Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council · Metropolitan borough
Transport Statements and Assessments in Stockport
What transport evidence a Stockport 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
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council sets its parking standards in the document below. Use it for the car and cycle provision your scheme needs.
Source: Stockport adopted parking standards (Core Strategy Policies T-1 and T-2)Confirmed 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 Stockport, may also apply to your site.
Stockport Core Strategy DPD
- CS9Transport and Development
- CS10An Effective and Sustainable Transport Network
- T-1Transport and Development
- T-2Parking in Developments
- T-3Safety and Capacity on the Highway Network
- T-4Protecting Disused Rail Alignments
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.