These schemes include the delivery of up to 80 dwellings. To support such schemes through the planning process, we typically produce an initial Access Appraisal, scope our input with the Local Highway Authority, design a suitable site access, and produce a Transport Statement and Travel Plan. If the application is for detailed approval, we review the internal road layout via swept path analysis to ensure it complies with the Local Highway Authority’s design standards for road/footpath width, dimensions of turning heads, and pedestrian/vehicular visibility splays.
Sustainable access to these types of developments is a key factor in gaining planning permission. The Transport Statement for such schemes also considers the ability to access the development proposals by sustainable modes of transport. This is typically undertaken via the production of walking, cycling, and bus journey time isochrones using GIS software.
If any shortfalls in sustainable access are identified, we are required to suggest improvements to these sustainable connections to the site. This involves the identification of improvements to footways, upgrades of Public Rights of Way, the identification/provision of new sections of cycle infrastructure, and negotiations with local public transport operators as to how to improve bus access to the site. The level of improvements does, however, need to be commensurate with the size of the scheme and be Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) compliant.
The following is a selection of smaller residential projects that Prime has been involved with:
- Huyton Lane, Huyton, Merseyside | 60 dwellings
- Stoke Road, Hoo St Werburgh, Medway | 80 dwellings
- Green Lane, Cadishead, Salford | 49 dwellings
- Fleet Lane, St. Helens | 54 dwellings
- Victoria Road, Littlestone, Kent | 80 dwellings
- Otterham Quay Lane, Rainham, Kent | 74 dwellings
- Cherry Tree Grove, Wigan | 12 dwellings
- Lightfoot Lane, Preston, Lancashire | 49 dwellings
- Station Road, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire | 55 dwellings
- Sandy Lane, Liverpool | 53 dwellings
- Holly Lodge Drive, Northampton | 65 dwellings
- Winifred Lane, Aughton, Lancashire | circa 70-80 dwellings
- Barbers Lane, Martley, Worcestershire | 80 dwellings
- Naas Lane, Quedgeley, Gloucestershire | 54 dwellings
- Preston New Road, Fylde, Lancashire | 41 dwellings
- Birchfield Road, Wimborne, Dorset | 74 dwellings