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Partner, Transport Planning
Sarah has over 25 years of experience in transport planning and transport infrastructure master planning—delivering area-wide transport strategies, successful business cases and major development with a focus on sustainable development strategy and implementation.
Sarah joined Ridge in September 2022 to help grow the transport planning business.
Sarah has built up a strong portfolio of prestigious, private sector land development clients and local authorities. She has led a range of land development projects from site identification/screening through to delivery, including the promotion of sites through local planning frameworks, supporting planning applications, and funding bids. This has involved supporting both private and public sectors on mixed-use developments, housing developments, education schemes, health centres, leisure centres, and transport infrastructure schemes, including railway stations, public transport interchanges, highway schemes, and car parks. She has led the development of Local Transport Plans, policies and strategies, option assessments, feasibility and design of infrastructure, and case making.
Sarah has managed and coordinated numerous high profile multi-disciplinary projects, including Land North of Horsham, Kilnwood Vale near Crawley, Green Park Station in Reading, Rowden Park and Showell Farm in Chippenham, Kimmerfields in Swindon, Land West of Copthorne in Mid Sussex, Daws Hill in High Wycombe, New Eastern Villages in Swindon, Active Travel and Levelling Up Funding bids, and Mass Rapid Transit Schemes in Reading, and Reading’s Local Transport Plan.
Population growth is fuelling an increased need for transport and placing an ever greater burden on the existing network. To meet the needs of our communities both now and in the future, smart, integrated and sustainable transport solutions must be provided.
Property development can have a significant impact on the local and strategic road network, highway safety and the environment. Ridge has created a range of strategies, technologies, models and simulations, to help keep people moving efficiently and safely, and with a lower demand for energy.
Ridge provide a wide range of transport planning and engineering advice and services from master-planning and feasibility studies, to integrated transport systems and travel plans, design of transport infrastructure and improvement schemes for public and private sectors.
Solving transport problems is often critical in unlocking the development potential of your site. Engaging Ridge as early as possible enables us to influence scheme design and assemble data to demonstrate the viability of a project to statutory authorities. We present commercially focused solutions to ease congestion, reduce carbon emissions and improve safety.
Partner, Transport Planning
Chris is a chartered Transport Planner with a MSc in Transport Planning. He has 15 years’ experience working in the private sector for a mix of private and public-sector clients on a variety of commissions across sectors.
Chris joined Ridge and Partners in October 2019 to lead the Transport Planning business.
Chris has a wealth of previous experience as a project manager and project director working on a range of development projects, he has detailed experience of traffic impact studies for both commercial and residential developments as well as technical transport studies for public sector clients such as Transport for London.
His work portfolio includes; local transport plan and local plan reviews and submission of transport representations, planning appeals, highways development control for local authorities and Highways England, urban transport studies, traffic management studies, transport interchange study and design, highways master-planning, and transport assessments and travel plans.
Chris also has Public Inquiry experience, successfully delivering developments on proposals that have been unreasonably refused. Recently, Chris has been successful in overturning South Somerset District Council’s decision to refuse a development of 27 dwellings in Castle Cary and North Somerset Council’s decision to refuse development of 59 dwellings at Wrington.
‘At Ridge Traffic and Transportation, we see Transport as an opportunity not a constraint.’
Partner, Transport Planning
Sarah has over 25 years of experience in transport planning and transport infrastructure master planning—delivering area-wide transport strategies, successful business cases and major development with a focus on sustainable development strategy and implementation.
Sarah joined Ridge in September 2022 to help grow the transport planning business.
Sarah has built up a strong portfolio of prestigious, private sector land development clients and local authorities. She has led a range of land development projects from site identification/screening through to delivery, including the promotion of sites through local planning frameworks, supporting planning applications, and funding bids. This has involved supporting both private and public sectors on mixed-use developments, housing developments, education schemes, health centres, leisure centres, and transport infrastructure schemes, including railway stations, public transport interchanges, highway schemes, and car parks. She has led the development of Local Transport Plans, policies and strategies, option assessments, feasibility and design of infrastructure, and case making.
Sarah has managed and coordinated numerous high profile multi-disciplinary projects, including Land North of Horsham, Kilnwood Vale near Crawley, Green Park Station in Reading, Rowden Park and Showell Farm in Chippenham, Kimmerfields in Swindon, Land West of Copthorne in Mid Sussex, Daws Hill in High Wycombe, New Eastern Villages in Swindon, Active Travel and Levelling Up Funding bids, and Mass Rapid Transit Schemes in Reading, and Reading’s Local Transport Plan.
Provision of Traffic and Transport advice to Since 2016
Successfully supported through the town planning process since 2016
Led by Traffic and Transportation since 2016
Traffic Volume, Speed and Car Parking Stress surveys managed since 2016
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