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Hawkridge Court Housing Scheme
Travel Pack
January 2021
Hawkridge Court Travel Pack 1
What is a Travel Plan?
A Travel Plan is a package of measures that aim to encourage more
sustainable travel choices where and when possible as well as monitor the
progress. This Scheme Travel Pack has been specifically designed for you, to
help demonstrate the travel options available to and from your home at
Hawkridge Court, Selsfield Drive, Brighton.
The overall aims of the Hawkridge Court Travel Plan are:
• To reduce the number of single occupancy car journeys to and from the
development;
• To promote more sustainable travel habits such as, walking, cycling and
using public transport;
• Promote and encourage healthy and active lifestyles with a strong focus
on the local community; and
• Provide advice to all residents on how to improve local travel habits.
Benefits of this Travel Pack to you and the community are:
• Improving health and wellbeing;
• Reducing your travel costs;
• Improving your accessibility to local services; • Increasing the local road
safety;
• Reducing travel times;
• Improving your travel choices and options; and
• Creating a cleaner, more vibrant local community.
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Welcome to Hawkridge Court
Hawkridge Court is well connected to local transport links and the wider
city. The block of flats is located on Selsfield Drive, just off the Lewes Road
(A270) and is approximately 400m east of Moulsecoomb Station. The
Lewes Road forms part of a Sustainable Transport Corridor with very
frequent bus services from the City Centre. There are two supermarkets
Aldi and Sainsburys which are within 16 minutes and 19 minutes walk
respectively from Hawkridge Court. Alternatively, you can take one of the
frequent bus services (every 7 minutes) which takes 11 minutes for Aldi and
13 minutes for Sainsburys.
Fig 1 – Facilities Map
The central location of Hawkridge Court means that you are able to access
local community facilities, health services (e.g. the Avenue GP Surgery) etc.
by foot or by bus, without the need to travel by car.
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Planning your journey
Journey On offers travel advice for Brighton & Hove. It shows real time bus
and traffic information plus it has a unique journey planning tool. This tool
can help you plan a route across the city and work out the time, cost,
carbon emissions and even the number of calories you’ll burn along the
way. Please visit: www.journeyon.co.uk for more details.
Walking
Walking is a great way to get around and the best thing is that it is free. It’s
also an easy way to get fitness into your daily routine. It is recommended
that adults get 150 minutes of exercise per week (which works out as 30
minutes per day over five days in the week). One of the easiest ways to
accomplish this is heading out for a brisk walk! There are many benefits to
walking:
• Can help maintain body weight and lower the risk of obesity;
• Can lower the risk of chronic diseases and high blood pressure;
• Improvements to your mood and wellbeing; and also
• Studies show that it can encourage and improve creativity!
Hawkridge Court is just minutes away from shops and services along the
Lewes Road, Moulsecoomb Railway Station, Wild Park and Bevendean
Down Local Nature Reserves, Moulsecoomb and Bevendean Primary
Schools as well as Doctors Surgeries such as the Avenue GP Surgery. All are
fairly level and good for walking and cycling. For some journeys, it is often
quicker to walk. Any distance up to 400 metres is faster than catching a
bus. The majority of the streets and areas shown in Fig 1 (page 1) can be
walked in under 25 minutes.
Key destinations in the local area are listed in Fig 2.
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Fig 2 – Walking times to key destinations
Destination Distance from site Time taken to walk
Moulsecoomb Station 0.2 miles 5 minutes
Moulsecoomb Primary School 0.3 miles 6 minutes
The Avenue GP Surgery 0.3 miles 6 minutes
Bevendean Primary School 1.1 miles 22 minutes
Wild Park 0.6 miles 12 minutes
Funplex 1.2 miles 26 minutes
B&Q 0.7 miles 14 minutes
Aldi Supermarket 0.8 miles 16 minutes
Sainsburys supermarket 1 mile 19 minutes
To help you plan your walk, an Apple iPhone application is available:
www.walkit.com
Cycling
Cycling is a great way to get about and is also a great alternative to walking
as it makes more places accessible. Cycling is around three times faster
than walking and in some cases it’s quicker than driving too! Cycling has a
huge number of benefits, including:
• Improving wellbeing by relieving stress;
• Helps prevent chronic and life threatening illnesses;
• Being more cost effective than running a car. Did you know, maintaining
a bike for a year costs twenty times less than maintaining and driving a car;
and
• Reducing congestion and pollution on our roads.
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In Brighton & Hove, cycling is one of the fastest modes of transport, door to
door. When you take into account the traffic and cost of car or bus, cycling
quickly becomes a sensible option for getting around.
The City Centre (including Churchill Square and the Laines), seafront and
Brighton Station are within a reasonable cycling distance of the scheme.
There are bike‐friendly routes (National Cycle Route 2) along the Lewes
Road (A270), London Road (A23) and the seafront. There is also an
excellent provision of cycle stands located at Brighton Station, Grand
Parade, Old Steine and St Peters Church for commuters, visitors and
shoppers.
Like walking, cycling is a great way to exercise. You could use your bike to
visit relatives and friends, to commute to work or when travelling around
the city. You don’t have to do it every day, but just once a week stops your
bike getting rusty!
Cycle maps are available at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/cycling. This
website allows you to easily plan cycle journeys with variable route options
available to all levels of cyclist.
For details of National Cycle Routes and all matters to do with cycling see:
www.sustrans.org
If you wish to record your cycle ride and compare your performance
overtime, as well as share with the local community you should visit:
www.strava.com. Strava can also be used for running, walking and other
workouts.
Cycle Parking
Covered and secure cycle parking is provided within two cycle stores at
Hawkridge Court, enough for 36 bicycles. There is also space inside the
wheelchair flats on the ground floor for mobility scooters, together with
charging points.
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Travel by Bus
Hawkridge Court is close to a range of city centre bus stops. The nearest
bus stops are located on Lewes Road and include the No. 23, 24, 25, 28, 29,
29X, 48, 49, 70 , 74, 75, 78 and N25 routes. All of these services can be
picked up from the bus stops either side of Lewes Road which are a 2
minute walk from Hawkridge Court and have live travel information. It
takes about 27 minutes to get to Churchill Square Shopping Centre using
the bus.
Brighton & Hove Bus Tickets
• City single ticket - £2.70
• Short hop single ticket - £1.90
• CentreFare single ticket - £2.20
• 1 Day citySAVER - £ 5.20
• 1 Day networkSAVER - £7.00
• 1 Day Family networkSAVER - £10
• 7 Day citySAVER - £21.60
• Monthly options from £79.00
• 90 Day citySAVER - £208.00
• 12 Month citySAVER - £669.00
Fig 3 - Bus services operating in the Lewes Road area
Service Route
23 Sussex University to Brighton Marina (via Lewes Road,
Queens Park and County Hospital)
24 Churchill Square to Hollingbury (via Open Market,
Lewes Road and Coldean)
25 Universities to Portslade (via Lewes Road, City Centre
and Hove)
28, 29 and 29X Tunbridge Wells to Brighton ( Via Eridge,
Crowborough, Five Ash Down, Uckfield, Halland
Ringmer and Lewes)
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Service Route
48 Lower Bevendean to Churchill Square (via Open
Market)
49 East Moulsecoomb to Portslade (Via Open Market
City Centre and Hove)
School Bus 70 Lower Bevendean to East Moulsecoomb (Via The
Avenue and Lower Bevendean)
School Buses 74, Patcham High School to Elm Grove (Via Coldean and
75 Lower Bevendean)
Breeze 78 Stanmer Village to Brighton Station (Via Lewes Road
and Open Market)
Night bus N25 Universities to Old Steine (Via Lewes Road)
Concessions
It is worth exploring the Key Smartcards and Mobile Ticket Apps for iPhones
and Androids to see whether they offer cheaper fares. Special discounted
prices for carers, students/ young people etc. are also available (Brighton
Carers Card, Student online Key Cards and Mobile Ticket Apps). Older
people and disabled people travel free on buses between 9.30am-11pm on
weekdays and anytime on weekends, providing they show their pass.
Further information about the bus services, concessions and fares can be
found at www.buses.co.uk or call 01273 886200.
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Travelling by car
The Hawkridge Court Travel Pack is not anti-car. However, we do like to
encourage smarter and greener car travel where possible. Did you know:
• Each week, the average person spends seven hours in their car;
• The average annual cost of car insurance is £436; and finally
• Drivers spend on average £89.67 per month on fuel.
Sometimes it’s a necessity to drive, so here are seven eco-driving tips that
can help make a difference to your journey:
1. Service your car regularly to maintain engine efficiency;
2. Check your tyre pressures regularly (and before long journeys), under-
inflated tyres use more fuel as they increase rolling resistance;
3. Lose any unnecessary baggage, extra weight means extra fuel;
4. Combine short trips; cold starts use more fuel so it pays to combine
errands;
5. Drive smoothly, accelerate gently and read the road ahead to avoid
unnecessary braking;
6. Cut down on the air-con; air-conditioning increases fuel consumption at
low speeds (the effects are less noticeable at higher speeds; and
7. The faster you go the greater the fuel consumption (cruising at 70mph
uses up to 9% more fuel than at 60mph and up to 15% more fuel than at
50mph).
Car Sharing and Car Clubs
By sharing the same or similar journeys with other people you can save
money on the cost of car travel as well as meet new people. Lift sharing is a
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great way to reduce travelling costs and reduce your carbon footprint. To
find out more go to: www.liftshare.com
Have you thought about renting a car from a car club? Cars clubs offer car
hire on an hourly and daily basis to their members. Most ask for either a
monthly or annual membership fee. Members can book a car in
advance or pick it up without pre-booking and they pay for the amount
of time the car is used. Businesses can also buy car club membership.
The car club in Brighton & Hove is run by Enterprise. More details can
be found at: www.enterprisecarclub.co.uk/gb/en/home.html
Parking
Hawkridge Court has 15 allocated car park bays. The Bates Estate is located
within Controlled Parking Zone D, where permit restrictions only apply on
Brighton & Hove Albion FC match days and events. All of the car park bays
are available to rent via the council’s Housing Customer Services Team. Full
details of pricing, availability and our online application for car parking
spaces and garages can be found through the interactive map on our
webpage at: www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/garages
If you are unable to apply online or have any questions, please contact a
member of the Housing Customer Services team on 01273 293030 and
they will be able to help you complete an online application over the
phone.
Train Services
Moulsecoomb Station is 0.2 miles from Hawkridge Court and will take you 5
minutes to walk there from your flat. Alternatively, you can catch the bus,
cycle or walk to Brighton Station. The station has 600 car parking spaces
including 28 accessible spaces. There are also 760 cycle spaces within the
purpose built cycle hub by the car park and also at the front of the station.
Services from Brighton Station are run by First Great Western, Gatwick
Express, Southern and Thameslink. There are frequent services giving
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access to many local places as well as London. Key destinations from
Brighton, service frequencies and journey times are set out in Fig 4.
Concessions
You may be eligible for a national railcard which can give you up to one
third off the price of a standard ticket on rail travel. There are nine
different railcards which you may be eligible for. The details can be
accessed at: www.railcard.co.uk/
If you are travelling by train, you may wish to seek further concessions by
buying a PlusBus with your train ticket. PlusBus is a discount price
travelcard for unlimited bus and tram travel around town. For further
details of this travelcard visit: www.plusbus.info/home
Fig 4 – Train services from Brighton Station
Destination Frequency Journey Time
(during peak
hours)
Brighton - London Blackfriars Every 5-7mins 1 hour 9 mins – 1 hour 16 mins
Brighton - London Victoria Every 6-20 mins 1 hour 5 mins – 1 hour 22 mins
Lewes Every 10-15 mins 14 – 17 minutes
Seaford Every 30 mins 36-39 minutes
Worthing Every 11-18 mins 21-27 minutes
Portsmouth & Southsea Every 20-40 mins 1 hour 20 mins – 1 hour 25 mins
Conclusion
We hope that you find the information contained within this Travel Pack
useful. It is important that we all play an active part in reducing carbon
emissions in the city, especially if we are to avoid the catastrophic
consequences of Climate Change for future generations. Anything you are
able to do which brings about a greener, cleaner environment is much
appreciated.
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