Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 14318
Received: 06/04/2016
Respondent: Mr Ian Blackburn
The evidence to support the Plan on highway grounds is very much lacking with the PBA Highway Modeling Report only dealing with the effects of the various growth options on junction capacity.
Clearly any growth will have an effect on an already busy road network and the work should analyze impacts that the various options will bring on flows, speeds, queuing, accidents and pollution. This is particularly true as all of the options have a degree of concentrated growth but particularly option 1
Concentrated growth will bring very significant local effects and these need to be presented to inform whether large strategic options are the right way forward and if so where these should be located.
Studying traffic more generally will also help to inform other policies, the CIL scheme and master plans.
See attached.