When: 29 April 2022 09:30 - 16:30 including options for afternoon site visits and optional workshops
Where: University of Gloucestershire, Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ
Speaker: Various

This unique event brings together professionals and placemakers from a wide range of disciplines to look at how we can better connect people living in new communities to each other, and their nearby towns and cities. It focuses on the vital importance of listening to the needs of residents and the wider social and wellbeing issues that arise – as well as creative ways to provide transport solutions that match those needs.

We’re bringing together professionals from CILT’s transport planning, passenger transport, active travel and travel demand management fields alongside community rail partnerships, local government, town and parish council representatives, and the university research sector.

As placemakers the one thing that unites us is working together to create sustainable places and communities, where the transport connections and choices enable people to live the lifestyles they need. With the impact of Covid-19 bringing about even more isolation and disconnection, now is the time for us to actively listen and adopt new, more effective ways of engagement.

This is free event kindly made possible by GCRP and the University of Gloucestershire, using funding from GWR and Cross Country Trains grant towards GCRP’s Connecting New Communities project. 

The event will be hybrid with the University onsite sessions accessible through Teams and the event will also be recorded. Spaces limited to  approx. 50 on site on a first come first served basis with all booking via CILT UK’s events team.
We are publicising to the CILT UK Transport Planning faculty members, Active Travel, Bus and Coach, Rail, TDM Forums and the relevant regions. 

Getting to the venue and about our home for the day:
We will be using the architecture and planning suite which will allow for breakout groups and theatre style learning.
The room is fully accessible with a lift to the first floor, with toilet facilities and plenty of light and space.

We will also have an information area where you can find out more about CILT, CRN, the Community Transport Association, the University and the TPP professional qualification.

This is a 15–20-minute walk or 10-minute cycle from Cheltenham Spa station using the Honeybourne cycle path. Buses run regularly to Cheltenham town centre where a short walk will take you direct to the campus. There is a taxi rank at the station, National Express and Megabus coach services also serve Cheltenham and the main coach station is only a 10-minute walk away.

Park and Ride services operate into the town centre from the A40 Golden Valley/Arle Court facility (just off Junction 11 of the M5 and from Cheltenham Racecourse).

Parking is available for a limited number of guests and those with mobility impairments – please contact admin@gloucestershirecommuityrail.org with your details.

You can download GCRP’s access guide to Cheltenham here https://www.gloucestershirecommunityrail.org/access-maps 
Refreshments will be provided on arrival and lunch will also be available. We will be using the University refectory, which is just next door to the venue, but the range will be limited as it is Easter break. Therefore, if anyone has any specific dietary requirements, please contact admin@gloucestershirecommunity.org

About the format of the day
The main masterclass session will be from 09:30 through to lunch at 13:00. In the afternoon there will be choice of afternoon minibus tours or attending some further optional sessions – or if you need to leave early that’s fine too.

The speakers and the timetable:

09:00 Arrival/Registration and refreshments – Refectory 
Time to visit stands in the room

09:30 Welcome 
        Adam Sheppard/Kenny Lynch/Bill Burford (Univ of Glos)
        Jon Harris (GCRP/TDM Forum)
        Deborah Fox (TDM Forum)
 
09:45  Session 1 – The importance of connecting new communities (15 mins per slot) 
• Jon Harris (GCRP/CILT), The GCRP Experience in being a community voice and the Connecting New Communities project 
• Nigel Hinch – (Ability Community Transport) – The community transport perspective 
• The transport authority perspective(Gloucestershire CC TBC or covered by Jon Harris) 
• The developer and residential travel plan perspective (consultant to be confirmed)

10:45 Panel Q and A with Deborah Fox

11:00 Refreshment break (served in the side kitchen area) plus time to visit stands 

11:15 Session 2 – Getting the professional guidance right
• Rob Lowson and Paul Webster (CRN) – Outlining the emerging CRN national guide on Community Rail Partnerships and the planning process , followed by; 
Workshop 1  - Critiquing the new Community Rail Network developer guide 
• Small group workshop looking at the guidance from different perspectives
• Community voice
• Travel Demand Management
• Funding and Section 106 requirements
• Effective long term and viable public transport 

Refreshments available as you do your workshop activity 

12:00 Session 3 – Embedding community understanding early in careers
(Alan Marvell, Kenny Lynch, Adam Sheppard, Rowena Cameron, student reps and others from UoG)
• Insights from University of on thew value of engaging with CRPs, developers and local authorities on sustainable transport projects
• Walking audits
• Access map development
• Wider research 
Followed by small group discussions 
• Ways to engage your local university on establishing a sustainable transport evidence base
• Creative products – low cost and high value  
Final feedback (with Jon Harris) and thank you 

13:00 Close of the masterclass session

Lunch in the refectory 

13:45 Afternoon briefing (back in the architecture suite)
Tour 1 – Great Oldbury, Stonehouse 
Tour 2 – Perrybrook and Coopers Edge, Brockworth  
• Tours will leave at 1400 and will return to the University by 1630 latest. We will drop people at Cheltenham Spa station en route circa 1615. Drivers/Hosts will be Adam Sheppard/ Kenny Lynch. 
• Numbers are limited to 16 total per minibus (32 places available for tours) 

Onsite option:
14:00 - 15:30 Careers and Professional Development in Transport Planning and the TPP qualification (main room) 
• A chance to join a session led by Michelle Wood (PTRC and CIHT) explaining the options for careers in transport planning and the TPP qualification. Also covering the importance of TDM as core competence are for new professionals to understand and develop.
• Open to all lecturers and students plus delegates attending the main event.

Joining instructions, along with details of how to get to the location will be sent to you approx 2 days prior to the event.

Booking for Members - FREE
Booking for Non-Members - FREE

To book please email regions@ciltuk.org.uk with a completed booking form. Please quote TDMF0002

Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk

Kind Regards 

CILT(UK) Regions Team