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Policy CS20 Transport.
Clarification is needed on the Travel Ipswich scheme to reduce car dependency by 15% over the lifetime of the plan. Is it just within the town centre or the whole of the borough? Does it include the Garden Suburb, which on its own is expected to generate a significance increase in car usage? Where is the evidence to back up the policy objective? The Travel Ipswich on-line documentation states that the expected increase is 15% and the measures in the scheme give smarter choices to reduce car dependency. We cannot find any statement to say that it will be reduced by 15%.
Highway capacity concerns in the town centre are mentioned (eg Star Lane), but it does not mention the severe congestion on Valley Road, which will be worse when the planned 3,500 houses are built on the Garden Suburb in the Northern Fringe of the town.
It recognises that east west traffic movement is a problem but does not offer any planned solution - only continuing to make a case for alternative east west movements or encouraging key partners to investigate the possibility of new roads.
The policy should include the need for traffic modelling to assess the impact building 13,500 homes will have on the road network within the area.