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Hayling Island Transport Assessment | Addendum | January 2020 1 Hayling Island Transport Assessment Addendum January 2020 Issue level 1.01 Hayling Island Transport Assessment | Addendum | January 2020 Hayling Island Transport Assessment Addendum January 2020 The Hayling Island Transport Assessment Addendum has been prepared by Havant Borough Council with traffic modelling from Systra. Any queries about the report should be sent to: Email [email protected] Telephone 023 9244 6539 Address: Havant Borough Council Public Service Plaza Civic Centre Road Havant PO9 2AX Version Date 0.3 06/09/2019 For initial peer review SM 0.4 22/10/2019 For peer review SM DH 0.5 25/10/2019 Finalisation SM 0.6 31/10/2019 Finalisation SM JB 0.7 07/11/2019 HIIG review SM JB 0.8 07/01/2020 HCC and HIIG comments SM DH 1.01 29/01/2020 Final for issue SM DH Page | 1 Hayling Island Transport Assessment | Addendum | January 2020 Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................. 4 GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................. 6 TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS .................................................................................................... 7 2. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND...................................................................................... 8 3. THE ADDENDUM ...................................................................................................................... 11 Status of this document ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Reason for the Addendum ........................................................................................................................................... 11 What has changed in this Addendum? ....................................................................................................................... 12 What hasn’t changed in this Addendum? .................................................................................................................. 13 4. TRAFFIC MODELLING RESULTS ........................................................................................... 14 Summary: proposed interventions ............................................................................................................................. 14 ‘Do Something’ Interventions and Mitigation ............................................................................................................. 19 Modelling Results: Do Something 2036 ...................................................................................................................... 36 Model Run Results Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 43 Further Work .................................................................................................................................................................. 43 5. LANGSTONE ROUNDABOUT .................................................................................................. 45 6. OTHER TRANSPORT NETWORK IMPROVEMENTS AND INTERVENTIONS .................... 49 Bus Network .................................................................................................................................................................. 49 Ferry ............................................................................................................................................................................... 51 Walking and Cycling Network ...................................................................................................................................... 52 Smarter Choices ‘Soft Measures’ ................................................................................................................................ 59 Demand Management ‘Hard Measures’ ...................................................................................................................... 60 7. THE HAYLING BILLY TRAIL .................................................................................................... 65 History ............................................................................................................................................................................ 65 Page | 2 Hayling Island Transport Assessment | Addendum | January 2020 Status ............................................................................................................................................................................. 66 Transport Role ............................................................................................................................................................... 67 Future Opportunities .................................................................................................................................................... 70 Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................ 73 8. SOCIETAL IMPACTS OF MITIGATION .................................................................................... 75 9. FUNDING AND DELIVERY ....................................................................................................... 77 10. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 79 APPENDIX A: MODELLING RESULTS FOR JOURNEY TIME ROUTES AND STRATEGIC ROUTES ........................................................................................................................................ 81 Table A1: Journey time routes 1 – 6 and X ................................................................................................................. 83 Table A2: Journey time routes 1 – 6 and X ................................................................................................................. 84 Table A3: Strategic journey time routes 1X, 2X and 3X ............................................................................................ 85 Table A4: Strategic journey time routes 1X, 2X and 3X ............................................................................................ 86 Table A5: Journey time routes 1 – 6 and X ................................................................................................................. 87 Table A6: Journey time routes 1 – 6 and X ................................................................................................................. 88 Table A7: Strategic journey time routes 1X, 2X and 3X ............................................................................................ 89 Table A8: Strategic journey time routes 1X, 2X and 3X ............................................................................................ 90 Table A9: Comparison of 2018 and 2036 journey times on strategic journey time routes 1, 2 and 3 .................. 91 APPENDIX B: SYSTRA - HAYLING ISLAND MITIGATION TESTING REPORT (NOVEMBER 2019) .............................................................................................................................................. 92 APPENDIX C: HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL LINSIG TESTING ........................................... 93 APPENDIX D: REFERENCE TRAFFIC TURNING COUNTS ....................................................... 94 APPENDIX E: SOCIETAL EFFECTS MATRIX ............................................................................. 98 Maps included in this document are © Crown copyright and database rights Ordnance Survey License number 100019217 (2020), © Google Maps 2020 and © Open StreetMap contributors 2020 Page | 3 Hayling Island Transport Assessment | Addendum | January 2020 1. Executive Summary 1.1 The Havant Borough Local Plan sets out a vision and a framework for the future development, growth and prosperity of the Borough. The Local Plan process commenced with the adoption of the draft Local Plan Housing Statement, in December 2016. Further evidence has been obtained and consultation undertaken to prepare the Local Plan. The Local Plan aims to deliver about 10,000 new homes, and some 96,000 sqm of new employment floor space in the Borough, by 2036, including development on Hayling Island. 1.2 Crucial to ensuring that the Local Plan’s proposals constitute sustainable development, is the timely provision of infrastructure, to support the amount of development proposed in various locations across the Borough. Part of the Local Plan evidence base is provided by the Mainland Transport Assessment and Hayling Island Transport Assessment. They both review the existing traffic and transport networks, examine future demand and identify required mitigation and improvements to accommodate development. 1.3 The original Hayling Island Transport Assessment (hereafter referred to as ‘HITA’) dated January 20191 reviewed through modelling the impact of additional development traffic on the local highway network and considered means of mitigating its effect through the use of packages of interventions including inter alia changes to highway layouts, public transport improvements, parking controls, and demand management. The HITA concluded that development could be accommodated on the mitigated