Transport, Highways and Parking – Page 6
Transport assessments and statements, travel plans, access, parking surveys and construction traffic.
Transport, Highways and Parking articles – page 6
224 articlesNetting off an existing use in trip generation
An existing use credit only survives if the lawful use is still extant. Here is the evidence councils expect, how to match the survey periods on both sides of the subtraction, and where highway officers refuse a credit.
Public rights of way affected by development
Planning permission does not authorise obstructing a footpath. The definitive map, section 257 orders, objection risk and how long the process really takes.
Travel plan monitoring surveys and remedies
Most travel plans fail at monitoring because the survey cannot be compared with the baseline. Survey design, response rates, remedies and closing out.
What Active Travel England looks for in an application
Active Travel England has been a statutory consultee since June 2023. What triggers the consultation, what the assessment scores and how to respond.
Cycle parking: quantity, type and position on a scheme
Meeting the number is the easy part. How stand spacing, store position, cargo cycle space and access routes decide whether cycle parking is accepted.
Getting access onto a classified or trunk road approved
A new access engages the local highway authority, the strategic network operator, or both. What each can do, what evidence they want, and how long it takes.
Section 278 agreements: scope, cost and timing
The agreement that lets a developer build into an existing public highway. What it covers, how technical approval works, what it costs and why it sets the start date.
Running a parking stress survey that stands up
Parking stress is measured overnight, on a defined beat, using a recognised method. Here is how to set the survey up, calculate capacity and use the result for a car free scheme.
Writing a travel plan a council will actually monitor
Travel plans fail when nobody is named, funded or obliged to run them. Here is how to set the baseline, write testable targets and draft the remedial mechanism into the obligation.
Justifying trip rates from a national survey database
Trip rate site selection decides the answer, so highway authorities review the filters rather than the arithmetic. Here is the sequence to apply and how to present it so it can be checked.
Transport statement or transport assessment: the thresholds
National guidance sets no numerical threshold for a transport assessment. Here are the figures authorities apply in practice, and how to fix the scope in writing before commissioning anything.
Construction worker parking and its effect on neighbours
Worker parking is the construction issue residents notice most, and the one most often left to the contractor. Here is how to plan and condition it properly.
Refuse collection: drag distances and layout geometry
Waste objections are hard to argue away because the council has to deliver the service weekly for decades. Here is the geometry that keeps a layout collectable.
Bus stop relocation and public transport contributions
Public transport contributions are often applied by formula rather than evidence. Here is how the statutory tests apply to bus stop works and service subsidy, and where to negotiate.
Abnormal loads and access for large components
Once a component exceeds construction and use limits, the route has to be surveyed, structure owners notified and the movement tied down by condition. Here is how that affects a planning application.
Transport evidence for a rural site with no bus service
National policy accepts that opportunities to travel sustainably differ between town and country. Making that argument still takes measured evidence rather than an assertion about rural life.
School travel plans and the evidence councils expect
A school application attracts more highway objection than almost anything else of its size. The travel plan is where the case is won, and its baseline survey is the part most often left thin.
Using collision data in a transport assessment
Collision analysis is the part of a transport assessment read most closely by objectors. Classify by mechanism rather than by location, and state the limitations.
The severe test: when highway impact justifies refusal
Capacity objections are qualified by the word severe. Safety objections are not. Building a highway case means keeping the two apart and making the residual impact concrete.
Cycle parking design to LTN 1/20 on a residential scheme
Cycle stores are judged on geometry before numbers. Stand spacing, aisle width, the door threshold and the route from the street matter more than the headline space count.
Securing and monitoring a travel plan through section 106
Conditions cannot require payments, so travel plan fees, coordinators and bonds move into the section 106 agreement. The remedial measures menu matters more than the bond figure.
Temporary road closures and street works during construction
A temporary road closure is a highways consent, not a planning one, and a full closure can take three months to advertise. Here is the consent map and the lead times.
Accessible and motorcycle parking in a new scheme
A designated bay needs 4.8m by 6.0m including transfer zones, not a painted symbol. How to size, place and evidence accessible and motorcycle parking.
Private drive geometry: gradients, widths and turning
Private drives are not built to adoptable standards, but width, gradient and turning still decide whether the highway authority objects. The figures that usually work.
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