RTPI Planning for Gear Change

Planning for Active Travel

In 2020, the Gear Change vision announced that, “England will be a great walking and cycling nation,” and “Cycling and walking will be the natural first choice for many journeys with half of all journeys in towns and cities being cycled or walked by 2030.”

With interventions like Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, CYCLOPS junctions, and Sparrow crossings becoming ever more commonplace, how are planners helping to fulfil this ambition?

Introduced by Ian Pennington, Senior Infrastructure Planner at WSP and Vice Chair of the RTPI North West Young Planners Task Group

• Working Together to enable Active Travel for all – Eve Holt, Strategic Director at GreaterSport (supporting GM Moving) and a Councillor on Manchester City Council
• An Introduction to the Bee Network – Dr Richard Nickson, Programme Director -Cycling and Walking at Transport for Greater Manchester
• Planning for Inclusive Active Travel: From Design to Experience – Dr Harriet Larrington-Spencer, Research Fellow at Active Travel Academy, University of Westminster
• Autism-Inclusive Streets – Atefeh Motamedi, Planner at Atkins, Co-founder of Neurodiversity in Planning
• An Introduction to Active Travel England and Its Role in the Planning System – Catriona Swanson, Associate Director (Walking and Cycling), and Harriet Haldenby, Placemaking and Active Travel Consultant, both at Phil Jones Associates
• Dutch Courage: The Challenges and Opportunities of Mini Holland Schemes – Kate Balderson, Principal Transport Planner (Active Travel) at WSP

Reading Material

• Net Zero Transport: the role of spatial planning and place-based solutions
• Children and town planning:  Creating places to grow – practice advice
• Women and Planning (Part 11):  Creating Sensitive Urban Environments Post-Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities
• 20 Minute Neighbourhoods:  Implementing 20 Minute Neighbourhoods in Planning Policy and Practice

Book on the RTPI website