Exhall Residents Association Main Modifications Representation
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Ref: Borough Plan Main Modifications Representation Form (For official use only) Name of the Local Plan to which this representation relates: Borough Plan Main Modifications Please return to Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council by 3rd December 2018 via: Email: planning .policy@nuneatonandbedworth .gov .uk Post: Planning Policy Consultation, Town Hall, Coton Road, NUNEATON, CV11 5AA This form has 2 parts: Part A – Personal details Part B – Your representation(s). Please fill in a separate sheet for each representation you wish to make. Part A 1. Personal details* 2. Agent’s details (if applicable) * If an agent is appointed, only the Title, Name and Organisation boxes in section 1. are required. Agent details should be completed in section 2. Title Mr First name Steven Last name Young Job title Chair (where applicable ) Organisation Exhall Residents Association (where applicable) House number (Redacted) Street (Redacted) Town (Redacted) Post code (Redacted) Telephone number (Redacted) Email address (Redacted) 1 3. Which of the following age brackets do you fall within? Up to 15 16-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+ Part B – Please use a separate sheet for each representation 4. Name or Organisation Exhall Residents Association 5. To which main modification does this representation relate? MMC reference MMC28 6. Do you consider the Borough Plan is: 6.(1) Legally compliant Yes No x 6.(2) Sound Yes No x Please mark with an ‘X’ as appropriate 7. Please give details of why you consider the main modifications are not legally compliant or are unsound. Please be as precise as possible. If you wish to support the legal compliance or soundness of the main modifications, please also use this box to set out your comments. The main modification to widen School Lane to allow HGV traffic to pass freely and use the lane as a main access to the proposed EMP 7 employment land would not alleviate the traffic problems that EMP7 would create. Exhall Residents Association have conducted our own traffic survey and modelled the traffic that EMP7 would create if it were to go ahead. Figures used for traffic generation are taken from the STA provided by WCC Highways. 2 We took our findings to Warwickshire County Council and a motion passed by the community overview and scrutinies committee, by unanimous vote, that WCC Highways would look again at the advice given to NBBC in the light of the new evidence provided by our report. This decision would cast doubt on whether emp7 would be deliverable in its present state. The action to be taken by WCC was reported in the Nuneaton Evening Telegraph on the 27 th November 2018 the full report is available online. The motion passed also said that NBBC would be notified by letter that WCC Highways would be looking at their advice on School lane again. The report produced by Exhall Residents Association shows that the extra traffic would overwhelm the busy Bayton Road/ Coventry Road/ School Lane/ Blackhorse Road junction system. School Lane as can be seen from the survey figures is, during the morning peak, the second busiest contributor to the junction system and already suffers from queues that easily tail back to Bruce Road. It is our suggestion that the queues are mainly formed by traffic wishing to turn right from School Lane towards Coventry. The bottle neck formed already overwhelms the junction and is exacerbated whenever a HGV tries to make this manoeuvre. From observations it would appear that only 3 cars can safely make the right turn during the green light period due to traffic either coming straight on from Bayton Road or that the exit route along Coventry Road is already filled. WCC have put in place plans to mitigate this traffic by adding an extra southern lane on Coventry Road between its junctions with Bayton Road and Black Horse Road. The mitigation works would not start until 2031 after EMP7 would according to the STA be at full capacity. This would mean that not only would the local network have to cope with road infrastructure works but also the added traffic from a fully operational employment site. Terra Strategic have suggested in their Statement of common ground with NBBC on HSG12 OTH/33.1 - Transport Statement of Common Ground between Terra Strategic and WCC, Statement and Appendix A-I (February 2018 - Highways Authority ) appendix A Transport Statement of common ground between Entran Limited on behalf of Terra Strategic and Warwickshire County Council(highway authority),section 6.22. “It should be noted that LinSig can only model optimised fixed time and does not include the additional delay savings which would be introduced through a traffic responsive SCOOT-UTC system which can be of the order of 13%. Therefore the results shown in the modelling should be a robust indicator of likely junction performance.” This approach would invariably link all of the junction and thus any generated traffic from development in the area that would contribute to the junction system of Bayton Road/ School Lane/ Coventry Road and Black Horse Road/ Coventry Road. Due to the nature of SCOOT it would not be possible to look at each contributing site individually as one input into the system would have an impact on all the others. Our traffic analysis using real figures, not desktop estimates, proves that the STA figures would add far more than 13% to the system from HSG12 and 3 thus would have an impact on traffic flows feeding into the system From EMP7. The Data obtained from our survey also shows increases eastbound on School Lane from EMP7, to be far in excess of the 13% figure quoted and thus would not be accommodated by using the SCOOT traffic system. We have included a copy of the full report below the data sets gathered and the STA figures used in the report are contained within the appendixes. All data sets can be supplied in excel format on request. 4 Exhall Residents Association Traffic analysis and modelling report on the road junction system of Coventry Road, Bayton Road, School Lane, Black Horse Road and Longford Road. 12 th November 2018 Prepared and published by: Exhall Residents Association 5 Traffic analysis and modelling report on the road junction system of Coventry Road, Bayton Road, School Lane, Black Horse Road and Longford Road. 1. Background 1.1 Coventry Road is a main commuter road between the town of Bedworth and City of Coventry carrying local traffic as well as through traffic between the two, and serving as a link to Junction 3 of the M6 motorway. The industrial area of Bayton Road forms a cross roads with Coventry Road and School Lane. Within 100 meters Coventry Road intersects with Black Horse Road. 1.2 School Lane is semi-rural in character and forms a busy link for the areas to the south west of Bedworth, Ash Green and Keresley for traffic accessing the motorway network and the A444 Trunk road. It is also, as can be seen from the traffic data, an important commuter route that carries as much traffic as Coventry Road. 1.3 Black Horse Road is one of two possible access roads to the village of Hawkesbury, it also forms an important route for commuters using it to travel to areas in the North east of Coventry. Map showing the area covered by the survey and the relative posi tions of the housing and employment developments EMP7 HSG 6 HSG12 EMP6 fig 1. 2. Purpose of report 2.1 Nuneaton and Bedworth borough plan has identified sites that would affect the junction system. Warwickshire County Council have been consulted on road infrastructure and produced the Strategic Transport Assessment(STA) which has been accepted into the Borough Plan 6 Examination Library. It was felt that there was little understanding of what the effects of the traffic generation figures, taken from the STA would have on the junction system and that the only way it could be assessed, would be to take a traffic survey of existing traffic. Once this was completed the STA figures could then be modelled onto the existing traffic and an accurate estimate of future levels could be calculated. 3. list of proposed sites in the borough plan that would have a direct effect on the junction system. EMP7 Church Lane/Bowling Green Lane EMP6 Longford Road HSG6 School Lane HSG12 Hawkesbury Golf Course 4. Method used to gather traffic data 4.1 The monitoring took place on consecutive Wednesdays as this was thought to be a typical working day and would avoid any peaks due to start or end of week 4.2 Monitoring was conducted between 7.30am and 9.30am for the morning peak on the 10 th October 4.3 Monitoring was conducted between 3.30pm and 5.30pm for the afternoon peak on the 17 th October 7 4.4 Monitoring of traffic was conducted at the locations shown on the map (fig 2) N Fig 2. Map showing positions of stations monitored. 8 4.4 Data was separated into 7 modes of transport. Bicycle Motor Cycle Car Van Truck Articulated Truck Emergency service Vehicle 4.5 Data was collected over a 2 hour period split into 15 minute segments. Traffic was counted manually using pre printed tally sheets, with one person being responsible for one station. 5. Results 5.1 All tables of results for AM peak traffic survey are in appendix 1 5.2 All tables of results for PM peak traffic survey are in appendix 2 5.3 Graph showing Total traffic entering junction system during AM period.