Traffic and Planning
Discussion
Hi All, I was wondering if there were any Planners/Traffic Engineers who could give a view on this.
Locally there are 3 developments in a small market town of 11,000 people.
Development A - 550 houses plus Retail on a large site,finally given Planning permission.
Development B - Sports facilities moved to Green Belt to allow A, given Planning Permission.
Development C - Hypermarket replacing existing modest supermarket, refused Planning Permission by Councillors, now going to Appeal.
Development C was enthusiastically recommended by Planning Department, with minimal or no supporting evidence. Councillors rejected it.
We are aware from a friendly 'mole', that the Traffic people could not make the models work, gridlock was forecast by all 3 developments happening, in addition of the 2 roads running through the town, one can be blocked due to a low bridge, or flooding. (I have photographic evidence of jams caused by one road being closed even in quiet school holiday period)
Development C Planning Report dodged answer re Traffic by saying Dev A and B were not consented,(true at time of the report) so were excluded from modelling, even then there had to be extensive layout changes to try and make this work, however, all roads in and out of the town are single carriageway, with limited capacity, so the problems would just pop up further away from the hypermarket.
We met Councillors and Officials to discuss the Appeal, and when we highlighted Traffic issues, pointing out that now A and B were consented, the modelling would need to be redone, their answer was that A and B were not built, so still not relevant.
We have little trust in the Officials, so an outside opinion would be valued from real Professionals!
Thanks in advance
Locally there are 3 developments in a small market town of 11,000 people.
Development A - 550 houses plus Retail on a large site,finally given Planning permission.
Development B - Sports facilities moved to Green Belt to allow A, given Planning Permission.
Development C - Hypermarket replacing existing modest supermarket, refused Planning Permission by Councillors, now going to Appeal.
Development C was enthusiastically recommended by Planning Department, with minimal or no supporting evidence. Councillors rejected it.
We are aware from a friendly 'mole', that the Traffic people could not make the models work, gridlock was forecast by all 3 developments happening, in addition of the 2 roads running through the town, one can be blocked due to a low bridge, or flooding. (I have photographic evidence of jams caused by one road being closed even in quiet school holiday period)
Development C Planning Report dodged answer re Traffic by saying Dev A and B were not consented,(true at time of the report) so were excluded from modelling, even then there had to be extensive layout changes to try and make this work, however, all roads in and out of the town are single carriageway, with limited capacity, so the problems would just pop up further away from the hypermarket.
We met Councillors and Officials to discuss the Appeal, and when we highlighted Traffic issues, pointing out that now A and B were consented, the modelling would need to be redone, their answer was that A and B were not built, so still not relevant.
We have little trust in the Officials, so an outside opinion would be valued from real Professionals!
Thanks in advance
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