we need to change the way we move about, to ensure that travel becomes healthier, safer, more inclusive
• Sustainable travel and movement - Hammersmith & Fulham has high levels of active travel (walking, cycling and wheeling) amongst its population; however, it could be much higher.
• Freight and logistics - The movement of goods and freight on the highway network is essential for a successful and thriving city. Hammersmith & Fulham’s location between Central London, Heathrow Airport and Park Royal in addition to hosting one of the largest shopping and entertainment centres in Europe means it experiences a significant volume of freight traffic on our roads.

How can the Local Plan help?

• New transport infrastructure - seek to maximise the opportunities for infrastructure improvements and support the delivery of sustainable developments in the vicinity of new or improved stations, transport hubs and services.
• Mitigating the impacts of transport - seek to ensure that traffic generated by new development is minimised so that it does not add to parking pressures on local streets and result in any negative impacts on local congestion and air quality.
• Sustainable travel and movement -
• Freight and logistics - the Local Plan can help by reducing the number of individual freight trips on our roads and supporting the shift to more sustainable and efficient modes of travel such as rail and cycle freight.

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