Comment

Representation ID: 45888

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Transport for West Midlands

While we support policy DEL3 to roll out digital connectivity across the Black Country, it fails to capture how enhancing digital services may help reduce the need to travel or mitigate the transport impacts of new development.

Under this policy, reference should also be made to the Key Route Network’s ‘Connecting Communities’ programme. Sited at the heart of the region’s digital connectivity movement, there is huge opportunity to build upon the existing digital infrastructure already in place across the Black Country. In turn helping reduce the need to travel, impacting positively on safety and reducing the overall demand on the transport network. And therefore, we welcome policy to this in the Black Country Plan.