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People working in the local area have the chance to win £250 in vouchers by taking part in the next stage of the Harlow & Gilston Garden Town travel survey.
Local businesses will be contacted by the Garden Town team over the next four weeks to see how their employees travel from home to the workplace.
And all employees who take part in the five-minute survey, and provide an email, will be entered into the prize draw with four £250 in Love2Shop vouchers up for grabs.
If you work in Harlow but live elsewhere then click here to get involved
The Garden Town will be teaming up with data experts, Stantec, to analyse the results.
Stantec will also have a team from Power Marketing stationed at key retail locations throughout Harlow this month, asking people how they travel to and around the town.
Talking more about the aims of the employee and shopper travel surveys, the Garden Town’s Paul Wilkinson commented: “The national census, which is every ten years, only asks about travel to work and the 2021 survey was impacted by the pandemic.
“It means we have very little data on how people move around the local area.
“We started the process of plugging those gaps last year by asking residents across Harlow what their mode of transport is and now we’re looking to refine that information by seeing how people travel into the area for work, and how they travel to places like the Harvey Centre and the Water Garden.
“It means we can build up a picture of travel locally and that will help us with future planning across the new Garden Town neighbourhoods and the supporting infrastructure.”
Garden Town board member and Harlow Council’s Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Regeneration and Strategic Growth, Michael Hardware, added: “We’re on the edge of exciting change locally with significant growth around Harlow and the regeneration of the town centre.
“Harlow will increasingly become a go to destination for leisure, retail and job opportunities in the future.
“Understanding how people travel locally gives us vital information that will ensure we’re providing the right infrastructure, not only for our existing residents, who will be the first to benefit from the regeneration, but for those that move to the area in the future.”
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