Chapter 11 I Placemaking and Managing Development
Travel Plans
11.233 The National Transport Authority (NTA) have produced a ‘Toolkit for School Travel’ which provides guidance on school travel plans.
11.231 A Travel Plan is a document which comprises a strategy for reducing private car use to and from a development site, combined with a package of measures for implementing the strategy. They are required through the planning process for a broad range of land uses, including residential, retail, employment, education, leisure and health. Travel plans must be dynamic and evolving documents monitored and reviewed on a regular basis. Full details are provided in Achieving Effective Workplace Travel Plans: Guidance for Local Authorities and Workplace Travel Plans – A Guide for Implementers; and Toolkit for School Travel (both developed by the National Transport Authority). The Smarter Travel Workplaces Programme, which is managed by the National Transport Authority, continues to engage with a number of larger employers in the Cork area in the development and implementation of Workplace Travel Plans. 11.232 Travel Plans may be required for new developments: the thresholds and sub-thresholds for Travel Plans are listed in Table 11.12 below. However these are for guidance purposes only. There may be devel- opments below the threshold scale which could benefit from a Workplace Travel Plan and shall be determined by Cork City Council at pre-planning stage.
Car & Bicycle Parking
Car Parking
11.234 The City Council area is divided into four zones for the purposes of car parking control, based on each area’s accessibility to mass transit, cycling and walking. Car parking standards for both residential and non-residential developments are set out in Table 11.13. These standards are maximums in order to constrain car trip generation and promote patronage of active travel and public transport.
Land Use
Workplace Travel Plan Statement
Indicative
Standard
Indicative Number
Number of Jobs
Workplace Travel
of Jobs
Plan
Office / Financial
> 500 sqm
25-100
> 2,000 sqm
> 100
Retail / Shops
> 600 sqm
25-100
> 2,500 sqm
> 100
Industrial
> 2,500 sqm
25-100
> 6,000 sqm
> 100
Leisure
25-100
> 100 or greater than > 10,000 visitors annually
Hospitals / Medical
25-100
> 100 or greater than
Centres
> 10,000 visitors annually
Warehousing
> 2,500 sqm
25-100
> 10,000 sqm
> 100
Table 11.12: Workplace Travel Plan Thresholds.
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