The inaugral Warwickshire Freight Quality Partnership Forum ("FQP") was held on 5 February 2002 at the Lord Leycester Hotel, Warwick. This concept was initiated by DTLR (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.
A broad range of groups attend the workshops, to represent as wide a cross-section of interests as possible.
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The objectives of the workshops 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 contraol in town centres to manage freight deliveries (e.g. the use of designated loading bays and restriction on the time of day when deliveriescan be made)
In February 2006 the First Edition of the Warwickshire Advisory Lorry Route Map was produced and distributed for use by companies and drivers with interests in the County.
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