Travel plan and monitoring fee thresholds
Depending on the size and location of a development, different types of travel plans will be required.
Land use pre-2020 | Land use post-2020 | Size of development | Type of travel plan | Monitoring fee (Index linked April 2024) (£) |
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A1 Food retail - sale of food goods to the public:
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E(a) Display or retail sale of goods, other than hot food | Over 3500m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
1000-3499m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
250–999m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
A1 Non-food retail - sale of non-food goods to the public:
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E(a) Display or retail sale of goods, other than hot food | Over 3500m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
1500-3499m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
800–1499m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
A2 Financial & professional services Financial services, including banks, building societies & bureaux de change Professional services (other than health or medical services) including estate agents & employment agencies Other services- betting shops, principally where services are provided to visiting members of the public. |
E(c)(i) Financial services, E(c)(ii) Professional services (other than health or medical services) |
Over 3500m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
2500-3499m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
1000–2499m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
A3 Restaurants & Cafes - selling food to be eaten on the premises. Excludes internet cafés (now A1). | E(b) Sale of food and drink for consumption (mostly) on the premises | Over 3500m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
2500-3499m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
300–2499m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
A4 Drinking Establishments public houses, wine-bars or other drinking establishments. | Sui Generis | Over 1000m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
300–999m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
A5 Hot Food takeaway eaten on or off the premises | Sui Generis | Over 1000m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 |
250 to 999m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
B1 Business -
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E(g) Uses which can be carried out in a residential area without detriment to its amenity: E(g)(i) Offices to carry out any operational or administrative functions, E(g)(ii) Research and development of products or processes E(g)(iii) Industrial processes |
Over 5000m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
2500-4999m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
1500-2499m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
B2 General Industrial (not included in B1) The former ‘special industrial‘ use classes (B3 to B7), are now all included in B2. | B2 General industrial - Use for industrial process other than one falling within class E(g) (previously class B1) (excluding incineration purposes, chemical treatment or landfill or hazardous waste) | Over 5000m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
4000-4999m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
2500–3999m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
B8 Storage or distribution
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B8 Storage or distribution - This class includes open air storage. | Over 7500m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
3000-7499m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
2000-2999m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
C1 Hotels Includes: Hotels boarding houses & guest houses where ‘no significant element of care is provided‘. | C1 Hotels - Hotels, boarding and guest houses where no significant element of care is provided (excludes hostels) | Over 150 bedrooms | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
100 to 149 bedrooms | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
75 to 99 bedrooms | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
C2 Residential institutions hospitals or nursing homes providing care to people. | C2 Residential institutions – Residential care homes, hospitals and nursing homes | Over 75 beds | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
50 to 74 beds | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
30 to 49 beds | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
C2 Residential institutions
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C2 Residential institutions - Boarding schools, residential colleges and training centres | Over 225 students | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
150 to 224 students | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
50 to 149 students | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
C2 Residential institutions
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C2A Secure Residential Institution - Use for a provision of secure residential accommodation, including use as a prison, young offenders institution, detention centre, secure training centre, custody centre, short term holding centre, secure hospital, secure local authority accommodation or use as a military barracks | Over 600 residents | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
400 to 599 residents | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
250 to 399 residents | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
C3 Dwelling Houses - includes dwellings for individuals, families, or not more than six people living together as a single household. Not more than six people living together includes:
C4 Houses in multiple occupation - Small shared houses occupied by between three and six unrelated individuals, as their only or main residence, who share basic amenities such as a kitchen or bathroom. |
C3 Dwellinghouses - This class is formed of three parts
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Over 400 homes | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
200 to 399 homes | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
80 to 199 homes | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
50 to 79 homes | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
10 to 49 homes | Travel Information Pack | None | ||
D1 Non residential institutions, Medical and health services:
Places of worship, religious instruction and church halls. |
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Over 1500m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
1000 to 1499m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
500 to 999m² | Travel Plan Statement | None | ||
D2 Assembly & Leisure
other indoor and outdoor sports and leisure uses not involving motorised vehicles or firearms. |
F2(c) Areas or places for outdoor sport or recreation (not involving motorised vehicles or firearms) F2(d) Indoor or outdoor swimming pools or skating rinks Sui generis:
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Over 2250m² | Travel Plan | £3,347 |
1500 to 2249m² | Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
500 to 1499m² | Travel Plan Statement | None |
Schools / education
Land use | Type of development | Type of travel plan | Monitoring fee (Index linked April 2024) (£) | |
Schools / Education | New | Travel Plan | £3,347 | |
Increase in the school roll | Updated Travel Plan | £2,035 | ||
Others (fall outside of land uses above) for example:
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Discuss with Highways Authority |
Additional considerations
Land use | Type of Travel plan | Monitoring Fee (Index Linked April 2024) (£) | ||
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Development proposals generating more than 30 two-way vehicular movements in any hour, or more than 100 two-way vehicular movements in 24 hours, or more than 100 parking spaces | Travel Plan | Min £2,035 | ||
Development proposals not conforming to adopted development plan | Travel Plan | Min £2,035 | ||
An extension to an existing development that causes the total travel impact or size of the site to exceed the threshold for a Travel Plan | Travel Plan | Min £2,035 | ||
Any traffic-generating development in, or within 100 metres of an air quality management area (AQMA) | Travel Plan | Discuss with Highway Authority | ||
Any development that lies within an area (or along a corridor) which has been identified by Oxfordshire County Council for the delivery of specific initiatives or targets for the reduction of traffic, or the promotion of walking, cycling and public transport | Travel Plan | Discuss with Highway Authority | ||
Development that is likely to exacerbate local congestion and safety problems | Travel Plan | Discuss with Highway Authority | ||
Developments or their access routes are adjacent to Sites of Special Scientific Interest etc. | Travel Plan | Discuss with Highway Authority |
For mixed-use developments, a framework travel plan covering all land uses will be required to accompany outline planning applications developments and then a supplementary plan, using the thresholds in the table, for each use land use elements on the site produced for each land use that links to the overall site targets and objectives.
The travel plan monitoring fee is to cover biennial monitoring over five years (baseline, years 1, 3, and 5). The fee may be higher if it is decided that monitoring needs to extend beyond year 5.
The base fee level for the travel plan monitoring is set in the Oxfordshire County Council Guidance Document Transport for New Developments; Transport Assessments and Travel Plans (March 2014). This fee has been uplifted in line with RPI-x. The current fee uplift is set to April 2025 (RPI-x) index base.
Index base data: RPI-x March 2014 = 254.3, RPI-x Dec 2020 = 296.6