Which factors should we investigate for specific sites?

[joeytalbot]

We could do some routing for specific sites, in a reproducible way so that the same methods can be applied to any other site of interest.

This could include:

• [ ] ratio of CycleStreets fast route time/distance to CycleStreets quiet route time/distance, from the development to key local destinations "quietness diversion factor"

• [ ] busyness of the CycleStreets fast route

• [ ] ratio of CycleStreets quiet route time/distance to road traffic time/distance to key local destinations

• [ ] circuity of quiet route (compared to euclidean distance)

• [ ] cycling and walking time to nearest rail station

• [ ] cycling and walking time to nearest bus stop

• [ ] cycling and walking time to nearest town centre

• [ ] cycle parking provision

[mvl22]

This is a good list.

I would ideally add to this: Amount of cycle parking. However, much of it may be private, with garages (private or communal) and so wouldn't likely be on OSM.

circuity of quiet route (compared to euclidean distance)

This one is actually relevant in that it is useful for when a completely new large development is built but no direct cut-through route has been built. However, this one would need to deal with the 'estuary effect' (diversion due to things in the way), e.g. the reasonableness of building say a £2m bridge over a river, or going through private land, or whatever.

[Robinlovelace]

Great thinking on cycle parking @mvl22, I've added that to the checkboxes above.

[MeganStreb]

If you want to look at what Local Planning Authorities are doing already (those that responded to my survey--113 of 335), here's the % of LPAs that currently consider proximity to each destination as a criteria/subcriteria within the suitability assessment for site allocations. Public Transport 63% Primary school 63% GP 54% Town/district centre 53% Green/open spaces 39% Food shop 49% Other 36% (haven't yet processed the open text-- includes village halls, pharmacies, secondary schools, employment centres)

Datasets for GP, primarily school and food shops are presumably available because they are in the NAO tool and the MHCLG Indicators for IMD 2015/2019 as well.

[Robinlovelace]

Hi @MeganStreb many thanks for sharing this info, very useful. It's disappointing how low they are but good that respondents say proximity was considered, interested to know how many of them turned consideration of distance into positive change though! Great to see others get involved in the conversation, being an open project with discussion publicly available GitHub allows others to get involved and it's encouraging when that happens (same with the PCT github pages).