Part II Local transport
Local transport plans and bus strategies
108 Local transport plans.
(1)
Each local transport authority must—
(a)
develop policies for the promotion and encouragement of safe, integrated, efficient and economic transport F1... to, from and within their area, and
(b)
carry out their functions so as to implement those policies.
(2)
F2In subsection (1), “transport” means —
(a)
F3the transport required to meet the needs of persons living or working in the authority’s area, or visiting or travelling through that area, and
(b)
F3the transport required for the transportation of freight;
andF4includes facilities and services for pedestrians.
F5(2ZA)
Each local transport authority whose area is in England must—
(a)
in developing policies in accordance with subsection (1)(a), and
(b)
in carrying out their functions in accordance with subsection (1)(b),
comply with the duties set out in subsection (2ZB).
(2ZB)
The duties are—
(a)
to take into account any policies announced by Her Majesty's government, and
(b)
to have regard to any guidance issued for the purposes of this paragraph by the Secretary of State,
with respect to mitigation of, or adaptation to, climate change or otherwise with respect to the protection or improvement of the environment.
(2ZC)
The power to issue guidance under subsection (2ZB)(b) does not affect the generality of the power to issue guidance under section 112(1).
F6(2A)
Each local transport authority whose area is in Wales must also—
(a)
develop policies for the implementation in their area of the Wales Transport Strategy, and
(b)
carry out their functions so as to implement those policies.
F7(3)
Each local transport authority whose area is in England must prepare a document to be known as (or two or more documents to be known together as) the local transport plan containing—
(a)
their policies under subsection (1)(a);
(b)
their proposals for the implementation of those policies.
(3A)
Each local transport authority whose area is in Wales must prepare a document to be known as the local transport plan containing—
(a)
their policies under subsection (1)(a), and
(b)
their policies under subsection (2A).
(3B)
A local transport authority whose area is in England must, in complying with the duty under subsection (1)(b), have regard to the proposals contained in their plan.
(4)
In this Part “local transport authority” means—
(a)
a county council in England,
(b)
a council of a non-metropolitan district in England comprised in an area for which there is no county council,
F8(c)
an Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area in England,
F9(ca)
a combined authority,
(d)
a county council or county borough council in Wales.
F12(4A)
A county council or a council of a non-metropolitan district is not a local transport authority where—
(a)
the council is a constituent council of a combined authority or a combined county authority (and here “constituent council” has the meaning given by section 104(11) of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 in relation to a combined authority and section 10(11) of the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023 in relation to a combined county authority), and
(b)
the combined authority or combined county authority has completed its first full financial year.
(4B)
Where a local transport authority is a mayoral combined authority, the functions of the combined authority under this section are exercisable only by the mayor acting on behalf of the combined authority.
(4C)
Where a local transport authority is a mayoral CCA, the functions of the combined county authority under this section are exercisable only by the mayor acting on behalf of the combined county authority.
F13(5)
In this Part “local transport policies” means policies developed under subsection (1)(a).