Transport, Highways and Parking – Page 9

Transport evidence for a change of use with no new floorspace

A change of use builds nothing, so the transport argument is comparative. Set the lawful baseline, show the net change, and deal with the peak periods that differ.

Servicing and deliveries for a small commercial unit

Deliveries, refuse and loading decide more small commercial applications than trip generation does. Here is the evidence a highway officer actually reads.

Cycle parking standards and validation checks

Cycle parking is set locally, not nationally, and applications are returned at validation for showing a rack symbol with no dimensions, no access route and no security.

Refused on highway safety: rebuilding the case

A highway safety refusal usually rests on one measurable thing. Find it in the consultation response, measure it properly, and the second application often succeeds.

Construction traffic management plans that get approved

A CTMP is discharged by the highway authority, not the planning officer, and it is refused for the same handful of omissions every time.

Section 38 adoption of estate roads and commuted sums

Adoption is discretionary and the specification is the authority's. Where technical approval stalls, what a bond costs, and which design decisions carry a maintenance price.

Dropped kerb consent and the section 184 application

Two consents, two teams. When Class B of Part 2 covers the access, when a classified road makes it an application, and what the highway authority measures before it says yes.

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Choosing and defending TRICS trip rates

Highway officers read the appendix first. Land use categories, the filters that move the rate, rank order graphs, existing use credit and the scoping note that prevents the argument.

Car-free and permit-free development in a parking zone

Permit-free means occupiers cannot apply for an on-street parking permit. The obligation only bites where a controlled parking zone exists and the council can enforce eligibility.

Collision data for planning: getting it and using it well

Five years of clean records do not show that an access is safe. What collision data can prove, how to request it from the highway authority, and how to present it without overclaiming.

Answering a highway objection during determination

Highway objections divide into holding, evidential and geometric, and each needs a different answer. Speed and collision data resolve most assertions, and agreed conditions resolve the rest.

Turning heads and access geometry on small housing sites

Approved Document B requires a turning facility on any dead-end access over 20 metres, and the refuse freighter usually sets the geometry. How to size a head that survives consultation.

Access onto a classified road: what the authority tests

There is no permitted development route for a new access onto a classified road. The highway authority tests measured speed, visibility, and whether every vehicle can leave in forward gear.

Trip generation for change of use: justifying no uplift

The baseline for a change of use is the lawful existing use, not what is happening on site today. Here is how to build and present the net trip comparison.

Transport for London consultation and the TLRN

Transport for London is consulted as highway authority for red routes, as adviser on referable schemes and as asset protector near its infrastructure. Here is how each works.

Electric vehicle charging requirements in planning

Approved Document S sets charge point provision for new dwellings and car parks. Here is where planning policy adds to it, and why the supply rather than the socket is the constraint.

Servicing and delivery arrangements for a town centre unit

Highway officers want to know where the delivery vehicle stops, how long it stands and what it blocks. Here is how to evidence servicing for a unit with no yard.

Parking stress calculations and how to present them

A parking stress figure is only as good as the arithmetic behind it. Here is how to calculate occupancy street by street, add the development's own demand, sensitivity test the result and present it so it can be rebuilt.

Parking surveys under the Lambeth methodology

A parking stress survey measures how full the kerbside already is before a conversion adds to it. Here is how the catchment, the two survey nights and the capacity measurement work, and how to answer the usual criticisms.

National Highways consultation on the strategic road network

National Highways is a statutory consultee where development affects motorways and trunk roads, and it can trigger a direction that stops the council granting permission. Here is what it looks at and how to scope the evidence.

Active Travel England: when it is consulted and what it asks

Active Travel England is a statutory consultee on major applications at 150 dwellings, 7,500 square metres or 5 hectares. Here is what its review examines and how to design the answers into the submission.

Section 38 adoption agreements for new estate roads

A section 38 agreement under the Highways Act 1980 turns a new estate road into highway maintainable at public expense. Here is what the highway authority checks, what the bond and commuted sums cover, and how adoption fits the build programme.

Section 278 agreements: programme, bond and approval

Planning permission does not let you touch the public highway. A section 278 agreement does, and its technical approval process runs to its own timetable and its own fees.

Travel Plan Statement or full Travel Plan: what triggers each

Four documents share the name travel plan and they are not interchangeable. The one your scheme needs depends on size, on whether the occupier is known, and on what the highway authority asks for.