A Sustainable, Active, Accessible Network for Oldham Local Plan Publication stage

Oldham’s Transport Strategy and Delivery Plan addresses our transport needs for the future.

It reflects the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040, which sets out the long-term vision for how the transport system needs to change across Greater Manchester and the key priorities for achieving this.

The Oldham Local Plan will help deliver a transport system that enables and encourages sustainable and active travel choices, provides good accessibility for residents to jobs and services, and supports a healthy environment. The policies in this chapter promote the role of streets not as a highway, but as a place.

The policies listed below are designed to support Creating a Sustainable, Active, Accessible Network for Oldham. A summary of them is given under each heading.

• Policy T1 - Delivering Oldham’s Transport Priorities:
  • The policy sets out transport measures that will be supported to support Oldham’s role in Greater Manchester’s economy and the ways in which the Local Plan will support the delivery of Oldham’s Transport Strategy.

• Policy T2 - Travel Hubs and Park and Ride Facilities:
  • The policy sets out the circumstances in which the Council will support schemes for new and improved travel hubs and park and ride facilities. It also states that in the case of replacement provision this should be of equivalent or greater capacity and have equivalent or improved connections to the relevant transport infrastructure.

• Policy T3 – Parking Provision:
  • The policy sets out the criteria the level of parking new development should meet in order to be supported. It also provides a number of criteria that should be met by applicants when justifying the levels of car parking proposed in their development.

• Policy T4 - Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure:
  • The policy establishes standards for the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in new development in Oldham.

• Policy T5 – Vision-led Transport Statements, Assessments and Travel Plans in New Development:
  • The policy sets out that Transport Statements, Assessments and Travel Plans will be required on a case-by-case basis. It sets out the factors that will be taken into account when determining whether a planning application needs to be accompanied by a Transport Statement, Transport Assessment and Travel Plan. It also provides criteria as to what should be included with them.

To read the policies in full, please download the Oldham Local Plan: Publication Plan which is available to view here on the Council’s website.