Freight Quality Partnership

The first Warwickshire Freight Quality Partnership Forum (FQP) was held on 5 February 2002 at the Lord Leycester Hotel, Warwick. This concept was initiated by the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions to "develop understanding to distribution issues and problems at a local level and to promote constructive solutions that reconcile the need for access to goods and services with local environmental and social concerns."

The FQP is designed to be an ongoing forum, with periodic workshops, where a representative range of those interested in road freight can inform the development of policy in this area. The objectives are:

to identify a network of roads which lorries can use 24 hours a day, and produce a map indicating these routes for distribution within the road freight industry;
to identify roads in urban areas giving access to town centres and industrial estates which can be used 24 hours a day and to indicate these by appropriate signs;
to decide on appropriate traffic control in town centres to manage freight deliveries (e.g. the use of designated loading bays and restriction on the time of day when deliveries can be made).