6.5 National Planning Policy Guideline 17: Transport and Planning (NPPG 17), urges the creation of sustainable patterns of development through joint consideration of transport, land use, economic development and the environment. Integrating transport and land use planning can help reduce the need to travel by: regulating the pattern of land uses in relation to each other and to transport facilities; enabling people to access local facilities; supporting the provision of high quality public transport; and supporting the management of motorised travel to enable it to undertake its essential role effectively.

M8 Motorway

6.6 The Joint Structure Plan promotes improved access, particularly by public transport, to and between work, home, leisure, shops and education, and an increase in the proportion of goods moved by rail. Where practical, major developments should be in locations that are accessible by public transport and measures should be taken to maintain or, if possible, increase levels of public transport use.

6.7 Although not specifically included within the Glasgow Alliance Strategy’s Action Plans, measures to improve transport and accessibility underpin much that the Alliance seeks to achieve, particularly in terms of Action Plan 1: The Economy, and Action Plan 3: Housing, Neighbourhoods and the Environment.

6.8 Both the Council and SPT are preparing Local Transport Strategies. The Plan both takes account of, and informs, these strategies. The aims of NPPG 17, the Joint Structure Plan and the Alliance Strategy are supported by the Plan.