The new draft London plan has a bold new vision to encourage Londoners to use their cars less and walk and cycle more.
Following work by Sustrans to influence the new plan, developers and councils are need to meet wide-ranging requirements to reduce the dominance of traffic on our streets and enable walking, cycling and easy access to public transport - adhering to the key principles of the Healthy Streets Approach.
They will also be required to increase the proportion of cycle parking for all new shops and homes, with ‘car- free developments’ to be the norm for sites that have good public transport links.
Other measures including improvements in student accommodation cycle provision so that every student safely store a bike, office developments in central London will not be allowed car parking, and any future parking will require electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Alongside the London Plan, the Mayor is working with Transport for London and the boroughs to deliver a London-wide network of cycle routes, with new routes and improved infrastructure to tackle barriers to cycling. The aim is for 70 per cent of Londoners to live within 400 metres of a high quality, safe cycle route by 2041. The Mayor’s recent Strategic Cycling Analysis outlined the 25 corridors in London with the greatest potential for new cycling routes. These corridors spread from Brentford to Heathrow in the west, to Dagenham Dock to Ilford in the east, Highgate to North Finchley in the north, and Streatham to Oval in the south.
The Mayor’s ambition is to increase the proportion of trips in London made on foot, by cycle or using public transport to 80 per cent by 2041, compared to 64 per cent now, which will mean an average of 3 million fewer car journeys in London each day. Achieving this target will require an unprecedented uplift in the amount of journeys by cycle from 3% today.
Matt Winfield, London Director for Sustrans, welcomed the plans:
"Cycling is already the fastest-growing choice for travel around the capital and making sure new development plays its part in making it easier, safer and more convenient is absolutely vital.
"With two in three journeys already made by foot, cycle or public transport, the Mayor’s plan should ensure that new developments reflect the way Londoners travel now and will do in the future.
"Planning more homes and offices close to stations will ensure that people moving in to London’s newest buildings can live without the need for a car. Planners and developers must make sure the streets around them are welcome places to walk or cycle, and that they connect into London’s new Superhighways and Quietways, so that more of us can safely cycle for our everyday needs.
"Cycle parking in new buildings has been woefully inadequate in meeting today’s demand let alone in the future. I welcome news that the new plan will start to address this.“
Find out more about Sustrans report “Laying the foundations for a Healthier London”from News https://www.sustrans.org.uk/news/cycling-centre-stage-london-mayor%E2%80%99s-long-term-plan
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