Surrey County Council has teamed up with <a href="https://surrey.betterpoints.app/">BetterPoints </a> to launch the Greener Future challenge and make every car-free journey even more worthwhile for the residents of Surrey.The <a href="https://surrey.betterpoints.app/">BetterPoints </a> smartphone app tracks your journey and awards you points which can be spent at participating local traders, redeemed for high street vouchers or donated to charity. It will also tell you how much carbon you’ve saved and how many calories you’ve burned by choosing to leave the car at home for your journey.So, whether you walk, cycle or catch the bus – every journey counts.Visit <a href="https://surrey.betterpoints.app/">surrey.betterpoints.app</a> to find out more and download the app today.

Join Surrey’s Greener Future challenge to earn rewards for choosing to travel on foot, by bike or by public transport

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COP26 is coming to Surrey!Join us in Farnham on 10th November to mark COP26 with a special event focussed on sustainable transport, or take part in our competition to be in with a chance of winning an electric bike.As world leaders continue to come together in Glasgow to tackle the climate emergency, Surrey County Council will mark the UN Climate Change Conference with a special event in Farnham, and also by encouraging residents to get involved in tackling climate change by pledging to ‘do one thing’ to benefit the environment.The event:Want to test drive an electric car or van? Or see electric bikes in action? Find out more about what the future of transport could look like in Surrey? Come along to our free COP26 event, which is part of the national COP26 Regional Roadshow programme! The ‘Greener Transport Surrey’ event is being held in Farnham, Upper Hart Car Park, on 10th November between 10am and 3pm. Activities will include: <li>Electric bike demonstrations from Canyon</li> <li>A pedal-powered Scalextric challenge</li> <li>Free bike repairs and maintenance advice</li> <li>Information from Energy Saving Trust</li> <li>Free test drives of electric cars and a van from Energy Saving Trust</li> <li>Chance to see a hydrogen bus, similar to those which will be on Surrey’s roads next year</li> <li>Information on climate change in Surrey and the trees programme including free seeds and saplings.</li>The competition:To support COP26, the council is asking residents to think about the changes they can make to reduce their carbon footprint and to register their efforts on <a href="https://idot-waf.org.uk/">Wildlife Aid&#39;s iDot (I do one thing) platform</a> . By sharing your one thing by 30 November you will be entered into a prize draw to win a <a href="https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/electric-bikes/electric-city-bike/commuter-on/commuter-on-7/2356.html">Canyon Commuter ON 7 electric bike</a> !The campaign is part of Surrey County Council’s efforts to tackle the climate emergency as outlined in the recently agreed Climate Change Delivery Plan. The Climate Change Delivery Plan sets out our priorities and actions for the next few years to help us achieve our goals of being net zero carbon as an organisation by 2030 and as a county by 2050.Marisa Heath, Surrey County Council Cabinet Member for Environment, said, “With 46% of carbon emissions in Surrey coming from transport, we hope that this event will encourage our residents to think differently about the way they travel.“We have recently invested over £6m to improve footpaths and cycleways for residents and over £5m to improve bus services to help residents to rely less on their cars for certain journeys.“As just one of five successful applicants to be awarded the funding to host a COP26 Regional Roadshow, Surrey’s involvement in COP26 shows we are leading the way in driving change and I would urge all residents to play their part by pledging to do one thing to tackle climate change. If everyone takes some action to change their behaviour, the impact on reducing carbon emissions in Surrey will be significant.”For more information, please see the council&#39;s <a href="https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/people-and-community/climate-change">Greener Futures website</a> , or have a look at the <a href="https://news.surreycc.gov.uk/2021/11/02/surrey-marks-cop26-and-asks-residents-to-get-involved/">news post</a> about the event.

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Thank you to everyone who has responded to the Surrey Transport Plan consultation so far! We want the draft Surrey Transport Plan to work for everyone in Surrey and the more people involved, the better understanding we will have of the needs and aspirations of the whole community. With just over a week to go until the consultation closes on the 24th of October 2021, we would really appreciate sharing the consultation with people you know locally, like friends, family and neighbours.To share the consultation on WhatsApp, Faceboo k, twitter or by email, please visit our webpage at <a href="https://surreyltp4.commonplace.is/">https://surreyltp4.commonplace.is/</a> and scroll to the bottom of the page where you will find details on how to do this. Thank you again to everyone who has had their say so far!

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Our vision sets out the what the transport system in Surrey might look like in 2030 and beyond. Our Objectives will help us get there. 

Our Draft Vision and Objectives

This section describes our Vision and Objectives of the draft Surrey Transport Plan. For more detailed information, links to additional materials are available below.The plan marks a step change in transport for Surrey. We have developed the following <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Surrey%20Transport%20Plan-pages-31.pdf">Vision Statement</a> setting out our aspiration for the transport system in Surrey to 2030 and beyond:<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1624875589/projects/surreyltp4/3c7c3305-3ca0-406b-8f8b-45a95149d8f8.png" />We have identified four <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Surrey%20Transport%20Plan-pages-32-34.pdf"> <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Surrey%20Transport%20Plan-pages-32-34.pdf">Objectives</a> </a> to help guide the plan in delivering the vision. Each objective focuses on one key challenge identified from our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/LTP4_EvidenceBase_PolicyReviewSummary%20consultation%20version%20final.pdf">Evidence Base</a> set out in the Background and context section of the main report and our <a href="https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/finance-and-performance/our-performance/our-organisation-strategy/community-vision-for-surrey-in-2030">Community Vision 2030</a> priority objectives.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1624875955/projects/surreyltp4/50089c94-7dd9-4c66-852e-18f53b2c5fee.png" />

Additional materials

Draft Surrey Local transport Plan 2022-2032

Draft Vision Statement

Draft Objectives

Draft Evidence Base

Read and comment on the Plan's Integrated Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulation Assessment.

Integrated Sustainability Appraisal

Below is the Integrated Sustainability Appraisal (ISA) and the Habitats Regulation Assessment (HRA) for the draft Transport Plan. If you wish to comment on these documents, please do so below, or for more formal responses on the (ISA) by emailing your comments to <a href="http://surreytransportplan@surreycc.gov.uk">surreytransportplan@surreycc.gov.uk</a> if you don&#39;t want your comments to be publicly visible. What is the ISA and the HRA?Whilst it is important that the Surrey Transport Plan delivers its vision for transport in Surrey, it is also important that this is done in a way which protects the environment, protects the health and quality of life of the people of Surrey and visitors to the County and allows as many different people as possible the same opportunities for accessing the facilities and services they require whilst promoting sustainable economic growth. More information on the sustainability impacts is available here <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/ISA.pdf">Sustainability impact assessment information</a> .Consequently, the draft Plan has been subjected to a series of assessments that cover the topics of Sustainability and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SA/SEA), Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) and Community Safety Assessment (CSA). Taken together these various assessments are described as an ‘Integrated Sustainability Appraisal’ (ISA) . As there is a potential that the Transport Plan could lead to a direct or indirect effect on sites which have been designated at the European level for nature conservation purposes (such as Special Areas of Conservation), a Habitats Regulation Assessment (HRA) has also been carried out and is reported on separately.

Sustainability Assessment information

ISA Report Appendices

Habitats Regulation Assessment

How our ideas will help us to work towards our objectives.

Impact Strategies

This section summarises how we have combined the avoid, shift and improve principles and our proposed new measures to develop four Impact Strategies followed by questions asking for your views on these proposed Impact Strategies. If you would like more detailed information on these impact strategies, links to this additional material are available further down the page.The four Impact Strategies below set out how the plan will deliver each of its four objectives, to support the Council&#39;s wider Strategic Priorities (as shown in the Vision and Objectives section). Each Impact Strategy outlines how combining measures from the nine policy areas can encourage a to reduce or avoid the need to travel, shift local journeys towards more sustainable forms of transport and improve the management and energy efficiencies of the road network and vehicles that travel along then will successfully support towards net zero carbon by 2050 and other objectives.Click here to read more about <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Impact%20Strategy%201.pdf">Impact Strategy 1</a> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1625055959/projects/surreyltp4/958f584b-0c00-4044-ad17-2a11d1ad9d00.jpg" />Click here to read more about <a href="https://surreyltp4.commonplace.is/proposals/impact-strategies?edit=true">Impact Strategy 2</a> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1625056087/projects/surreyltp4/1e3ebd64-0885-4779-997c-2641b06fb782.jpg" />Click here to read more about <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Impact%20Strategy%203.pdf">Impact Strategy 3 </a> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1625056171/projects/surreyltp4/bd36f390-9252-445f-beee-173687e5d791.jpg" />Click here to read more about <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Impact%20Strategy%204.pdf">Impact Strategy 4 </a> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1625056268/projects/surreyltp4/2ed6256a-a246-4103-84d6-17060bc2d070.jpg" />

Surrey Local Transport Plan 2022-2032

Impact Strategy 1

Impact Strategy 2

Impact Strategy 3

Impact Strategy 4

Our guiding principles and our broad mix of policy areas to enable the delivery of the plan's objectives.

Our Draft Principles and Policy Areas

Achieving the scale of carbon emissions reduction that is required will involve a step change for transport. In order to meet our vision and objectives, we will build on and develop new measures that align with the following principles:<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1625054520/projects/surreyltp4/5217ce90-cd26-49d5-ae9e-f33e816b453a.jpg" />A broad mix of measures will be required to achieve our vision for transport in Surrey. Measures have been grouped under nine Policy Areas, which correspond to the avoid, shift and improve principles. The policy areas will help us to achieve our Objectives to improve the travel and accessibility options available, and their delivery on a day to day basis across Surrey.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1625054704/projects/surreyltp4/45f5e46f-d525-457e-94ec-7f417bf1102d.jpg" />All nine Policy Areas are necessary to reduce carbon emissions across Surrey at the pace and scale required to achieve net zero carbon by 2050 and the interim target of a 60% reduction by 2035. Further information on the policy areas is available here <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Policy%20Area%20Table.pdf">Summary of Policy Areas</a> The following tiles provide detailed explanations of the measures within each policy area to enable everyone to enjoy healthy, affordable, low carbon travel choices in the future.

Summary of Our Draft Policy Areas

Our ideas for embracing future technology to 
 help reduce emissions and increase the operational efficiency of our transport system.

Measures to improve  journeys

This section summarises the new measures proposed in the plan to improve efficiencies of journeys followed by questions asking for your views on these proposals. If you would like more detailed information on these measures, links to this additional material are available further down the page.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1624541335/projects/surreyltp4/97902ae9-a9b1-483f-a62a-e31d15f613fa.png" />Future success will result in many more journeys using safe, cleaner, greener ways of travelling as an alternative to petrol and diesel fuelled journeys, when we do need to travel , on well managed, efficient and reliable networks to help reduce congestion and improve road safety. We believe these proposed measures will move us in the right direction so that everyone can enjoy healthy, affordable, low carbon travel choices.The diagram below explains how our Improve principle supports measures to promote zero emission and smaller vehicles and smooth traffic flows to provide more reliable and more pleasant travelling experience on our networks to reduce carbon and progress towards net zero by 2050 .<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1624541409/projects/surreyltp4/14ad55df-edbf-402d-8652-4b399edb58da.png" />Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Efficient%20Network%20Management%20measures.pdf">Efficient Network Management measures:</a> Continue to use data to focus on improving safety and journey time reliability on the network, helping to better connect communities to opportunities. <li>Data driven network management</li> <li>A ‘Vision Zero’ approach to road safety</li> <li>Fair enforcement</li> <li>Targeted capacity improvements</li> <li>Network maintenance</li> <li>Futureproofing for new technology</li>Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Promoting%20zero%20emissions%20vehicles%20measures.pdf">Promoting Zero Emissions Vehicles measures:</a> Expand electric vehicle (EV) car clubs so that access to an EV is possible without the cost of purchase and ongoing running costs.<li>Planning and enabling charging and fuelling infrastructure</li> <li>Accelerating the uptake of Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) amongst council and wider fleets</li> <li>Expanding EV car clubs</li>Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Behaviour%20Change%20Measures.pdf">Behaviour Change measures:</a> We will build upon previous successful behaviour change campaigns, such as Travel SMART, to raise awareness, provide information and promote incentives to encourage a rapid uptake of Zero Emission Vehicles and a shift away from larger vehicles and explore mobility credits to be used on public transport and car clubs to reduce car ownership and encourage even more mode shift to ensure we achieve a greener, safer, healthier Surrey for all.<li>Developing and expanding current behaviour change work.</li>

Efficient network management measures

Promoting zero emissions vehicles measures

Behaviour change measures

Our ideas to shift to more sustainable journeys of walking, cycling, and public transport, away from car use.

Measures to shift more journeys to sustainable forms of travel

This section summarises the new measures proposed in the plan to shift more local journeys to sustainable forms of travel followed by questions asking for your views on these measures. If you would like more detailed information on these measures, links to this additional material are available further down the page.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1624528690/projects/surreyltp4/1ceb6c40-a83f-4700-81f6-4d77c5424e43.png" />Future success will result in a more balanced comparison between car and sustainable travel costs with many more journeys chosen using safe, cleaner, greener ways of travelling as an alternative to the car, when we do need to travel. We believe these proposed measures will move us in the right direction so that everyone can enjoy healthy, affordable, low carbon travel choices.The diagram below explains how our Shift principle supports the increased use of sustainable forms of travel for local journeys and re-balances costs for road travel to reduce the number and length of journeys needed to reduce carbon emissions and progress towards net zero.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1624529076/projects/surreyltp4/ffd526e6-5189-4017-961b-543e6fffcbcf.png" />Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Sustainable%20travel%20hierarchy.pdf">Sustainable travel hierarchy</a> To encourage and support increased use of sustainable forms of travel for local journeys we are proposing a new travel hierarchy to prioritise sustainable travel - walking, cycling and public transport. This will enable delivery of place based measures to support economic regeneration post Covid – supporting a shift in the way residents and businesses interact with the places in which they live and work. So that more journeys can be undertaken in a cleaner, greener way, reducing car use to support net zero by 2050, delivering improvements in air quality, the local environment and the physical &amp; mental health of residents.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1625063960/projects/surreyltp4/3c015cc0-8e6a-4de4-a552-7446c5ee89cf.png" />Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Active%20Travel%20%26%20Personnel%20mobility%20measures.pdf">Active Travel and Personal Mobility measures:</a> Provide new, extended and improved walking and cycling routes to connect communities and town centres for local journeys as convenient, pleasant and safe as possible . Evidence shows that people who walk or cycle, rather than drive, stay in town centres longer, visit more shops and spend more money per visit in local <a href="http://businesses.The">businesses </a> and have a better quality of life through increased physical activity and community engagement <a href="http://businesses.The">. The</a> proposed measures to shift more journeys towards active travel modes include :<li>New, extended and improved routes </li> <li>Supporting facilities</li> <li>Measures to encourage change on longer journeys</li> <li>Measures to increase awareness and safety </li> <li>Hire schemes</li> <li>E-Cargo bikes</li>Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Public%20%26%20Shared%20transport.pdf">Public and Shared Transport measures:</a> Improve, integrate and simplify public and shared transport services, connecting communities to education, training and employment opportunities in larger town centres whilst also connecting businesses to a wider pool of potential employees and customers. <a href="http://businesses.The">The</a> proposed measures to shift more journeys towards public and shared transport options includes:<li>Improving, integrating and simplifying services</li> <li>Improving journey time reliability</li> <li>Simplifying ticketing and fares</li> <li>Improving accessibility and safety</li> <li>Expanding shared transport provision</li> <li>Developing Mobility Hubs</li> <li>Developing a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) framework</li>Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Demand%20Management%20for%20car%20measures.pdf">Demand Management for Cars measures:</a> Alter parking supply and fares to reduce the prioritisation of cars in town centres, making streets more attractive to pedestrians and cyclists and creating space for other activities such as markets and outside seating to attract customers and boost town centre economies. Evidence shows that pedestrians and cyclists stay longer and visit more shops than people driving through town centres. <li>Altering parking supply and charges</li> <li>Traffic calming</li> <li>Engaging with eco-levy (pay as you drive) concepts</li> <li>Using charging revenue to support sustainable modes</li>Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Demand%20Management%20for%20Goods%20vehicles%20measures.pdf">Demand Management for Goods Vehicles measures:</a> Introduce delivery restrictions, encouraging consolidation of multiple deliveries such as use of cargo bikes for last mile deliveries, to reduce congestion and improve reliability, enabling better business planning. This will also reduce the presence of heavy goods vehicles in town centres, making them more attractive environments, enabling businesses to save on delivery costs and operate more sustainably. <li>Introducing delivery restrictions and consolidation</li> <li>Altering traffic routing, speeds and priority</li> <li>Engaging with eco-levy (pay as you drive) concepts</li>Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Behaviour%20Change%20Measures.pdf">Behaviour Change measures:</a> We will build upon previous successful behaviour change campaigns, such as Travel SMART, to raise awareness, provide information and promote incentives to support our other policy areas, including enhancing our strategies for school travel and road safety to ensure we achieve a greener, safer, healthier Surrey for all.<li>Developing and expanding current behaviour change work.</li>

Sustainable travel hierarchy

Active travel / personal mobility measures

Public / shared transport measures

Demand management for cars measures

Demand management for goods vehicles measures

Our ideas to avoid or reduce the number and length of journeys needed by improving land use planning, travel planning and levels of digital connectivity.

Measures to avoid or reduce journeys

This section summarises the new measures proposed in the draft Transport Plan to avoid or reduce some journeys followed by questions asking for your views on these proposals. If you would like more detailed information on these specific measures, links to this additional material are available further down the page.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1624454819/projects/surreyltp4/fd182dba-2b0f-464b-9124-9cc38100a53a.png" />Future success will result in many more journeys using safe, cleaner, greener ways of travelling as an alternative to the car, when we do need to travel, and increased use of reliable county-wide digital connections to access a greater range of future services and opportunities, to avoid the need to travel at all. We believe these proposed measures will move us in the right direction so that everyone can enjoy healthy, affordable, low carbon travel <a href="http://choices.to">choices.</a> The diagram below explains how our avoid or reduce principle supports improving land use planning, travel planning and levels of digital connectivity to reduce the number and length of journeys needed to reduce carbon and progress towards net zero by 2050 .<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1624295043/projects/surreyltp4/84736a7c-d370-4eb3-abbd-7873a03b3279.png" />Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Planning%20for%20Place%20measures.pdf">Planning for Place measures:</a> Include re-designing and enhancing local neighbourhoods and other parts of towns and villages to provide attractive environments for people with increased access to services to live and work locally. Thriving, diverse local communities and places are increasingly recognised to bring a wide range of benefits, including reduced emissions, better air quality, reinvigorated local centres and economies, whilst improving better quality of life for residents through increased physical activity and community engagement. The proposed measures to avoid or reduce journeys include:<li>Establishing <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/20min%20Neighbourhoods.pdf">20-minute neighbourhoods</a> where most needs can be met within a 20 minute walk or cycle ride, avoiding car use for short, local journeys.</li> <li>Develop a <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Surrey%20Street%20Family.pdf">street family</a> guide to help us plan for local needs and conditions, and to balance the diverse needs of Surrey&#39;s roads to provide an attractive , healthy environment to support walking and cycling for short, local journeys and to provide reliable journey times for longer journeys using main roads.</li> <li>Work with partners to ensure that new development is designed to promote sustainable travel options.</li>Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Digital%20Connectivity%20Measure.pdf">Digital Connectivity measures :</a> Promote and encourage access to high quality digital connectivity for all, to access education, training, and employment opportunities, as well as access to online community services and travel information, to support inclusivity and social mobility as well as reduce the need to travel.<li>Supporting extensive rollout of fibre broadband and 5G mobile coverage for homes, businesses and other public organisations.</li> <li>Supporting development and raising awareness of online opportunities and services, including our own services.</li>Click here to find our more on our <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/surreyltp4/Behaviour%20Change%20Measures.pdf">Behaviour Change measures:</a> We will build upon previous successful behaviour change campaigns, such as Travel SMART, to raise awareness, provide information and promote incentives to support joining up journeys to reduce the overall number of journeys, how to avoid some journeys by accessing services on-line and by working from home more often to ensure we achieve a greener, safer, healthier Surrey for all.<li>Developing and expanding current behaviour change information and incentives.</li>