FOI request (FOIR-605779275)

Transport and planning

Requested Mon 15 April 2024
Responded Tue 07 May 2024

1. Please provide a link to any planning applications which have been granted since 1st January 2021 for housing sites of 1,000 dwellings or more.

2. Please provide any standard documentation which is issued by the Local Planning Authority to developers for guidance on designing housing site proposals.

3. Please outline how internal highway networks are agreed with developers. In particular, specifics around:

a. Road hierarchy (How is this identified (AADT, and so on?). How is active travel dealt with? Are there set design tiers?)

b. Shared surfaces (When are these requested? Is there a limit to the number of dwellings they serve?)

c. Cycle infrastructure (when is dedicated cycle infrastructure required? Are there local design standards in place? Is there focus on connecting to existing networks? How is cycle parking dealt with?)

d. Pedestrian provision including crossing points (Outline the conditions for internal development crossings - local centres, schools, critical mass, and so on.)

e. Electric vehicle charging provision (When are communal charging areas requested? When are chargers requested for each dwelling? Any other comment.)

4. Please outline how provision for public transport is accommodated for new development sites where public transport provision is required within the site itself. Is there a trigger point for public transport provision to be implemented? How are requirements for public transport decided? How are public transport stop/shelter locations and specifications within development sites decided? At what stage are public transport operators involved, and does this directly influence build-out phasing?

5. Is public transport provision prioritised in any way in the highway, for new residential developments?

6. Is active travel prioritised in any way for new housing development sites?

7. Please indicate if all new development sites install infrastructure for active travel which is compliant with LTN 1/20.

8. Please provide commentary on how needs for community facilities are identified to be delivered as part of a residential planning application. This could include schools, shops, local centre, parks/play equipment, office facilities, places of worship, and so on.

9. Has the Local Authority utilised its powers of compulsory purchase in order to construct an active or sustainable travel project?

10. Please provide any monitoring reports from where Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, modal filters, 'Mini Holland', 15-minute neighbourhood, or similar interventions have been implemented in order to reduce carbon trips.

11. Has your Local Authority area declared a carbon emergency?

Response

The Freedom of Information Act is based on recorded information held by a local authority, it is not a tool to ask questions.

1. Information not held, no such applications granted permission.

2. Please see adopted Local Plan for relevant design policies at:

https://www.planvu.co.uk/hbc2015/policy_docs.php

3. (a), (b), (d), and (e) are questions and not requests for recorded information.

c. Adopted Local Plan policies (see link at Q2) will assist here in part. In respect of development proposals (planning applications) this Local Planning Authority (LAP) relies on input and advice from the Highway Authority, East Sussex County Council (ESCC), in relation to these areas. Regarding cycle infrastructure design standards, information will be available from the ESCC as Highway Authority at:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk

4. Local Plan (see link in 2) provides some policy guidance, otherwise see response to 3.

5. See 3.

6. As well at the Local Plan (link already provided), please contact ESCC to view their draft Local Transport Plan (LTP) 4 and the existing LTP3 at:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk

7. Information not held, This is not a request for recorded information.

8. See Local Plan infrastructure polices and related subject area policies (link provided) and the associated Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP):

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/policy/adoptedlocalplan/supportingdocs_evidencebase/delivery_plan/

9. Information not held.

10. Information not held.

11. Information not held.