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Coaches provided from day one at JCoSS
10:06am Friday 19th March 2010 in
I was disappointed to read letters which wrongly claimed JCoSS had abandoned plans to provide coaches for its students and will instead be relying on private cars, (Your Views, March 11).
I have no idea where such rumours might come from, but I want to reassure both our prospective parents and residents that they are nonsense.
JCoSS will be providing private coaches from day one and we remain committed to doing everything we can to promote alternatives to private car use.
For this reason, we are already in talks with Transport for London about improving public transport options.
Of course, our offers have only just gone out and we don’t yet know exactly where our students will come from.
Self-evidently, the vast majority of our students will live within a six-mile radius that includes the Jewish centres of population of Finchley, Hendon, Edgware, Southgate and Golders Green. Once we have our acceptances in, we will be able to take final decisions on exactly which coach routes will work best, but our best guess is that we will provide between three to five coaches in the first year.
The options under consideration are also on our website. We invite anyone with genuine concerns about our transport plans to contact us.
Lara Samuels, travel officer, Jewish Community State School, Westbrook Crescent, East Barnet
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no_bulldozers_in_new_barnet says...
12:34am Sun 21 Mar 10
Taken from Barnet Planning & Environment Committee meeting, 8th Aug 2007.
JCoSS planning application (ref: N02587K/07) approved under delegated powers subject to the following conditions:
18. Six months prior to first occupation a School Travel Plan Framework and School Travel Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The documents shall set out the school's transport policy to incorporate measures to reduce trips to school by the private car and encourage non car modes such as walking, cycling and public transport. Details of the start and finish times for pupils shall also be incorporated in order to minimise conflict on the local highways network. The scheme as submitted shall be approved in writing by the local planning authority and the use shall be carried out in accordance with the School Travel Plan as approved.
The School Travel Plan should include the appointment of a School Travel Plan Coordinator, measurable targets and a clear action plan for implementing any measures.
19. An annual review of the School Travel Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority in the Summer term of the first academic year of the school commencing and thereafter on an annual basis until the school becomes fully operational after which point a bi-annual review will be required. The review will need to revise targets and action plans in line with increases in the number of pupils. The use shall be carried out in accordance with the School Travel Plan as approved.
43. Six months prior to first occupation a parking and management strategy for school buses using New Barnet station shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority in consultation with Transport for London. The scheme shall include a mechanism for review. The school buses shall be operated in accordance with the strategy as approved.