Object

Representation ID: 26395

Received: 02/03/2020

Respondent: Save Our Country Spaces

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

We believe that the Parking Strategy over-estimates the parking demand, and hence the required land, for town centre parking and that this brownfield land would be better used for housing rather than the previously designated countryside at Humber Doucy Lane. It is not clear if the Ipswich Parking Strategy has actually been approved by the IBC Executive. The parking strategy is based on substantially higher jobs (12,500) and housing (8,840) targets than set out in the CS. Therefore obsolete. Parking strategy needs to take account of Climate Emergency declaration.

Object

Representation ID: 26515

Received: 02/03/2020

Respondent: Northern Fringe Protection Group

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

We believe that the Parking Strategy over-estimates the parking demand, and hence the required land, for town centre parking and that this brownfield land would be better used for housing rather than the previously designated countryside at Humber Doucy Lane. It is not clear if the Ipswich Parking Strategy has actually been approved by the IBC Executive. The parking strategy is based on substantially higher jobs (12,500) and housing (8,840) targets than set out in the CS. Therefore obsolete. Parking strategy needs to take account of Climate Emergency declaration.

Object

Representation ID: 26639

Received: 02/03/2020

Respondent: Councillor Oliver Holmes

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Town centre car parking generates car trips - significant contributor to carbon emissions within town centre. Availability of parking is a disincentive to modal shift and more sustainable travel options. To comply with national zero carbon objectives, Draft needs to acknowledge car parking is material in an overall assessment of carbon emissions and the overarching objective of reducing carbon emissions. Make reference to national policy and the Ipswich Climate Emergency.

Object

Representation ID: 26640

Received: 02/03/2020

Respondent: Suffolk County Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

IBC's 2019 WYG parking report assumes a lower rate of traffic growth than that forecast by the Local Plan modelling, even accounting for modal shift. Greater clarity is needed on how the spatial strategy responds to the WYG finding that care is needed to ensure that the proposed level of parking does not inadvertently encourage car use. The “like for like” replacement approach at sites IP051 and IP015 needs clarification to avoid undermining restraint on long-stay provision. Policy needs to shorten any period of additional provision between a multi-storey being opened and a site redeveloped, to support sustainable travel efforts.

Object

Representation ID: 26642

Received: 02/03/2020

Respondent: Councillor Oliver Holmes

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Based on flawed 2019 Parking Strategy:
-Doesn't acknowledge contribution to carbon reduction that of reduced car trips into town
-Assumption for modal shift of 10% of trips by end of plan period without evidence
-No analysis of Princes Street car park spaces used by train commuters, providing little economic benefit
-Assumption that temporary car parks will disappear without evidence
-Temporary and long stay car parks should be differentiated
-No analysis of why park and ride schemes aren't viable
-Contribution towards air quality not quantified
Suspicion that fee income wins over policy. Until proper analysis, no multi-storey car parks site allocated.