What did LTP3 set out to achieve?

Introduction

East Sussex County Council has a statutory duty to produce a Local Transport Plan (LTP). The third LTP adopted in May 2011 established a vision and five objectives, with priority towards the economy and road safety, which informed the direction of the strategy from 2011 to 2026.

The delivery of the strategy was set out in a series of short-term, 5 year Implementation Plans. These plans detailed the types of interventions for delivery (including infrastructure schemes, services and initiatives), according to the geographic approach and subject to funding being available.


LTP3 vision

To make East Sussex a prosperous county where an effective, well managed transport infrastructure and improved travel choices help businesses to thrive and deliver better access to jobs and services, safer, healthier, sustainable, and inclusive communities, and a high-quality environment


LTP3 objectives

LTP3 had five high level objectives. Many national, regional and East Sussex focussed strategies and priorities influenced the objectives. These included:

  • Sustainable Community Strategy;
  • East Sussex County Council’s corporate priorities;
  • National transport goals; and
  • challenges and opportunities in the county, identified through engagement with key stakeholders.

The high levels objectives for LTP3 were:

  • Improve economic competitiveness and growth;
  • Improve safety, health and security;
  • Tackle climate change;
  • Improve accessibility and enhance social inclusion; and
  • Improve quality of life

The objectives of improving economic competitiveness and growth and improving safety, health and security were prioritised as key objectives that would drive the delivery of the strategy.

The high-level objectives were supplemented by a series of transport specific objectives:

  • Improve strategic and local connectivity of communities to facilitate economic and physical growth and renewal through the Local Enterprise Partnership and Local Development Framework process
  • Reduce congestion by improving the efficiency of the transport network and encouraging greater use of sustainable modes of transport
  • Improve maintenance and efficient management of the transport network
  • Improve road safety for vulnerable road users – pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and horse riders
  • Reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured (KSIs) in road crashes
  • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, local air pollution and noise from transport
  • Increase the resilience of transport infrastructure and services to the effects of climate change
  • Contribute to the protection and enhancement of the local natural and built environment
  • Improve access to jobs, services, and leisure
  • Improve personal health and wellbeing by encouraging and enabling increased physical activity through active travel (i.e. walking and cycling)