Transport strategy and plans

The Local Transport Plan (LTP) outlines our objectives for transport:

• Suffolk's Local Transport Plan - Part 1 (PDF, 1MB) is a 20 year strategy that highlights the council's long-term ambitions for the transport network.
• Suffolk's Local Transport Plan - Part 2 (PDF, 5MB) is a four year implementation plan indicating how the council are proposing to address the issues identified within the longer-term transport strategy.

The following documents support of the development of the Local Transport Plan:

• Strategic Environmental Assessment (PDF, 363KB)
• Scoping Report (PDF, 4MB)
• Habitat Regulations Assessment (PDF, 113KB)
• Signal Policy (PDF, 482KB)

The Suffolk Rail Prospectus (PDF, 1.6MB) sets out the county’s rail priorities over the next 20 years and identifies how interventions can help support and grow the Suffolk economy.

The rail prospectus has been developed in partnership with local authorities, businesses and rail stakeholders.

It'll be used to lobby government, franchise holders and Network Rail to deliver improvements to the county’s rail network and the passenger rail services that operate on it.

East Anglia Rail Prospectus

The Suffolk Rail Prospectus complements the East Anglia Rail Prospectus.

It was developed by the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership in partnership with local authorities from Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. The East Anglia Rail Prospectus contains proposals for addressing strategic issues affecting the East Anglia region. 

New East West Rail Eastern Section Rail Prospectus

The East West Rail Eastern Section Rail Prospectus (PDF, 1.8MB) sets out the economic and growth opportunities that can be realised by providing better rail connectivity between Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge with Milton Keynes, Oxford and beyond. 

The prospectus has been developed by local authorities in Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire in conjunction with New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership and the East West Rail Consortium. Through better rail connectivity, the three counties have the potential to improve economic performance, grow industries, create new jobs, and enable housing growth, as well as reduce road congestion and long journey times. 

The rail route between Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge already exists and will form the Eastern Section of the East West Rail link – a new rail route which will connect the Eastern Section via Cambridge and Bedford (known as the Central Section) with Aylesbury, Milton Keynes and Oxford (the Western Section). 

Work is progressing on delivering the Western Section and a route is being determined for the Central Section, but the Eastern Section urgently needs upgrading before the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire can reach their full economic potential and play their part in forming a strategic rail route from East to West.

Eastern Section stakeholders will be working with East West Rail Consortium partners, Members of Parliament, businesses, national bodies and government organisations to drive forward the improvements needed to support increased passenger rail frequencies, reduce journey times and support more freight on rail.

In March 2014 the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP) submitted its Strategic Economic Plan (SEP) to the government.

This document makes the case for investment in a large number of major transport, infrastructure, skills and housing projects which the NALEP believes are required to help the East Anglian economy provide:

• 95,000 new jobs
• 117,000 new homes
• 10,000 new businesses by 2026

The document will be used as a basis for negotiation between the NALEP and a number of central government departments, including the Department of Transport, on how much central government capital and revenue funding the area of East Anglia will receive for major transport and infrastructure schemes between 2015/16 and 2021.

For more information, call 01603 510070 or email info@newanglia.co.uk

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As part of the Suffolk Roadsafe Partnership, Suffolk County Council analyses collision data across the county, to identify where collisions occur and where road users may be at a higher risk than expected.

The Council works closely with the Police and other partners to investigate the cause of collisions and to establish whether any preventive measures are required in the future. This work helps deliver the main aim of the Suffolk Roadsafe Strategy, which is to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in collisions on the county’s roads.

Download the annual road safety report