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  3. Annual Monitoring Report

Annual Monitoring Report

In this section

  1. Rotherham Local Plan
  2. Introduction
  3. Local Development Scheme
  4. Monitoring Framework
  5. Housing
  6. Key Projects
  7. Tables of indicators: Table A: Delivering Development in Sustainable Locations
  8. Tables of indicators: Table B: Creating Mixed and Attractive Places to Live
  9. Tables of indicators: Table C: Supporting a Dynamic Economy
  10. You are here: Tables of indicators: Table D: Movement and Accessibility
  11. Tables of indicators: Table E: Managing the Natural and Historic Environment
  12. Table F: Creating Safe and Sustainable Communities.
  13. Table F: Infrastructure and Implementation
  14. Glossary

Tables of indicators: Table D: Movement and Accessibility

Performance Key:

Improving / On Target = ↑  Declining / Not on Target = ↓ No Change / No Update = ↔

Table D: Movement and Accessibility

POLICY AREA

INDICATOR

TARGET / AIM

COMMENTS

 

CS14: Accessible places and managing demand for travel

Percentage of completed non-residential development complying with car parking

standards set out in the Council's current parking standards

 

All developments to be in compliance

 

Commercial / retail developments assessed

 

Current Performance:

 

All developments in compliance during the year

↑

Improving / On Target

CS14: Accessible places and managing demand for travel

Public transport patronage and modal share

Increase in public transport usage

South Yorkshire Passenger

Transport Executive, LTP3 indicator

 

Current Performance:

In 2021 public transport share =8.86 up from the Covid affected share of 5.16%. Car,LGV and MC share fell to 80.36% from 83.86%

No update as cordon counts were not conducted due to budget issues

↑

Improving / On Target

CS14: Accessible places and managing demand for travel

 

Walk / cycle modal share

Increase walking and cycling share of journeys made

South Yorkshire Passenger

Transport Executive, LTP3 indicator

 

Current Performance:

 

In 2021 walk / cycle model increased from 6.06% to 6.58

No update as cordon counts were not conducted due to budget issues

↑

Improving / On Target

CS14: Accessible places and managing demand for travel

Numbers killed or seriously injured on the borough's roads

Reduce number being killed or seriously injured

South Yorkshire Passenger

Transport Executive, LTP3 indicator

POLICY AREA

INDICATOR

TARGET / AIM

COMMENTS

 

Current Performance:

Measured on 5 year average. To 2009 = 99, five year average to 2015 reduced to 92. Change of recording procedures used by SY police in 2016 figure of 101 (new baseline), 2017 increased to 109,

2018 to 118, 2019 to 135 and 2020 to 144

No update available

 

↓

Declining / Not on Target

 

 

CS15: Key Routes and the

Strategic Road Network

 

Congestion - vehicle speed during the weekday morning

peak

Mitigate the impact of increasing car ownership and usage on

congestion on the key routes around Rotherham

 

 

South Yorkshire PTE - LTP3.

 

 

Current Performance:

Average speed on Local Roads by Local Authority showed a decline in 2022 to 26.3 (CGN0503d) from 27.0 in 2021

↓

Declining / Not on Target

 

CS15: Key Routes and the

Strategic Road Network

Public transport punctuality, reliability and journey times

Improve public transport

South Yorkshire PTE - LTP3. 

 

 

Current Performance:

Bus punctuality (now measured from Real Time bus data) FY 2022/2023 = 79.5% (down from 83.6%)

Bus reliability = 97.4% (up from 96.9%)

↔
No Change / No Update 

 

 

CS16: New roads

No significant increase in capacity expected, but -

;; Rotherham-Sheffield Rapid Bus Transit scheme in operation from October 2018.

Parkway widening scheme at J33 of M1 now underway and completed November 2022.

Current Performance:

No indicator - measurement suggested (for information)

POLICY AREA

INDICATOR

TARGET / AIM

COMMENTS

 

CS17: Passenger rail connections

Land for local rail projects not to

 

be lost for other development

Support development of rail

 

network by safeguarding land for

local rail projects

 

Current Performance:

Rotherham Mainline and Waverley - RMBC is actively seeking to purchase the land required for Rotherham Mainline station and have a £10m Towns Fund allocation. Work progressing on the OBC for the station which includes masterplanning and land assembly for both the station and tram-train stop.

Waverley station is being taken forward to OBC now, with work led by SYMCA using RMBC CRSTS funding. Land being safeguarded for the station access in negotiations with Harworth, who is the developer of the adjacent housing project

↔
No Change / No Update 

 

CS18: Freight

Amount of goods moved -

Department for Transport,

Continuing Survey of Road Goods Transport (RFS0123)

 

To be set

South Yorkshire Passenger

Transport Executive, LTP3 indicator.

 

 

Current Performance:

New methodology for 2013. Baseline: Rotherham = 39 million tonne and for South Yorkshire 4,176 million tonne kilometres.

SY 2018 = 2,823 million tonne kms (n/a for Rotherham)

SY 2019 = 3,503 million tonne kms (n/a for Rotherham)

SY 2020 = 2,856 million tonne kms (n/a for Rotherham)

Note: 2021 data not published to date

↔
No Change / No Update 

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