SCROOBY ANGLING LAKES TRANSPORT STATEMENT SCROOBY ANGLING LAKES TRANSPORT STATEMENT 11 January 2013 Our Ref: BRB/PP/sb/JNY7749-01D RPS 20 Milton Park Abingdon Oxon OX14 4SH Tel: 01235 432190 Fax: 01235 834698 Email: [email protected] rpsgroup.com QUALITY MANAGEMENT Prepared by: Pauline Pettitt Authorised by: Bruce Bamber Date: 11 January 2013 Project Number/Document BRB/PP/sb/JNY7749-01D Reference: COPYRIGHT © RPS The material presented in this report is confidential. This report has been prepared for the exclusive use of Rotherham Sand and Gravel Company Ltd and shall not be distributed or made available to any other company or person without the knowledge and written consent of RPS. rpsgroup.com CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................... 4 2 EXISTING TRANSPORT SITUATION .................................................................................................... 5 3 SITE USE AND ACCESS ..................................................................................................................... 10 4 POLICY APPRAISAL ........................................................................................................................... 13 5 TRAFFIC GROWTH AND COMMITTED DEVELOPMENTS ............................................................... 15 6 TRIP GENERATION AND IMPACTS – MATERIALS EXCAVATION ................................................. 16 7 TRIP GENERATION AND IMPACT – ANGLING LAKES.................................................................... 22 8 SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................ 24 TABLES Table 2.1. Existing Traffic Flows on A638 Table 2.2. Traffic Speeds on A638 Table 2.3: Bus Service Summary Table 6.1: TRICS Quarry Sites: Total Trip Generation Table 6.2: TRICS Quarry Sites: HGV Trip Generation Table 6.3: Total Trip Generation (Average TRICS Quarry rates) Table 6.4: HGV Trip Generation (Average TRICS Quarry rates) Table 6.5: Total Trip Generation (Maximum TRICS Quarry rates) Table 6.6: HGV Trip Generation (Maximum TRICS Quarry rates) Table 6.7. Percentage Impact on A638 (Maximum TRICS Quarry Trip Generation) Table 7.1: Car Trips to Angling Lakes Table 7.2: Impact of Additional Angling Trips on A638 FIGURES Figure 1 - Location Plan Figure 2 - Personal Injury Accident Locations APPENDICES APPENDIX A – ATC DATA APPENDIX B – BUS SERVICES APPENDIX C – PIA DATA APPENDIX D – TRICS DATA rpsgroup.com 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 RPS Transport has been commissioned to produce a Transport Statement in support of a planning application for the development of additional angling lakes at Lodge Farm, Scrooby Top, Doncaster. This will entail two elements: the extraction of material including sand and gravels and the subsequent operation of the angling lake development. 1.2 A description of the site is contained within Section 3 of this report. In brief, there are already angling lakes on the south eastern part of the site, accessed by a track shared with the adjacent Lodge Farm. A second access to the north is a purpose-made and permitted roadway which has already been used for the haulage of extracted minerals under a previous operation which is now complete. The planning reference for the permitted haul road is 1/42/10/00011. Both parts of the site are accessed from the A638 Great North Road. 1.3 A consolidated permission has already been granted under 1/42/99/1 for mineral extraction via the haulage road from Scrooby North Quarry, a site further north. A further consolidated permission 1/42/98/7 allows for the extraction of mineral (Stage 2) from land to the north of the present application site. Those workings will also in due course rely upon this means of access. The minerals workings will only take place after the development of the angling lakes It is now intended that the angling lake be excavated before further work commences on Stage 2 of the site for which permission has been granted. These two operations will therefore be sequential rather than concurrent. This statement relates purely to the proposed angling lakes and associated excavation of materials comprising sand and gravels.. 1.4 The site is located within Nottinghamshire and the scope of this statement has therefore been agreed with Nottinghamshire County Council. The planning authority is Nottinghamshire County Council Council. 1.5 This report details the transport issues and the potential transport impact of the development proposal. The remainder of the report is divided into the following sections: . Section 2: Existing Transport Situation . Section 3: Site Use and Access . Section 4: Policy Appraisal . Section 5: Traffic Growth and Committed Developments . Section 5: Trip Generation and Impacts . Section 6: Trip Generations and Impacts – Materials Excavation . Section 7: Trip Generation and Impact – Angling Lake . Section 8: Summary 1.6 The TS has been produced in accordance with the Department for Transports (DfT) Guidance on Transport Assessment (2007). 1.7 The report concludes that the site excavation and spoil removal phase can be completed using the existing northern site access without an adverse impact on the local highway network and no impact on the Strategic Road Network and that the traffic generated by the additional angling lakes will subsequently be accommodated by the existing southern site access, again with no adverse impact on the local highway network. 4 rpsgroup.com 2 EXISTING TRANSPORT SITUATION Location and Surroundings 2.1 The site is located off the A638 Great North Road, south of Scrooby, located between the settlements of Bawtry and Ranskill. The site is situated approximately 18 kilometres to the south east of Doncaster and 4 kilometres south of the county boundary. The location of the site is shown within Figure 1. 2.2 There are two access points to the site, the two approximately 400m apart, which are used for different purposes. The southern access, adjacent to Lodge Farm, provides access to existing angling lakes and will also provide access to the proposed additional lakes once completed. The northern access will be used for the carriage of excavation spoil from the site during the construction phase, which will take approximately three years. For the purposes of this report, these accesses will be referred to as the Southern access and the Northern access respectively. 2.3 Scrooby Top is a small rural settlement. The land use is mainly agricultural, with Lodge Farm and the associated application site to the east of the A638, which runs from north to south in the immediate vicinity. Scrooby Top Quarry is accessed to the west of the A638 between the two accesses to the application site. Highway Network 2.4 The A638 in the vicinity of the site is a single carriageway with a derestricted speed limit. The road is subject to minor bends. There is a narrow footway on the eastern side, separated from the carriageway by a narrow grass verge. There is no footway on the western side of the road and there is no street lighting. The A638 is the responsibility of Nottinghamshire County Council and there are no HGV restrictions. 2.5 To the south, the A638 continues to Ranskill, where it enters a 30mph zone some 700 metres from the site, and passes through the town of Retford, before accessing the A1 trunk road. To the north, the A638 passes through Scrooby, where there is a 40mph speed limit. Approximately 3 kilometres north of the site it merges with the A614 and passes through Bawtry. This route provides access to Doncaster, the A1(M) and the M18. 2.6 Some 70 metres south of the Southern Access, Serlby Road joins the A638 at a priority junction. This is a minor road which accesses the Serlby Park golf course and also provides a through route to Harworth and an alternative route to the A1(M)/M18. Traffic Flows and Speeds 2.7 Traffic flows and speeds have been obtained on the A638 Great North Road between the two site access junctions. An automatic traffic counter (ATC) was placed on the A638 for a seven day period from Tuesday 20 November 2012 to Monday 26 November 2012 by an independent traffic survey company, Road Data Services Ltd. This recorded details of vehicle movements classified by vehicle type and time period. The directional and two-way hourly flows have been summarised for a weekday 24 hour period in Table 2.1 below. Two-way Saturday and Sunday flows are also 5 rpsgroup.com given for comparison; also the seven-day average flows. The full survey results have been reproduced within Appendix 1. Table 2.1. Existing Traffic Flows on A638 7-Day average Average Weekday Saturday Sunday Hour Begins Northbound Southbound Two-way Two-way Two-way Two-way Total HGV Total HGV Total HGV Total HGV Total HGV Total HGV 00:00 5 0 6 1 11 2 45 6 49 6 21 3 01:00 2 1 3 0 5 1 32 3 22 4 12 2 02:00 2 1 2 0 5 1 26 6 15 6 9 3 03:00 1 0 3 1 4 1 20 3 8 3 7 2 04:00 5 1 4 1 9 1 8 3 6 2 8 2 05:00 16 5 17 2 33 6 21 3 13 0 28 5 06:00 61 6 41 6 102 13 57 12 33 5 86 11 07:00 135 19 127 22 262 41 115 21 38 5 209 33 08:00 168 31 203 36 371 67 205 32 67 5 304 53 09:00 160 29 138 30 298 58 253 34 132 9 268 48 10:00 154 30 140 21 294 51 350 32 196 12 288 43 11:00 155 27 147 31 302 58 335 40 249 14 299 49 12:00 161 27 136 26 297 53 345 28 281 14 301 44 13:00 147 23 155 27 302 50 350 28 268 14 304 42 14:00 148 29 142 25 290 54 327 31 248 18 289 45 15:00 176 28 169 27 345 55 322 37 238 21 327 48 16:00 186 23 193 27 379 49 249 24 229 16 339 41 17:00 195 16 181 21 376 37 248 19 163 14 327 31 18:00 120 9 124 10 243 19 198 19 141 16 222 19 19:00 79 6 85 9 164 14 170 21 92 7 155 14 20:00 52 5 69 6 120 11 91 17 79 4 110 11 21:00 34 2 45 3 79 5 109 12 53 2 80 5 22:00 28 2 36 3 64 5 77 6 30 6 61 5 23:00 15 2 24 2 39 5 86 12 18 2 43 5 12H, 7-19 1,905 290 1,855 303 3,760 592 3,297 345 2,250 158 3,478 495 24H, 00-24 2,206 321 2,189 337 4,396 658 4,039 449 2,668 205 4,098 563 2.8 The above survey shows that the average two-way flows on the A638 are 370-380 vehicles during the busiest peak periods on a weekday, with flows being at 4,396 vehicles over a daily period.