STDEP Toolkits Workshop Making local transport work for you Jason Torrance Policy Director, Sustrans

Evolution of STDEP /16 DfT Revenue competition launched to match £100m in Local Growth Fund SR15 confirms £500m (5 year) Local Growth Fund and £80 revenue via DfT ‘Access Fund’ STDEP 2015 reports on support delivered to 28 LEPs Consultation on Draft Strategy that includes support to LEPs and LAs 1 st year of ‘Access Fund’ Revenue competition launched to join with investment in Local Growth Fund

3 - Department for Transport Programme -delivered by the Active Travel Consortium -co-ordinated by Sustrans in partnership with: British Cycling, CTC, Living Streets and TAS Partnership. 10 areas of support were requested. Top five themes were: Advice on developing the economic case for sustainable transport schemes (requested by 72% of LEPs engaged with the programme). Advice/support on design and development (68%) Advice on action plans for increasing active travel (64%) Advice on monitoring and evaluating (56%) Advice on design, development and management of projects that redesign the public realm (50%) £250,000 of investment from DfT provided support to 28 LEPs. STDEP 2015 – key themes

support will be co-ordinated by Sustrans in partnership with: Living Streets and TAS Partnership to deliver: 1. General support (up to 20 days per LEP) 2. Toolkit development - Housing growth and planning - Economic development - Public health 3. Focussed support (30 days for each one of six LEPs) STDEP 2016 – Programme

STDEP 2016 – timetable 1. Deliver General support (up to 20 days) 2. Toolkit development - Housing growth and planning - Economic development - Public health 3. Deliver focussed support (30 days) Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Initial Engagement with LEPs Gather LEP Priorities via Expressions of Interest (EOI’s) LEP Workshop 1: Understand and develop thematic priority areas Final LEP Network Presentation: Present the final the outputs Clarify support needs via Pro –formas Appointment of project leads for the production of three toolkits. Co-ordinate programme between Consortium partners Sustrans, Living Streets and TAS Partnership. General support begins: Consortium members engaged to provide support Evaluation report to DfT: Present outputs and next steps to consider

LEPs have submitted an EOI requesting support - So far 32 out of 36 proformas have been received. Within the received proformas are: 25 LEPs are requesting support for: Committed Projects LEPs are requesting support for: Provisional Projects LEPs are requesting support for: Advocacy/knowledge/up-skilling STDEP 2016 – emerging themes