Proposed Child Care Centre 79 & 81 Leach Highway, Willagee Transport Impact Statement

PREPARED FOR: Accord Property

April 2021

Document history and status

Date Author Revision Approved by Revision type approved Shaju Maharjan r01 B Bordbar 23/03/2021 Draft Shaju Maharjan r01a B Bordbar 01/04/2021 Final

File name: t20.311.sm.r01a

Author: Shaju Maharjan

Project manager: Behnam Bordbar

Client: Accord Property

Project: Cnr Leach Hwy & Webber St, Willagee

Document revision: r01a

Project number: t20.311

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 INTRODUCTION ...... 5

2.0 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT...... 7

3.0 VEHICLE ACCESS AND PARKING ...... 8

3.1 ACCESS ...... 8 3.2 PARKING PROVISION ...... 9 4.0 PROVISION FOR SERVICE VEHICLES ...... 10

5.0 HOURS OF OPERATION ...... 11

6.0 TRAFFIC VOLUMES ...... 12

6.1 EXISTING DEVELOPMENT TRIP GENERATION ...... 12 6.2 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT TRIP GENERATION ...... 12 6.3 TRAFFIC FLOW ...... 13 6.4 IMPACT ON SURROUNDING ROADS ...... 14 7.0 TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ON THE FRONTAGE STREETS ...... 16

8.0 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACCESS ...... 19

9.0 PEDESTRIAN ACCESS ...... 20

10.0 CYCLE ACCESS ...... 21

11.0 SITE SPECIFIC ISSUES ...... 22

12.0 SAFETY ISSUES ...... 23

13.0 CONCLUSIONS...... 24

APPENDIX A: PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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REPORT FIGURES

Figure 1: Location of the subject site ...... 6 Figure 2: MRS Map ...... 6 Figure 3: Location of existing crossovers ...... 8 Figure 4: Proposed development crossover ...... 9 Figure 5. Total traffic generated by the proposed development – Weekday AM, weekday PM peak hours and daily ...... 14 Figure 6: Westbound view along Leach Highway ...... 16 Figure 7: Eastbound view along Leach Highway ...... 16 Figure 8: Northbound view along Webber Street ...... 17 Figure 9: Southbound view along Webber Street ...... 17 Figure 10: Public transport services (Transperth Maps) ...... 19 Figure 11: Bike map (source: Department of Transport) ...... 21

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1.0 Introduction

This Transport Impact Statement (TIS) has been prepared by Transcore on behalf of Accord Property with regard to a proposed child care centre (CCC) to be located at 79 & 81 Leach Highway, Willagee, in the City of Melville.

The subject site is located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Leach Highway and Webber Street. The subject site is currently occupied by two residential dwellings. The vehicular accesses to the subject site are currently available via two existing crossovers on Leach Highway.

The subject site is bound by Leach Hwy to the north, Webber Street to the west and residential properties to the east and south as shown in Figure 1. The subject site is zoned Urban in Metropolitan Region Scheme (MRS) as shown in Figure 2.

The Transport Impact Assessment Guidelines (WAPC, Vol 4 – Individual Developments, August 2016) states: “A Transport Impact Statement is required for those developments that would be likely to generate moderate volumes of traffic1 and therefore would have a moderate overall impact on the surrounding land uses and transport networks”. Section 6.2 of Transcore’s report provides details of the estimated trip generation for the proposed development.

Accordingly, as the total peak hour vehicular trips are estimated to be less than 100 trips, a Transport Impact Statement is deemed appropriate for this development.

The key issues that are addressed in this report include the traffic generation and distribution of the proposed development, parking provision, access and egress and movement patterns.

1 Between 10 and 100 vehicular trips per hour

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Figure 1: Location of the subject site

Figure 2: MRS Map

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2.0 Proposed Development

The development proposal is for a child care centre to be located at 79 & 81 Leach Highway, Willagee in the City of Melville.

The proposed CCC is anticipated to accommodate up to 86 children with a total of 14 staff members.

Vehicle access and egress to the subject site is proposed via a single full movement crossover on Webber Street which leads directly to the car parking area, as detailed in Section 3.1 of this report.

The development plan shows that the car parking area of the proposed development would occupy the western portion of the subject site with a total of 17 car parking bays inclusive of an ACROD bay. A turn around bay is also provided at the north east corner of the car parking area.

The proposed parking area comprises of 11 single standard bays and 3 pairs of tandem bays (3x2 = 6 bays). Out of 17 car parking bays, 7 bays are allocated to staff including all 6 tandem bays and the balance will be used for visitors/parents during pick up and drop off activities.

Pedestrian access to the proposed development is available from the external footpath network on Leach Highway and Webber Street abutting the subject site.

A bin store area is proposed at the north west corner of the car parking area. The proposed development plan is provided in Appendix A.

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3.0 Vehicle Access and Parking

3.1 Access

Figure 3 shows the location of existing crossovers and Figure 4 shows the location of proposed development crossover. Currently, there are two crossovers (crossover 1 & crossover 2) servicing the subject site on Leach Highway which will be closed as part of the proposed development.

The access and egress arrangement to the subject site is proposed via a single full movement crossover on Webber Street to the west of the subject site as illustrated in Figure 4.

Webber Street Webber

Figure 3: Location of existing crossovers

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Proposed Crossover

Figure 4: Proposed development crossover

3.2 Parking Provision

The City of Melville Local Planning Policy 1.6 provides the parking requirements of the child care centre, which is:

One bay per 10 children plus; 0.5 bays per staff member; and, Drop-off and pick-up area to the satisfaction of the Council.

The child care centre has been designed to accommodate up to 86 children and 14 staff members. According to the City’s Policy, the proposed child care centre requires a parking provision of 16 car parking bays.

The proposed development provides a total of 17 on-site parking bays inclusive of an ACROD bay which meets and exceeds the requirement of the City’s policy.

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4.0 Provision for Service Vehicles

A bin store area is proposed at the north west corner of the car parking area as shown in the proposed development plan in Appendix A.

It is anticipated that the waste collection will take place on Webber Street with bins wheeled out from the bin store area on designated collection day. As advised by the operator, a private contractor will be assigned to undertake waste collection which will take place once per week growing to two as the centre reaches higher occupancy. The waste will be collected within normal business hours and 2X660L bins will be used for the centre; one for general waste and one for recycling.

It is also anticipated that the CCC will generate a small volume of service vehicle traffic primarily associated with deliveries for the child care centre. It is recommended that smaller vehicles such as vans should be used for deliveries. Delivery vehicle may park within the site for short periods of time for loading and unloading activities. These activities will occur during off-peak periods or when the centre is closed.

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5.0 Hours of Operation

The proposed child care centre is proposed to operate during weekdays between 6:30AM to 6:30PM Monday to Friday.

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6.0 Traffic Volumes

6.1 Existing Development Trip Generation

The subject site is currently occupied by two residential dwellings and for the purpose of this assessment area assumed to generate negligible traffic volumes.

6.2 Proposed Development Trip Generation

In order to establish an accurate traffic generation rate for the proposed child care centre, traffic count surveys undertaken by Transcore at similar centres in the Perth metropolitan area were sourced.

Discussions with the respective centre managers revealed that the peak drop-offs and pick-ups for each of these centres occur between the hours of 7:00AM–10:00AM and 3:00PM–6:00PM.

From the total number of children at each of the centres on the surveyed days, the following average generation rates were established for the morning and afternoon surveyed periods:

7:00AM–10:00AM: 1.58 trips per child (52% in / 48% out); and, 3:00PM–6:00PM: 1.67 trips per child (47% in / 53% out).

From this information, the traffic generation rate for the combined period of 7:00AM– 10:00AM and 3:00PM–6:00PM was calculated as 3.25 trips per child. To convert this figure to a daily generation rate, this figure was increased to 3.5 trips per child to account for any trips outside of the surveyed times. It was assumed that the daily in and out split for vehicle trips was 50/50.

Furthermore, the following peak hour generation rates were established from the surveys for the Child Care Centres:

AM peak hour: 8:00AM – 9:00AM: 0.75 trips per child (52% in / 48% out); and, PM peak hour: 4:30PM – 5:30PM: 0.49 trips per child (43% in/ 57% out);

Comparison of the six-hour generation rates and the peak hour generation rates confirms that the distribution of traffic from these centres is spread over the peak periods and that full concentration of traffic does not occur in the peak hour. The AM peak hour represents 47% of the 3-hour AM peak period traffic generation and the typical school PM and road network PM peak hours represent 36% and 29% of the 3-hour PM peak period traffic generation, respectively. As such, childcare centres operate quite differently to schools as their peak period is spread out.

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Accordingly, the following number of trips was estimated for the proposed child care centre, assuming a maximum scenario of 86 children being present (i.e., centre at full capacity):

AM peak hour: 65 trips generated (34 in / 31 out); PM peak hour: 43 trips generated (18 in / 25 out); and, Daily traffic generation: 301 trips generated (150 in / 151 out).

6.3 Traffic Flow

Driveway access to the child care centre is provided on Webber Street, so all of the development generated traffic would arrive/ depart to and from the site via Webber Street and then dissipate throughout the surrounding road network.

As with similar centres, an overwhelming majority of patrons would originate from within the local area with only a marginal number of patrons arriving from afar.

Hence, based on the general spatial distribution of existing and future residential developments in the immediate area, permeability of the local road network and the assumption that all traffic attracted to the proposed child care centre would arrive/ depart via Webber Street, the child care centre’s traffic distribution adopted for this analysis is as follows:

50% to/from the north of Webber Street; and, 50% to/from the south of Webber Street.

Figure 5 illustrates the trip generation and traffic distribution over the local road network for the proposed child care centre. The vehicles expected to access the site are likely to be private passenger cars with a portion of 4WD.

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15/12/75 17/9/75

17/9/75

16/13/76 Webber Street Webber

Figure 5. Total traffic generated by the proposed development – Weekday AM, weekday PM peak hours and daily

6.4 Impact on Surrounding Roads

The WAPC Transport Impact Assessment Guidelines (2016) provides guidance on the assessment of traffic impacts:

“As a general guide, an increase in traffic of less than 10 per cent of capacity would not normally be likely to have a material impact on any particular section of road but increases over 10 per cent may. All sections of road with an increase greater than 10 per cent of capacity should therefore be included in the analysis. For ease of assessment, an increase of 100 vehicles per hour for any lane can be considered as equating to around 10 per cent of capacity. Therefore, any section of road where development traffic would increase flows by more than 100 vehicles per hour for any lane should be included in the analysis.”

It is clear that the traffic increase from the proposed child care centre development would be significantly less than the critical threshold (100vph per lane). As detailed in Section 6.2, the proposed development will not increase traffic on any lanes on the

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7.0 Traffic Management on the Frontage Streets

Leach Highway, north of the subject site, is a dual carriageway six lane road (3 lanes each way) with central landscape median as shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7. It features pedestrian paths on both sides of the road.

Leach Highway is classified as a Primary Distributor in the Main Roads WA Functional Road Hierarchy and operates under the posted speed limit of 70km/h. It is covered by a Primary Regional Roads (PRR) reservation in the MRS and as such is under care and control of Main Roads WA.

Figure 6: Westbound view along Leach Highway

Figure 7: Eastbound view along Leach Highway

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According to the traffic data obtained from the Main Road website, Leach Highway (east of Stock Road) carried 39,403 vehicles per day (vpd) in 2020/21. The AM peak and PM peak were recorded between 7:45AM to 8:45AM and 4:30PM to 5:30PM with a total of 2,941vph and 3,088vph respectively.

Webber Street, west of the subject site, is constructed as a single carriageway two- lane road as shown in Figure 8 and Figure 9. Pedestrian paths are provided along eastern side of the road between Leach Highway & Arkwell Street and along western side of this road between Arkwell Street & Boon Street.

Figure 8: Northbound view along Webber Street

Figure 9: Southbound view along Webber Street

Webber Street is classified as an Access Road in the Main Roads WA Functional Road Hierarchy and operates under the default built up speed limit of 50km/h. A short section of this road within the vicinity of the subject site is covered by a Primary Regional Roads (PRR) reservation in the MRS (refer Figure 2).

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Webber Street forms T-intersection with Leach Highway to the north and Boom Street to the south.

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8.0 Public Transport Access

Public transport services in the vicinity of the subject site are illustrated in Figure 10. The subject site is well served by bus route 502 which operates along Leach Highway fronting the subject site. Bus route 502 runs between Fremantle Station to Bull Creek Station.

The closest bus stop is located on Leach Highway approximately 40m walking distance to the east of the subject site which is accessible via the existing pedestrian path.

Subject SUBJECT SITE Site

Figure 10: Public transport services (Transperth Maps)

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9.0 Pedestrian Access

Pedestrian access to the subject site is available via existing footpaths which are in place along Leach Highway and Webber Street abutting the subject site.

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10.0 Cycle Access

Existing bicycle facilities in the vicinity of the subject site are shown in Figure 11, which is sourced from the Department of Transport’s Perth Bike Map series.

This map shows the subject site has good cyclist connectivity via the shared paths which are in place along Leach Highway and Webber Street abutting the subject site.

Subject Site

Figure 11: Bike map (source: Department of Transport)

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11.0 Site Specific Issues

No site-specific issues have been identified for the proposed child care centre.

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12.0 Safety Issues

No particular safety issues have been identified for the proposed child care centre.

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13.0 Conclusions

This Transport Impact Statement (TIS) has been prepared by Transcore on behalf of Accord Property with regard to a proposed child care centre (CCC) to be located at 79 & 81 Leach Highway, Willagee in the City of Melville.

The proposed child care centre development will accommodate 86 children with a total of 14 staff members.

The subject site is currently occupied by two residential dwellings which entail two crossovers on Leach Highway. Vehicle access and egress to the proposed CCC will be via a single full movement crossover on Webber Street and as such the two existing crossovers on Leach Highway will be closed.

Waste collection will take place on Webber Street via a private contractor with bins wheeled out from the bin store area on the designated collection day.

The site features good connectivity via the existing road network, path network and has convenient access to existing public transport services.

Based on the City’s planning scheme parking requirements, the proposed child care centre requires a parking provision of 16 car parking bays. The proposed development will provide a total of 17 parking bays on site which meets the requirement of the City’s policy and is sufficient to cater the needs of the proposed CCC.

The traffic analysis undertaken in this report shows that the traffic generation of the proposed development is estimated to be in order of 301 daily trips with 65 AM and 43 PM peak hour trips (total of both inbound and outbound movements) respectively. Accordingly, the traffic generation of the proposed development is relatively low and as such would not have any significant impact on the surrounding road network.

No transport or safety issues have been identified for the proposed child care centre development.

Therefore, it is concluded that the findings of this Transport Impact Statement are supportive of the proposed child care centre.

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Appendix A

PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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