Transport, Highways and Parking
Transport assessments and statements, travel plans, access, parking surveys and construction traffic.
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224 articlesMobility hubs and shared transport secured by condition
A condition can require the bays and the power supply. It cannot fund an operator or make a car club viable. How to split the commitment so the scheme survives withdrawal.
Network Rail consultation where a crossing is affected
Where a scheme adds movements across a level crossing, the rail operator's risk assessment governs the outcome rather than highway capacity. What the evidence has to show.
Section 59 claims for extraordinary traffic damage
A section 59 claim arrives after the road has been resurfaced, by which point the only useful evidence is the baseline survey nobody took.
Access onto a single track rural lane
On a single track lane the highway objection is about geometry and conflict rather than flow. What to survey, what to draw and how to make a passing bay offer deliverable.
Committed development and cumulative impact in a TA
Agree the committed development list and the background growth factors with the highway authority before commissioning surveys, because the list usually decides the capacity conclusion.
Pedestrian audits and crossing provision evidence
An audit that produces a located, priced schedule of defects and remedies is evidence. A page of photographs is not. How to choose routes, score them and link findings to mitigation.
Bus service contributions and the pump priming period
Revenue support for a bus service is the hardest planning obligation to justify. The three calculation methods, the drafting that makes the obligation work, and the honest position after year five.
Traffic regulation orders funded by a developer
Only the traffic authority can make a traffic regulation order, and it must consider objections before deciding. How to secure one through a planning obligation without taking on a risk you cannot manage.
Transport evidence for a drive-through unit
The decisive question on a drive-through is what happens when the stacking lane fills. How to evidence queue capacity, which peaks to test and what conditions follow.
Trip generation for care homes and extra care housing
Care home traffic comes from staff, visitors, deliveries and visiting professionals rather than residents, and shift handover rather than the highway peak governs parking demand.
Emergency vehicle access in residential layouts
Fire appliance access is tested under Building Regulations requirement B5, long after planning permission is granted. The dimensions that drive a residential layout, and how to settle them before plots are sold.
Car club spaces as transport mitigation
A car club space is inexpensive mitigation and easy to deliver badly. Operator viability, traffic order risk and location accessibility decide whether it works.
Framework travel plans for phased schemes
A framework travel plan sets the objectives, measures and monitoring for a phased scheme and commits to a full plan per phase. Its value depends entirely on the triggers attached to it.
Travel plan bonds and penalty payments in an obligation
A travel plan bond holds money the council can draw on if modal share targets are missed. A penalty payment becomes due on failure. Both have to satisfy regulation 122, and the drafting matters more than the figure.
Delivery and servicing evidence for a change of use
Highways officers want to know which lorry arrives, where it stops, for how long and whether loading is legal at that hour. The Traffic Regulation Order decides most of it.
Reading a parking standard: maximum or minimum
A parking standard is useless until you know whether it is a ceiling or a floor. Here is where standards live, what counts as a space and how to evidence a departure.
What changes in transport evidence at 50 dwellings
Around fifty dwellings, or 2,500 square metres of floorspace, most highway authorities move from wanting a Transport Statement to wanting a full Transport Assessment. The thresholds are local, and the consequences for programme are not small.
Visibility splays and stopping sight distance
A new access stands or falls on the visibility splay. Here is how the x and y distances are set, why measured speeds matter more than the speed limit, and what to do when the splay crosses land you do not own.
Temporary traffic orders for construction works
A construction programme usually needs four separate highway permissions, each under a different power. What each one covers, how long it lasts and what happens when works overrun.
Highway drainage for a new rural access
Highway authorities treat run-off and material transfer onto a rural lane as a safety matter. The design comes down to the levels in the first few metres and the consent position for the roadside ditch.
Car club and travel voucher contributions
The money is simple. The on-street bay needs a traffic regulation order the developer cannot deliver, and the operator may never come forward.
Gated accesses and emergency service override
Three bodies have a view on a gated access: the highway authority, the fire service and the waste service. Design for all three before the driveway is drawn.
Blocking back and queue length at a junction
A capacity ratio tells you how hard an arm is working. Only the queue in metres, compared against measured storage, tells you whether the junction behind will block.
Which design vehicles to test in a swept path analysis
A tracking drawing is only as good as the vehicle chosen. The routine and occasional movements to test, and the parked car case most submissions omit.
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