This Travel Plan has been prepared in order to discharge Condition 19 of the planning permission reference DC/070913, as set out below:

Condition 19 – “The approved development shall not be occupied until a Travel Plan for the development (which shall include both ‘sales’ site and ‘prep’ site) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority and has been brought into operation. The approved travel plan shall be operated at all times that the development is occupied and shall be reviewed and updated on an annual basis in accordance with details that shall be produced using the online TfGM Travel Plan Toolkit and in accordance with current national and local best practice guidance”.

As set out in the Transport submitted and agreed as part of the planning application, a census distribution has been undertaken in order to estimate the distribution of traffic to/from the proposed development. The following distribution has been agreed:

A560 Westbound 11%

M60 Westbound 11%

St Mary’s Way 32%

Carrington Road/Stockport Road West 13%

A560 Eastbound/M60 Eastbound 19%

Tiviot Way 14%

The site consists of two adjacent parcels of land to the north of the M60 and to the west and south of a Tesco Extra which will be referred to as the ‘sales site’ and the ‘preparation site’.

Marsland Street runs in a north west to south east direction along the north and east boundary of the sales site. There is a Tesco Extra to the north of Marsland Street.

Marsland Street is some 7.3 m in width and has a footways to both sides. There is a turning circle with a bus stop and pick-up/drop-off point on its east side which serves Tesco Extra but there is no vehicular access to the Tesco car park from the turning circle. Marsland Street passes under the M60, which has no height restrictions and therefore provides sufficient clearance for car transporters and service vehicles.

The sales site will be accessed off Marsland Street via two priority accesses. The main customer access will be located 25m west of the existing Tesco Extra bus / taxi drop-off turning circle opposite the site. A secondary access for service, staff and refuse collection vehicles is proposed 40m west of the main access. The existing site access, opposite the turning circle, will be closed.

The preparation site will be accessed off Water Street, via an existing priority access that is to be retained. The access to the preparation site is located approximately 125m north east of the junction of Water Street/Marsland Street.

There will be no loading/waiting restrictions implemented on Marsland Street as part of the conditions relating to the development.

There are existing TROs in the area, including Marshland Street and Great Portwood street in terms of no loading/waiting restrictions.

Stockport railway station/bus station

Various retail amenities

Tesco Superstore

Stockport Town Centre

Residential Dwellings

Stockport Railway Station

Stockport Bus Station

Stockport Town Centre

Large Residential Areas

322 - Earlist bus leaves Haughton Green at 06:53, arrives in Stockport at 07:15

330 - earliest bus leaves Ashton under Lyne at 04:55 and arrives in Stockport at 05:34

382 - Earliest bus leaves Woodley at 06:36, arrives in Stockport at 07:55.

Manchester get me there 7 day AnyBus £19.00

Stagecoach weekly £16

Approximately £100

Stagecoach monthly £60

The car park will be managed so that each type of space is only used for its intended use.

A car parking beat survey of all the car parking on site will be carried out annually, taking into account the various car parks within the application site. The results and a commentary of the findings will be provided to Stockport Borough Council within 4 weeks of the survey being carried out.

Marsland Street runs in a north west to south east direction along the north and east boundary of the sales site. There is a Tesco Extra to the north of Marsland Street.

Marsland Street is some 7.3 m in width and has a footways to both sides. There is a turning circle with a bus stop and pick-up/drop-off point on its east side which serves Tesco Extra but there is no vehicular access to the Tesco car park from the turning circle. Marsland Street passes under the M60, which has no height restrictions and therefore provides sufficient clearance for car transporters and service vehicles.

Marsland Street then meets the A560 Great Portwood Street at a priority ghost island junction. There are dropped kerb and tactile paving crossing facilities across Marsland Street near the junction and a pedestrian refuge on Great Portwood Stree

In the vicinity of its junction with Marsland Street, Great Portwood Street is a 10m wide single carriageway road which fronts various retail, employment and leisure uses. Great Portwood Street has ghost island junctions, bus lay-bys, occasional pedestrian refuges and a hatched central island in the vicinity of the site. It is street lit, has footways on both sides of the carriageway and is subject to a 30mph speed restriction. Great Portwood Street connects to Stockport town centre to the south west and to M60 Junction 27 approximately 250m to the north east of the Marsland Street junction. The Peel Centre Retail Park lies directly opposite the Marsland Street junction.

The Portwood roundabout which lies to the east of the site provides access to the A560, Carrington Road and St Mary’s Way. Direct access to the M60 westbound is provided from the roundabout. For access eastbound on the M60, vehicles travel east along the A560 and join the M60 approximately 2 kilometres further east.

Water Street runs from its junction with Marsland St at the south west corner of Tesco Extra and runs along the west and north sides of the store.

Water Street meets the site access for the Tesco Extra which is a three arm mini-roundabout. Continuing to the north east, Water Street then meets A626 Tiviot Way at a signal-controlled junction which is some 250m east of the proposed preparation site. To the north-east, A626 Tiviot Way leads to a five-arm roundabout that provides access to residential areas such as Heaton Chapel and Heaton Moor. To the south, Tiviot Way leads to the M60 Junction 27 grade separated roundabout (known locally as the Portwood Roundabout), around 150m south of the Water Street junction.

The section of Water Street which runs to the south from its junction with Marsland St has been covered with topsoil and grassed over following the construction of the M60. However, it is understood that the southern section of Water Street has not been stopped up and is still public highway.

All roads within the surrounding highway network are of a good standard and suitable for heavy goods vehicles.

Both Marsland Street and Water Street have carriageway widths in excess of 7m. The footway along the site frontage is approximately 1.8m wide and the footway along the Tesco frontage is up to 3m wide. Marsland Street and Water Street are street lit and are subject to 30mph speed restrictions. On-street parking on Marsland Street / Water Street is restricted by waiting restrictions which prohibit waiting at any time.

Amendments to the junction of Water Street/Marsland Street

Revalidation of the SCOOT System at the junction of Water Street/Tiviot Way

To reduce the number of single occupancy car trips

To increase awareness of the the health, financial and environmental benefits of environmentally friendly modes.

To reduce the number of single occupancy car trips

Reduce car parking demand

Conduct annual staff travel surveys to monitor the progress towards the target.

Monitor car parking demand if needed

Updating and Amending Action Plan

Undertaking Annual Travel Surveys

Promoting local, regional and national sustainable and active travel initiatives

Providing personalised journey planning

National Walk to Work week will be advertised by the Travel Plan Coordinator.

Interest and awareness will be monitored through the travel survey.

Local and national walking events will be advertised by the Travel Plan Coordinator.

Often walking for leisure can be a catalyst for walking to work.

Cycle to Work Scheme to be provided. Vouchers for local cycle shops to be offered.

These schemes could increase cycling, will be monitored through travel surveys.

Success of Cycle to Work Scheme to be monitored through the uptake of the scheme.

Cycle to work scheme could increase cycle commuting this can be monitored through travel surveys

National Cycle to Work Day to be advertised by the Travel Plan Coordinator

Could increase cycling on particular days, interest will be monitored through the travel surveys.

Electric Vehicle Charging points are to be provided for staff and customers.

Use will be monitored if the points are able to collect data, and / or through travel surveys.

The Travel Plan has been produced to discharge a condition relating to the construction of a Porsche Dealership on land at Marsland Street, Stockport.

The overall aim of this TP is to ensure that on-site employees understand the travel options available to them, through providing easy and accessible travel options, thereby achieving a positive modal shift. In order to achieve this aim, the following objectives have been set:

To increase awareness of the health, financial and environmental benefits of environmentally friendly modes;

To encourage employees to adopt sustainable modes of travel for most of their journeys to and from the site (where possible); and

To minimise the number of single occupancy car trips.

The proposed objectives have been chosen to reduce the number of single occupancy car journeys as much as possible. It is hoped that given the sustainable location of the site, staff will choose to travel to the site by sustainable modes.

It should be noted that the proposed development is a car dealership and therefore it is expected that some staff will be able to drive cars for their journeys to and from work.