Senior Living Urban (Epsom) Ltd Guild Living Care Community Epsom Hospital Woodcote Green Road
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SENIOR LIVING URBAN (EPSOM) LTD GUILD LIVING CARE COMMUNITY EPSOM HOSPITAL WOODCOTE GREEN ROAD TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT DECEMBER 2019 SENIOR LIVING URBAN (EPSOM) LTD GUILD LIVING CARE COMMUNITY EPSOM HOSPITAL WOODCOTE GREEN ROAD TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT DECEMBER 2019 Project Code: B/GLEpsom.1 Prepared by: RG Approved by: RG Issue Date: December 2019 Status: Final Mayer Brown Limited, Lion House, Oriental Road, Woking, Surrey GU22 8AR Telephone 01483 750508 Fax 01483 750437 [email protected] www.mayerbrown.co.uk Senior Living Urban (Epsom) Ltd Guild Living Care Community Epsom Hospital Woodcote Green Road Transport Assessment List of Contents Sections 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 1 2 Existing Site Context & Accessibility ................................................................... 2 3 Development Proposals .................................................................................... 15 4 Planning Policy Background ............................................................................. 20 5 Traffic Flows & Trip Generation ........................................................................ 28 6 Traffic Impact .................................................................................................... 35 7 Parking Assessment ......................................................................................... 40 8 Accident Analysis .............................................................................................. 47 9 Mitigation .......................................................................................................... 50 10 Summary & Conclusions................................................................................... 51 Figures Figure 2.1: Site Location .............................................................................................. 2 Figure 2.2: Wider Highway Network ............................................................................. 3 Figure 2.3: Footways and Zebra Crossing on Woodcote Green Road ........................ 4 Figure 2.4: Walk Isochrones from Site ......................................................................... 5 Figure 2.4: Cycle Isochrones from Site ........................................................................ 6 Figure 2.5: Bus Stop on Woodcote Green Road .......................................................... 7 Figure 2.6: Bus Stop on Dorking Road ........................................................................ 8 Figure 2.7: Extract from Surrey County Bus Network Map Extract .............................. 9 Figure 2.8: Extract of Southern Rail Network Map ..................................................... 11 Figure 3.1: Access Arrangements and Internal Movements ...................................... 17 Figure 5.1: Hospital Retail Visitor Survey Results ...................................................... 32 Figure 7.1: Predicted APS Parking Accumulation ...................................................... 41 Figure 7.2: Predicted Surface Level Parking Accumulation ....................................... 42 Figure 8.1: Accident Location Plan ............................................................................ 47 Tables Table 2.1: Bus Service Frequency ............................................................................. 10 Table 2.2: Rail Service Frequency from Epsom Railway Station ............................... 12 Table 2.3: List of Amenities within 500m of the Site .................................................. 13 Table 2.4: Distances to Compliant Transport Nodes ................................................. 14 Table 3.1: Schedule of Accommodation .................................................................... 16 Table 5.1: NTM/TEMPRO Growth Factors ................................................................ 29 Table 5.3: Trip Rates – Retirement Flats ................................................................... 30 Table 5.4: Trip Rates – Assisted Living ...................................................................... 30 Table 5.5: Trip Rates – Nursery ................................................................................. 31 Table 5.6: Hospital Retail Visitor Survey Results ....................................................... 32 Table 5.7: Hospital Trips to be Removed and Re-assigned ....................................... 33 Table 5.8: Net Change in Trips .................................................................................. 33 Table 5.9: Predicted Multi-modal Trips ...................................................................... 34 Table 6.1: PICADY summary – Woodcote Green Road / Site Access ...................... 36 Table 6.2: PICADY Summary – A24 Dorking Road / Woodcote Side ........................ 37 Table 6.3: LinSig Summary – A24 Dorking Road / Woodcote Road .......................... 38 Table 6.4: LinSig Summary – A24 / Ashley Avenue .................................................. 39 Table 7.1: SCC Parking Standards ............................................................................ 40 Table 7.2: SCC EV Charging Standards .................................................................... 43 Table 7.3: Parking Survey Locations and Restrictions ............................................... 44 Table 7.4: Parking Survey Results - Tuesday 12th November 2019 at 10am ........... 44 Table 7.5: Parking Survey Results - Tuesday 12th November 2019 at 7pm ............. 45 Table 7.6: Parking Survey Results - Wednesday 13th November 2019 at 10am ...... 45 Table 7.7: Parking Survey Results - Wednesday 13th November 2019 at 7pm ........ 45 Table 8.1: Recorded Accidents by Year / Severity ..................................................... 48 Table 8.2: Recorded Accidents at Junctions .............................................................. 48 Table 8.3: Causation Factors ..................................................................................... 49 Table 8.4: Vulnerable Road Users ............................................................................. 49 Appendices Traffic Flow Diagrams APPENDIX A: Scoping Meeting Minutes APPENDIX B: Accessibility Index APPENDIX C: Site Layout Plan APPENDIX D: Swept Path Analysis APPENDIX E: Traffic Survey Data APPENDIX F: TRICS Output APPENDIX G: Trips & Parking Calculations APPENDIX H: Interview Survey Data APPENDIX I: ANPR Survey Data APPENDIX J: NTS Data APPENDIX K: PICADY Output APPENDIX L: LINSIG Output APPENDIX M: On-Street Parking Survey Data APPENDIX N: Accident Report Senior Living Urban (Epsom) Ltd Guild Living Care Community, Epsom Hospital Woodcote Green Road Transport Assessment 1 Introduction 1.1 Mayer Brown Ltd have been instructed by Senior Living Urban (Epsom) Ltd to provide highways and transport related assistance in support of a planning application for a new Later Living Community on land at Epsom General Hospital. 1.2 The proposed development comprises the demolition of existing hospital buildings (C2 land use) to provide a Later Living Community (C2 land use) including a coffee shop, restaurant and a nursery (D1 land use) that are open to use by visitors, staff, patients and visitors at the adjacent hospital and the general public (likely to only be residents of the adjacent residential properties). 1.3 Guild Living, who will be the operator of the proposed development, have the following principles/commitments for the operation/management of the site and relevant to this Transport Assessment: Only 40% of Guild Living Residences will be marketed/sold with parking; 80% of nursery spaces (children) would be allocated to NHS staff; Two Private Car Club vehicles will be provided on site for use by residents only; Two mini-buses for group trips/outings will also be provided on site; and 1.4 Following this introduction, Section 2 of this report provides details of the existing site and accessibility. The development proposals are described in Section 3 and relevant planning policy is reviewed in Section 4. An assessment of existing traffic flows and predicted trips is included at section 5, whilst the traffic impact of the proposals is assessed in Section 6. An assessment of the proposed parking levels is provided in Section 7 and a review of local collision data in Section 8. Finally, mitigation measures are detailed in Section 9 and the summary and conclusions are provided in Section 10. Scoping with Surrey County Council 1.5 A pre-application scoping meeting was held at County Hall in Kingston with Scott Dickson, Senior Transport Development Planning Officer at Surrey County Council (SCC), and Lita Ferguson, Transport Planning Assistant at SCC, on Friday 18th October 2019. This meeting, along with a Scoping Report issued in advance, were used to agree the format of this assessment and the scope of the associated traffic surveys. A copy of the agreed Scoping Meeting Minutes is attached to this report at Appendix A. Page 1 Senior Living Urban (Epsom) Ltd Guild Living Care Community, Epsom Hospital Woodcote Green Road Transport Assessment 2 Existing Site Context & Accessibility Site Location 2.1 The site is located approximately 1km south of Epsom Town Centre in the borough of Epsom & Ewell. The site is bordered by Woodcote Green Road to the south, Epsom General Hospital to the north and east and residential properties to the west. The surrounding area is mostly residential. 2.2 The site location is shown