4.3.2
Original Document
One approach would be to develop an Urban Freight Consolidation Centre outside the city centre. This would create a ‘hub’ in a less sensitive built environment where large goods vehicles could trans-ship their loads to a fleet of small, low-emissions vehicles that would then redistribute the goods to individual premises within the city centre. The centre would need to be close to the centre to work efficiently.
Plain English Translation
We could have a single place outside the city centre which coordinates all the van and lorry tips into the city. This hub (in a less sensitive area) is a place where big lorries break down their loads to be shared among low emission vans which then visit individual premises within the city centre. The hub would need to be close to the centre.
This would be highly off-putting to business as they would be delays in transferring stock, plus plenty of theft would no doubt go on…