Sarah Gibson

Sarah Gibson

Liberal Democrat — Chippenham

Speaking in the House of Commons on 24 February 2026

Debate

Local Transport: Planning Developments

Contribution

The latest NPPF makes it clear that transport planning and infrastructure should be designed in at the outset, but my rural constituency has seen continuous large-scale development outside towns, from which it takes 25 minutes to walk into a town centre. There are no buses. It is not like London where, after waiting five minutes, a bus turns up; a person can wait two hours and nothing turns up. Does my hon. Friend agree that the NPPF needs to allocate funding, on top of the commitment to make sure that transport is considered at the outset?

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