Gloucester City Council · District council
Transport Statements and Assessments in Gloucester
What transport evidence a Gloucester planning application needs, the parking standards that apply, and the policies an assessment should address.
Which document do you need?
National policy asks for a Transport Statement or a Transport Assessment wherever a development will generate significant amounts of movement.
Transport Statement
A shorter document for smaller schemes where transport issues are limited: access, parking, trips and sustainable travel.
Transport Assessment
A full assessment for larger schemes: trip generation, network impact, junction capacity and mitigation.
Parking standards
Gloucester's City Plan sets no car parking tables. Policy G1 asks for car parking appropriate to the local context, and requires at least 1 cycle space for a one-bedroom dwelling, 2 for larger dwellings and 1 per bedroom in houses in multiple occupation.
Source: Gloucester City Plan Policy G1: Sustainable transport and parkingAdopted 26 January 2023Confirmed as the current standard on 10 November 2026
Policies your assessment should address
The transport policies of the development plan documents in the summary panel. A neighbourhood plan, or a plan for one part of Gloucester, may also apply to your site.
Gloucester City Plan 2011-2031
- C5Air quality
- G3Walking
Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy 2011-2031
- INF1Transport Network
- INF6Infrastructure Delivery
- INF7Developer Contributions
This page summarises adopted policy and links to the source documents. It is not legal advice: always confirm a figure against the adopted document before relying on it.