Update of Guidance on Local Transport Plans
- By Chris Rowland
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- 03 Aug, 2022
The DfT’s Future of Freight: long term plan sets out a key strategic goal of ”A planning system which fully recognises the needs of the freight and logistics sector, now and in the future, and empowers
the relevant planning authority to plan for those needs. The Government is intending to update the guidance for Local Transport Plans to ensure that freight needs are key considerations in Local Transport Plan-making. As a contribution to the evidence that local authorities can draw on, the Freight Data Hub service provides free data for each of 80 unitary authorities, county councils and combined authorities in England that are responsible for producing local transport plans and strategies in England.
This free data provides
information on the annual movement of HGVs to and from the local authority
area, the number of large-scale warehouses and aggregate floorspace in the area
and the top three ferry or container ports that serve the trade to and from the
area. It provides a heat map of the
origins and destinations of HGVs for each area.
Freight Data Hub
also provides a digital resource that sets out the wealth of
freight transport data that is available and how it can be used effectively
within Local Transport Plans, including alongside passenger data in local
highways models, and to develop specific freight strategies for local areas.
The
free freight data for local areas can be accessed via: