BLL Networking breakfast agenda Timing Activity / presentation 8.15am – 8.25am Welcome from Lynsey Harris 8.25am – 8.40am Bury Local Links presentation – Lynsey Harris Local business involvement with Bury Local Links 8.40am – 9.10am • West Suffolk Hospital (10 mins each • Burnett Barker Solicitors average) • 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
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 BLL recognises the achievements of all members Expressed interest in Completed a sustainable receiving sustainable travel action plan travel support Recognition Bronze Beginning to Ongoing promotion of measures and implement Travel participation in travel campaigns, Action Plan and run devising new innovative solutions promotions & events and recording a reduction in single occupancy car use Silver Gold
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 organisations over the next year working with them to promote sustainable travel amongst their staff
Title here Travel Planning Sub-heading Sub-heading
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
Cycling BUG Cycle storage Secure cycle storage Cycle2Work scheme Events and promotions
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
01 02 03 Geographica Irregular You are l spread hours the traffic Challenges
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
What our ‘I’ve started cycling again after staff 30 years, I was a bit shaky to start but I love it now and cycle thought? into town at the weekends instead of driving too’ ‘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 get to car share and save money on my travel, while having a friend make the journey seem quicker!’ ‘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 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 KEEPING ACTIVE CHOICES THROUGH ACTIVE COMMUTING
Project Group Presentation Feedback from the MAP Consultation David Lock Associates 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
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