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Timing Activity / presentation 8.15am – 8.25am Welcome from Lynsey Harris 8.25am – 8.40am Bury Local Links presentation – Lynsey Harris 8.40am – 9.10am (10 mins each average) Local business involvement with Bury Local Links

• West Suffolk Hospital
• Burnett Barker Solicitors
• Havebury Housing Partnership

9.10am – 9.40am Bury St Edmunds town centre master planning presentation – Chris Rand 9.40am – 10.00am Accreditation and certificate presentation – BLL Team 10.00am – 10.30am Coffee / pastries and networking

BLL Networking breakfast agenda

What is Bury Local Links?

• Suffolk County Council funded initiative
• Helping organisations of all sizes promote sustainable transport in the

work place

• Providing practical advice and resources to help businesses

implement sustainable travel solutions

• Town wide initiative to raise awareness amongst businesses to

recognize the collective benefit of a joint effort to promoting sustainable travel

Joining Bury Local Links

• Membership is FREE
• Expert advice from BLL workplace travel advisers who will take you

through a number of steps:

• Understand the issues and opportunities in your organisation (through site

audit and travel survey)

• Formulate a bespoke Travel Action Plan
• Implement the measures with our support
• Monitor progress

Why join BLL?

• Joining BLL can help businesses achieve positive changes in four main

areas of your business

Membership benefits

• Free practical advice and support
• Staff travel survey coordination and analysis including GIS postcode plotting
• Assistance formulating your Travel Action Plan
• Access to grant match funding up to £1,000 to develop initiatives or

implement supporting infrastructure

• Unlimited free access to Travel Plans 365
• Cycle to work scheme assistance
• Staff loan scheme for public transport passes

Membership benefits

• Free sustainable travel promotion support
• Workplace travel clinics and staff presentations
• Tailored journey planning information, advice and support
• Bespoke travel mapping solutions centred on your workplace
• Travel information boards detailing sustainable transport options and useful

links for employees to access

• Promotion of Suffolk Car Share scheme

Bespoke travel mapping solutions

BLL Accreditation Scheme

Recognition Bronze Silver Gold

BLL recognises the achievements of all members

Expressed interest in receiving sustainable travel support Beginning to implement Travel Action Plan and run promotions & events Completed a sustainable travel action plan Ongoing promotion of measures and participation in travel campaigns, devising new innovative solutions and recording a reduction in single

• ccupancy car use

BLL to date

So far we have worked with 38 organisations across Bury St Edmunds and undertaken focused with 14 businesses We will continue to promote Bury Local Links amongst businesses and

• rganisations over the next year working with them to promote

sustainable travel amongst their staff

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Travel Planning

Clare Farrant Sustainability Officer West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Sustainable Development Mission Statement:

“West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust will distinguish itself by making sustainability a part of all we do. In partnership with patients, staff and the local community, our strategy captures the social, environmental and economic impact of our actions”

The Travel Plan OBJECTIVES

These are essential in a Travel Plan to provide a direction and a focus. The objectives aim not just to reduce traffic but to minimise traffic. They also seek to widen travel choice; to publicise the alternatives and promote them.

• 1. To minimise car use to the site, whilst providing adequate car parking for essential car users
• 2. Safer access and egress for all users of this site
• 3. We endeavour to improve relations with the local community by minimising all hospital related

parking off site and maintain dialogue with local residents

• 4. To achieve the right balance between staff, public and disabled car parking
• 5. To widen travel choices and encourage healthier forms of travel, i.e. cycling and walking
• 6. To plan for expansion and the additional travel this will generate
• 7. To improve the patient and visitor experience when visiting the hospital and to ensure that

everyone using the site is aware of the Travel Plan and its purpose

• 8. To link the Travel Plan with other corporate policies such as ‘Health and Wellbeing’

Car Travel

• Car parking on site
• Rugby Club (one mile from hospital)
• Shuttle bus
• Car sharing
• Electric vehicle charging points
• Grey Fleet Travel

BUG Cycle storage Secure cycle storage Cycle2Work scheme Events and promotions

Cycling

Daryl Griffiths

Chief Executive

Burnett Barker Solicitors 30 Staff Whiting Street, Bury St Edmunds

Burnett Barker Solicitors

• Providing legal services to consumer and

business clients

• Every lawyer a specialist in their field
• local and on your doorstep – come and see

us!

• New premises with on-site visitor parking
• Face to face relationships widely valued by

clients

• Helping around 3500 people per year with

the legal issues they don’t have the time or expertise for themselves

• “Refreshing” approach & fixed fees

A happy team is a productive team

Challenges

Geographica l spread

01

Irregular hours

02

You are the traffic

03

Survey & Results

• 75% travel alone by car (Suffolk avg is

65%)

• Little awareness of sustainable alternative

travel

• Few of the proposed incentives to use

alternative travel to work were of interest

• Hmmm….

Awareness Campaign needed?

Travel Action Plan

Awareness Campaign

• Travel information board
• Posters promoting local travel info and car

share

• Digital media, videos in regular staff

enews and intranet

• Incentivise participation in Bike Week,

Cycle to Work Day, Liftshare week

• Bespoke cycle maps
• Walk-it leaflets (park and walk?)

Provision of facilities

• Cycle parking purchased

Travel Action Plan

Policy development

• Cycle to work scheme launching Spring ’18
• Preferential 3-month on-site parking for

person who gives most lifts

• Public transport season ticket loans / salary

sacrifice

Re-survey May 2018

• Changes in perception?
• New ideas?
• Wider adoption?
• Further investment in facilities?

Town Centre Businesses Liftshare

Working with BLL to investigate the feasibility of a Bury St Edmunds Town Centre car share community

• Many town centre businesses
• Wider pool to liftshare
• Engagement with SEBC, BID, other town centre stakeholders

Sustainable Travel at Havebury

Why we chose sustainable travel?

• Corporate Responsibility
• Positive reputation
• Encouraging employees to think about sustainability
• Preserving our environment
• Health Benefits
• Social Benefits
• Financial Benefits
• Limited car parking on site

What we encouraged

Cycling to work Walking to work Lift sharing Accessing public transport

How we encouraged staff?

• Funded ‘pool bikes’ inc. electric bike
• Introduced sustainable travel incentive £50 monthly prize draw
• Offered tax efficient ‘cycle to work’ scheme
• Walking/10,000 step challenges
• Published internal car share scheme
• Offered cycle training

‘I’ve purchased a child trailer to attach to my bike, and my son now loves the (previously stressful) trip to nursery before work, which starts my day off better too!’ ‘I’ve started cycling again after 30 years, I was a bit shaky to start but I love it now and cycle into town at the weekends instead of driving too’

What our staff thought?

‘I can cycle from work to home, quicker than drivers who get caught in traffic jams – I actually beat people by cycling three miles home and it’s uphill!’ ‘I get to car share and save money on my travel, while having a friend make the journey seem quicker!’

‘I save on the cost of fuel by walking to work, and it starts my day off well by waking me up mentally and physically. I think I’m more productive!’ ‘I’m more active and it’s encouraged me to think about a healthier lifestyle!’

How Havebury benefitted?

• Physical activity has encouraged healthy lifestyle choices
• Healthy minds are more engaged and increased productivity
• Staff arrive at work refreshed and not stressed from rush hour

traffic!

CHANGING HABITS AND ROUTINES

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HAS SIGNIFICANT HEALTH BENEFITS HELPING EMPLOYEES MAKE SMARTER CHOICES KEEPING ACTIVE THROUGH ACTIVE COMMUTING

Feedback from the MAP Consultation

David Lock Associates

Project Group Presentation

October 2017

Five Stage Project

• Stage 1: Review and Analysis
• Stage 2: Issues and Options
• Stage 3: Draft Masterplan
• Stage 4: Finalise Masterplan
• Stage 5: Launch

Issues and options top ten ideas

1. Increase places to sit and relax in the town centre including social spaces. 2. Discourage vehicles in the town centre and provide more pedestrian areas including pedestrianisation. 3. Improve the quality of public spaces and undertake maintenance and repairs. 4. Improved routes into and around the town centre for cyclists and pedestrians. 5. Enhance the environment of the town centre with additional tree planting, planters and displays. 6. Park & Ride or similar provision. 7. Increase provision of public toilets. 8. Address litter with more bins in convenient locations. 9. Improve bus provision and accessibility to/from and around Bury St Edmunds. 10. Provide safe access to and around the town centre including better pedestrian crossings.

Key themes

• 1. movement around the town centre
• 2. activities that go on in the town centre
• 3. character and appearance of the town

centre - what sort of place it should be Movement Activity Place

Character Areas – implementing the MAP

• 1. Cornhill, Buttermarket and arc
• 2. The Northern Gateway
• 3. St Andrews Quarter
• 4. Churchgate
• 5. Ram Meadow
• 6. Parkway
• 7. Kings Road and Robert Boby Way
• 8. Lark and Linnet Riverside
• 9. Across the Town Centre

Delivering the MAP

• Project Leads and Partners - the ‘Who’
• Funding and Investment – the ‘What’
• Influencing and Doing – the ‘How’
• The MAP in context – the ‘Where’
• Timescales and quick wins – the ‘When’
• Next stage will be doing a lot more research

into the viability of each aspiration

Key consultation findings

Successful consultation and engagement

• Eleven separate events held
• Over 2,000 separate comments received
• 400 questionnaires completed
• More than 1,500 MAPs distributed
• At least 24,000 people reached on social media
• Majority of comments supportive of the MAP

Key Consultation findings

Questionnaire Results 1 of 4¹

• The majority of respondents (48%) were aged

between 35 and 64; only 15% were aged between 0 and 34.

• A total of 52% of respondents stated that they

were a resident and a further 21% worked in Bury St Edmunds.

• Only 13% of respondents stated that they were

visitors to Bury St Edmunds.

¹ based on responses to key questions by a sample of 348 respondents

Key Consultation findings

Questionnaire Results 2 of 4

• A strong positive response was received (84%

stated ‘yes’) when asked ‘is the proposed structure for the town centre clear and helpful in understanding the different areas and uses?’

• A high proportion of respondents (79%)

considered the Character Areas helpful in setting out where and why changes are proposed.

Key Consultation findings

Questionnaire Results 3 of 4

• A significant number of people (75%) felt that

the right Character Areas had been identified; with 13% responding ‘don’t know’.

• Only46% considered the aspirations for ‘St

Andrews Quarter’ have addressed the issues.

Key Consultation findings

Questionnaire Results 4 of 4

• In response to all other Character Areas, a

majority of respondents considered the aspirations proposed addressed the issues:

» ‘Lark and Linnet Riverside’ – (65%) » ‘Kings Road and Robert Boby Way’ – (61%) » ‘The Northern Gateway’ – (59%) » ‘Across the town centre’ – (59%) » ‘Cornhill, Buttermarket and arc’ - (58%) » ‘Parkway’ – (58%) » ‘Ram Meadow’ – (57%) » ‘Churchgate’ – (56%)

Recommended amendments

• Updating the aspirations to account for comments
• Amending character area overviews and priorities where

necessary – largely factual

• Refining and populating the delivery strategy