Sustainable Access to Employment – LSTF

2015/16

Rachel Sharpe – Sustainability Officer Christchurch and East Dorset Councils

Sustainable Travel Plan Co-ordinatorDorset County Council

• Aviation Business Park, Bournemouth Airport

• Ferndown and Uddens Industrial Estates

• Portland-Weymouth -Dorchester

Project Areas

Budget

£570,000 revenue funding

ObjectiveSupport and enable economic growth and job creation by facilitating sustainable access to the key employment sites in these areas

Supporting Objectives

• Improve journey time reliability and resilience on the key transport corridors serving these sites

• Support access to jobs for those on low incomes

• Maintain capacity by maximising uptake of sustainable modes

• Reduce transport emissions of carbon

Partners

• DLEP• Ferndown and Uddens BID• Ferndown Chambers of Commerce• Manchester Airport Group• Christchurch and East Dorset Councils• Dorset Cyclist Network

Economic Impacts

• The use of behavioural change interventions to maximise benefits of improvements to A338, and the B3073, and new cycling infrastructure.

• Improve access to work to encourage business to invest in the area and reduce carbon emissions

• Improve reliability & reduce congestion

Building on existing investment and supporting planned investment

• Ham Lane cycle way• Wimborne Town Centre cycle

network• Wimborne Road cycle way

Travel Dorset - one stop shop travel information portal for Dorset -

Measures include

Practical Advice and Support• Maps• Staff travel survey and analysis

including GIS postcode plotting• Help with producing Travel Action Plan• Site audits and car parking policy

reviews• Assistance with cycle to work scheme• Assistance with business travel grant

Measures include

Sustainable Travel Promotion support:• Presentations at staff meetings• Travel clinic – bespoke journey planning

advice• Dr Bike maintenance sessions• Cycle security tagging

What’s it all about?

A comprehensive energy review covering:• Energy Contracts• Lighting• Renewables• Telecommunications• Water• De-stratification• Heating systems• Fuel efficiency magnets• Air leakage• Paper reducing mobile technologies

What’s in it for me?

• Benchmark review of your current energy usage

• A cost analysis of potential actions to reduce the costs of your energy use

• A series of recommendations• A certificate acknowledging your starting point

with 5 levels of certification• Membership to the Green PEA network

Case Study: Dolphin Indoor Bowls Club, Poole

Installed LED lighting across rinks 8-11 with the remainder to be installed in the summer.Expected savings:£8,870 paPayback:2 years

So how much will this service cost me?

• Survey, membership and certification process is entirely FREE!

• Any works recommended as a result of the survey would be at your own discretion and costs.

• There are funding streams available for most of the options reviewed by Green PEA

For more information

• Fill out your contact details on the form

• Visit the Green PEA website by going to www.greenpeascheme.org.uk

• Email Lee Merchant, Scheme Administrator l.merchant@poole.gov.uk