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Local Transport Plan

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• Local Transport Plan 2006-2010
  • Executive Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Challenges and Opportunities
  • 3 Delivering Value for Money
  • 4 Local Programmes
  • 5 Major Scheme Proposals
  • 6 Performance Management
  • Appendix A Regional Transport Strategy Objectives
  • Appendix B Regional Economic Strategy
  • Appendix C Ambition Lancashire and LTP Objectives
  • Appendix D Links to the Joint Lancashire Structure Plan
  • Appendix E SEA Non-technical Summary
  • Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
  • Index
  • 7 Delivering Accessibility
  • 8 Tackling Congestion
  • 9 Better Air Quality
  • 10 Safer Roads
  • 11 Other Quality of Life Issues
    • 11.1 Global Warming
    • 11.2 Noise
    • 11.3 Landscape and Biodiversity
    • 11.4 Quality of Public Spaces
    • 11.5 Healthy Communities
    • 11.6 Sustainable and Prosperous Communities
    • 11.7 Recreation and the Rights of Way Network
  • 12 Managing our Transport Assets
  • Appendix F Review of Partner Documents
  • Appendix G Strategic Accessibility Analysis
  • Appendix H Accessibility Questionnaire
  • Appendix I Making the Connections in Lancashire
  • Appendix J Traffic Flow Level Analysis
  • List of Annexes
  • Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
  • Index
  • Scheme Delivery and LTP Spending
  • Appendix A: Maintenance Information
  • Appendix B: Finance Forms
  • Appendix C: Road Traffic Report
  • National Transport Targets
• Supporting Documents
• Annual Progress Report 2005
• LTP Delivery Report 2001-2006
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11 Other Quality of Life Issues

• global warming
• noise
• our landscape and wildlife
• the quality of our public spaces
• the health of our communities
• sustainability
• recreation, leisure and our public rights of way

Lancashire can demonstrate a long record of caring for the environment. In 1991 Lancashire published A Green Audit on behalf of the Lancashire Environment Forum. Work to protect the environment was set out in LEAP, the Lancashire Environmental Action Plan. From 2001, work continued under Agenda 21 and in 2003 Lancashire's Local Agenda 21 Strategy Final Report was published.

In 2003, the Lancashire Environment Partnership was established, building on membership of the Lancashire Environment Forum. The Partnership will develop, implement and monitor the Lancashire Environment Strategy published in 2004, which has four key themes;

• Climate Change
• Health and Environment
• Sustainable Resource Management, and
• Landscape, Heritage and Wildlife,

with a cross-cutting fifth theme of Education and Awareness Raising. Transport measures will make a contribution to each of these.

To accompany the Lancashire Environment Strategy, the County Council will develop an internal Environmental Management Strategy to co-ordinate the environmental procedures within the authority. Successful delivery will rely upon the participation of all County Council services to complete the actions set out in the strategy, complemented by those of the Best Value review Protecting the Environment.

Lancashire is the manager of REMADE, the Reclamation and Management of Derelict Land, which is funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency. A quarter of all derelict land in England is located in the North West, and the target for REMADE is to reclaim 25% of this by 2011. In addition, Lancashire is able to fund environmental improvements through the

• Lancashire Environmental Action Fund
• Lancashire Small Sites Reclamation programme, and
• Green Partnership Awards.

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