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Lauren Graham

Lauren Graham
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Rachel Stout
27 Apr 2026
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Lauren is a Senior Consultant with over eight years’ transport planning experience across a variety of development planning projects. Her expertise crosses a variety of skill sets including site access/accessibility appraisals; working with architects to provide transport inputs to site layout design; writing Transport Assessments/Statements and Travel Plans for residential, leisure, education and employment schemes and the technical work to support it.

Lauren has also provided support to clients at Public Consultations, communicating the highway elements of schemes to members of the public to answer queries and help gain their support.

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SAM, PTAL and the Connectivity Tool

Here we are again: talking about a connectivity metric that is given disproportionate power in planning decision-making. Who is SAM? The draft London Plan (DLP) [1] introduces SAM – the Sustainable Access Measure – and embeds it in the Optimisation Framework [2] and the basis for car-parking standards.  A higher SAM score will support greater...

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Local plans Planning policy

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Goodbye i-Transport and hello iTransport

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For the last 20+ years, iTransport has gone from strength to strength and we now approach almost 100 employees across 6 offices.  Yet our visual identity has largely remained the same since the start. I am therefore delighted to announce and introduce our new brand and refreshed colour palette – goodbye i-Transport and hello iTransport....