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Despite hopes UK's National Planning Policy Framework's explicit requirement that public transport links should be part of decisions for new development, over the last decade the need for car use for those living on new development has remained broadly the same - the Framework has had no real impact in this regard.
If we are to manage a green transition we know we need more extensively used public transport... homes need to be near links!
#FBPE @ChrisMayLA6 Planning authorities can't make bus companies run buses once the s106 has run out.
Yes, its tied up to the problem of privatised bus services, I can see that....
@ChrisMayLA6 And those links need to expand with the developments (as does the rest of the infrastructure). Not far from me an enormous site has been "developed". A vast area of new flats a Km long and equally deep, but still has the same small TfL tube station & bus service. It has one small primary (church) school, one small Co-op with an existing Waitrose near one corner, then some specialist shops another few hundred metres on. So it's a car journey to the pharmacy/GP/shops/ school/work/etc.
Yes, there is a need to take public transport provision a lot more seriously than a sort of 'tick box' provision
@ChrisMayLA6 I may be wrong-I know nothing- but it appears as if planning infrastructure is designed for a different world. One in which a handful of homes would be built at a time, alongside or just beyond the existing development. So it appears that there's no mandatory requirement that, say, building 1000 new homes needs providing extra transport to, or local provision of, life infrastructure for 1000 families. If you build 1000 homes there have to be 500 school places, 20 extra bus journeys.
I think I'm right in saying that local authorities are meant to ensure either the infrastructure is built as part of the project itself (popularly known as 'planning gain' but woefully inadequately required or enforced), or that development be place adjacent to existing infrastructure - the original issue in the post