Land at Ridgeway, Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire

Initial Transport Statement

Davison & Sons (Barford) Ltd

September 2012

SLR Ref: 406.04209.00001

Version: Final

i Land at Ridgeway, Papworth Everard 406.04209.00001 Initial Transport Statement September 2012

CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ...... 1 2.0 THE SITE LOCATION...... 2 3.0 EXISTING CONDITIONS ...... 3 3.1 Planning Policy Context ...... 3 3.2 Existing Highway Network ...... 3 3.3 Accident Record Analysis ...... 4 3.4 Site Accessibility Appraisal ...... 5 4.0 INITIAL LOCATION AND SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT ...... 9 4.1 Introduction and Background ...... 9 4.2 Cycle and Pedestrian Accessibility ...... 9 4.3 Public Transport ...... 10 4.4 Conclusions ...... 10 5.0 PROPOSED ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS AND OFF-SITE WORKS ...... 11 5.1 Site Access Arrangements ...... 11 5.2 Off-site Highway Works ...... 11 5.3 Summary ...... 12 6.0 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ...... 13 7.0 CLOSURE ...... 13

DRAWINGS

Drawing 1 Site Location Drawing Drawing 2 Location and severity of accidents Drawing 3 Nearest local services and amenities with 0.8 km blanket isochrone Drawing 4 Outline Site Access Strategy

FIGURES

Figure 1 Locations of nearest local bus stops

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 Planning Policy Assessment Appendix 2 Bus timetables and extract of Cambridgeshire County Council bus map

1 Land at Ridgeway, Papworth Everard 406.04209.00001 Initial Transport Statement September 2012

1.0 INTRODUCTION

This Initial Transport Statement is prepared in support of representations submitted to the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan Issues & Options Report consultation on behalf of Davison & Sons (Barford) Ltd (the landowner). The landowner owns land to the east of Ridgeway, Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire.

A development Master Plan prepared for this site has identified it as having a potential capacity for some 215 dwellings, together with supporting open space and infrastructure. In addition, the provision of space for allotments for the general use of the village has been identified.

Access to the site will be taken from Ridgeway itself, an existing residential access road that abuts the land, as well as non-car access routes from other access points to the south.

The purpose of this report is to undertake an initial assessment of the suitability of the site location for development for residential purposes. The report includes an examination of the surrounding area in terms of the local transport network and accessibility to local destinations, and the opportunities that future residents will have to travel to and from the site by a range of travel alternatives.

It will also outline the current transport conditions and identify any required upgrading of the transport network to accommodate the travel demand that may arise from the development.

The assessment will also make reference to planning policy guidance as it relates to such development.

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2.0 THE SITE LOCATION

The location and extent of the land to which this submission relates is shown on Drawing 1. The land is owned by Davison & Sons (Barford) Ltd and is located to the east of Ridgeway, Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire.

The land adjoins the existing residential area of the village of Papworth Everard to the west and south, whilst to the north and east is open agricultural land.

The principal highway that runs through Papworth Everard is Ermine Street, formerly the A1198 but is now by-passed (March 2007) and therefore now only carrying and distributing traffic through the village itself. Within the village itself, Ermine Street is known as Ermine Street North to the north of its junction with Church Lane, and Ermine Street South to the south of this junction. However, for the purposes of this assessment, it is referred to as Ermine Street.

The Papworth Everard by-pass runs to the west of the village, thus on the opposite side of the village from the land subject to this assessment. The northern junction of Ermine Street with the by-pass is located immediately at the northern end of the village, and is a 4-arm roundabout junction.

The principal approach road from Ermine Street to the land at Ridgeway is Wood Lane, a purpose-built residential access road which has a simple priority T-junction with the main road, similar to nearly all the side roads through the village. Wood Lane runs in an east-west alignment directly from Ermine Street to the land, whilst some smaller, residential access roads link from the existing residential areas adjoining, which offer potential non-car or emergency access routes.

Further details of the means of access to the site from the main highway network, and the proposed site access itself, is contained within Section 5.

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3.0 EXISTING CONDITIONS

3.1 Planning Policy Context

The nature and mix of the development would be determined through more detailed studies, but in general the land is being promoted for residential use with the infrastructure required to support such a development. Therefore, the type and location of this development requires its transport assessment to give full regard to the current planning policy framework.

Accordingly, the following national, regional and local planning policy guidance on the transportation and accessibility implications of the development are relevant to this submission:

National Planning Policy Framework (March 2012) Regional Spatial Strategy 14: The East of England Plan (May 2008) Cambridgeshire Local Transport Plan 2011 – 2026 (March 2011) South Cambridgeshire Local Development Framework, including: o Core Strategy Development Plan Document (adopted January 2007) o Development Control Policies Development Plan Document (adopted July 2007)

These policies are summarised as they relate to developments such as this within Appendix 1, and the implications of these planning policies, with particular reference to the site location and parking provision within the development, are assessed in Section 4 of this report.

3.2 Existing Highway Network

Vehicular access to the site will be available from Ridgeway by way of a new junction located at the northern end of the site frontage to this road. From this point, Ridgeway runs southwards for a short length before joining Wood Lane at a priority junction, the third arm being a relatively recently constructed access road into a residential estate known as Old Pinewood Way.

From this point, Wood Lane runs directly westwards to Ermine Street, with which it joins at a priority T-junction. Along its length, Wood Lane has relatively few direct access points from dwellings, but does have side road junctions with Barons Way, which runs southwards along the northern side of the recreation ground, Brookfield Road, which links back northwards towards Ridgeway, and Pendragon Hill, which also links back to Ridgeway.

All these roads are, or have become, residential access roads in nature. Wood Lane has a straight carriageway with footways to both sides, that to the north slightly off-set by a verge. Such is the width of the road and its limited use that traffic management has been installed to seek to reduce traffic speeds on this link. All other roads also have footways and street lighting, and carriageway widths of at least 5.5m on the principal links or 4.8m on the side roads.

In addition, an existing network of footpaths link through the woodland belts between the land and the existing residential areas surrounding Old Pinewood Way and, to the south, Chequers Lane. These paths, which are hard-surfaced, offer additional pedestrian links from the site through to the village centre.

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The principal highway that runs through Papworth Everard is Ermine Street, formerly the A1198 but now by-passed and therefore now only carrying and distributing traffic through the village itself. The village centre of Papworth Everard is located to the east of Ermine Street immediately to the south of its junction with Chequers Lane, and the primary school located to the west a short distance to the south.

The majority of junctions with Ermine Street through the village are simple T-junctions, and this includes the 2 junctions that would serve the land at Ridgeway for vehicular traffic, namely Wood Lane and Chequers Lane. Ermine Street along its length is subject to traffic management, much of which was installed after the completion of the by-pass.

3.3 Accident Record Analysis

To provide an overview of the current accident record of the highway within the vicinity of the land, and to assess any locations that may require attention and further assessment to mitigate the development, reference has been made to accident record data available through the County Council’s website.

Drawing 2 shows the location and severity of the five road traffic accidents that occurred during the five years from 2007 to 2011 on Ermine Street from, and including, its roundabout junction with the A1198 Papworth Everard bypass to, and including, the main entrance to Papworth Hospital. It should be noted that no accidents were recorded on any of the residential streets leading off from either side of Ermine Street between these two points.

The details of each of the incidents in the study area are given in Table 1 below. This data shows that three of the accidents occurred at junctions, specifically, Incident No. 3, involving two cars, which occurred in the dark at the junction of Elm Way and Ermine Street, and Incident Nos 4 and 5 which both occurred during daylight hours at the main access road to the hospital. Of these, Incident No. 5 involved a Medium Goods Vehicle. Incident No.2, which occurred approximately 20m north of Elm Way, involved a bicycle and a motorcycle (<50cc), while Incident No.1 occurred just before midnight in the rain, and involved a single car. Each of these incidents resulted in slight injury.

Table 1: Location and severity of accidents within the study area

No. Time Day of Lighting Weather Road Parties on Year Month of Severity week conditions conditions surface involved plan day 1 2007 July Thursday 2336 Dark Rain Wet/damp Single car Slight Motorcycle (<50cc) 2 2007 August Friday 0645 Daylight Fine Dry Slight and bicycle Car and 3 2007 March Thursday 0730 Dark Fine Dry Slight car Medium Goods 4 2008 February Tuesday 1105 Daylight Fine Dry Slight Vehicle and car Car and 5 2010 August Wednesday 1110 Daylight Fine Dry Slight car

The implications of this initial appraisal are assessed in Section 5.

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3.4 Site Accessibility Appraisal

3.4.1 Introduction

The land at Ridgeway has been assessed for accessibility both in terms of the proximity to the local services, shops and facilities within the village itself, and also the accessibility to bus services that run through the village and serve destinations further afield.

3.4.2 Local Services and Destinations

Manual for Streets (DfT, 2007), notes at Section 4.4.1 that walkable neighbourhoods are typically characterised by having a range of facilities within 10 minutes’ (up to 800m) walking distance of residential areas. However, it is also noted that this is not an upper limit and that:

“walking offers the greatest potential to replace short car trips, particularly those under 2km”

Table 2 provides an inventory of a range of key local services and amenities (including a doctors’ surgery and a chemist, a post office, library, nursery school and convenience store) which lie within an on-road walking distance of 0.8 km of the centre of the development site. Table 2 also gives details of the Pendragon Primary School (which lies 1 km from the site) and a restaurant and a fish and chip shop. These services and amenities are shown on Drawing 3, together with a 0.8 kilometre blanket isochrone that radiates from the centre of the site.

These destinations provide some of the essential day-to-day services for future residents, and are considered to be within the distances that are suitable for non-car modes of travel.

Table 2: Local services and amenities within walking distance of 800m from the centre of the development site Category Address Distance from centre of site Doctor Papworth Surgery 0.6 km Chequers Lane, Papworth Everard, CB23 3QQ Chemist Papworth Surgery 0.6 km Chequers Lane, Papworth Everard, CB23 3QQ Post office Papworth Everard Post Office 0.8 km Lower Pendrill Court, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY Library Papworth Library 0.8 km Pendrill Court, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY Nursery School It’s a Small World Day Nursery 0.8 km Upper Pendrill Court, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY Primary School Pendragon Community Primary School 1 km Varrier Jones Drive, Papworth Everard, CB23 3XQ Convenience store Nisa Local 0.8 km Lower Pendrill Court, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY

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Take-away food Luke’s Traditional Fish and Chips 0.8 km outlet 4 Pendrill Court, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY Restaurant Shilpa Indian Restaurant 0.7 km Ermine Street North, Papworth Everard, CB23 3RJ

In addition to the local shops and services in Papworth Everard, Huntingdon (12km to the northwest) offers a wide range of additional shops and services, as well as leisure facilities, while Cambridge, some 21km to the east, offers the full range of services and amenities that would be expected from such a regional centre. Both Huntingdon and Cambridge accessible by bus from Papworth Everard, as outlined in the appraisal of local bus services below.

3.4.3 Existing Pedestrian and Cycling Facilities

As stated in Section 3.2, all the approach roads to the site are, or have become, residential access roads and are fronted by houses on at least 1 side. All have footways and street lighting, and carriageway widths of at least 5.5m on the principal links or 5.0m on the side roads. All are subject to 30mph speed limits.

An existing network of footpaths links through the woodland belts between the land and the existing residential areas surrounding Old Pinewood Way and, to the south, Chequers Lane. These paths, which are hard-surfaced, offer additional pedestrian links from the site through to the village centre.

Along Ermine Street itself, signal-controlled pedestrian crossing points are provided at the junction with Chequers Lane and, in addition, as part of the traffic signals at the junction with Church Lane further to the south.

Ermine Street has a marked off-carriageway shared footway/cycleway along its eastern side through the village.

3.4.4 Existing Bus Services

The nearest bus stops to the development site are the Wood Lane stops on Ermine Street North. These stops lie approximately 500m from centre of the development. The locations of these bus stops are shown on Figure 1.

The Wood Lane stops are used by the 1, 3, 6 and 8 services all operated by Whippet Coaches. The 1 service runs between St Ives and Cambridge via Papworth Everard throughout the day from Monday to Saturday at a two-hourly or better interval. With a journey time to Cambridge of around half an hour, the first Cambridge-bound bus leaves the Wood Lane stops at 0657 on weekdays (0752 on Saturday). The first St Ives-bound bus leaves the Wood Lane stops at 0920 on weekdays (0836 on Saturday) with a journey time of around 15 minutes. The last bus from Cambridge arrives at the Wood Lane stops at 1835, while the last bus from St Ives arrives at 1717.

The 3 service runs between Papworth Everard and Huntingdon every two hours from mid- morning to late afternoon on weekdays, with two buses running on Saturday.

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The 6 service offers one bus in each direction between Hilton and St Ives via Papworth Everard on weekdays, while the 8 service offers two Cambridge-bound buses every day from Monday to Saturday with the first bus leaving the Wood Lane stops at 0915 and the last at 1330. While the return leg of this service does not call at the Wood Lane stops, the 1230 and 1630 buses from Cambridge call at the Elm Way stops which lie a little under 1 km from the development site. Figure 1 Locations of bus stops nearest to the development site

The operational details of each of these services is given in Table 3 below, and full timetable information is included in Appendix 2, together with an extract of the Cambridgeshire bus map which shows the routes of the 1 and 3 services.

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Table 3: Local bus services

Service First and last Nearest stop Hours of Service Number / Route buses at nearest to site operation Frequency Operator stop Half-hourly to 0715 then every MON TO FRI two hours from First bus: 0657 0645 until 1705 0910 to 1300, Last bus: 1717 then hourly from St Ives – 1605 Wood Lane Papworth – SATURDAY stops Hardwick - 0745 (from Cambridge Hilton)/ 0910 Every two hours First bus: 0752 from St Ives to 1310 then Last bus: 1647 1 until 1510 (from hourly Whippet St Ives)/ 1640 Coaches from Hilton At 0816 then hourly from 1000 MON TO FRI First bus: 0920 to 1400 then at 0816 until 1805 Last bus: 1835 Cambridge – 1620, then hourly Wood Lane Papworth – from 1705 stops Fenstanton – St SATURDAY Ives 0835 (from Hourly to 1200 First bus: 0836 Papworth)/ 0905 then hourly from Last bus: 1836 from Cambridge 1400 until 1805 Papworth MON TO FRI First bus: 1030 Every two hours Everard – 1030 until 1430 Last bus: 1430 Wood Lane Graveley – stops SATURDAY First bus: 0919 Godmanchester Two buses only 3 0900 until 1220 Last bus: 1234 - Huntingdon Whippet Every two hours Coaches Huntingdon – MON TO FRI First bus: 1022 to 1400 then at Wood Lane Godmanchester 1005 until 1705 Last bus: 1722 1705 stops – Papworth SATURDAY First bus: 1022 Everard Every two hours 1005 until 1615 Last bus: 1644 Hilton – Papworth MON TO FRI One bus only 0955 Everard – St 0950 6 Wood Lane Neot’s Whippet stops St Neot’s – Coaches Papworth MON TO FRI One bus only 1419 Everard – Hilton 1400

Papworth – 8 Wood Lane Everard – Dry MON TO SAT First bus: 0915 Whippet Two buses only stops Drayton – 0915 until 1330 Last bus: 1330 Coaches Cambridge

The implications and opportunities that the appraisals of the above locational and accessibility assessments provide are examined in Section 4.

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4.0 INITIAL LOCATION AND SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT

4.1 Introduction and Background

This section contains an initial assessment of the site location against the requirements of the policies reviewed within Section 3 of this report.

As determined by the appraisal of the local services and facilities within Papworth Everard, and the bus services that run through the village, it is apparent that the site offers very significant opportunities to enable and encourage off-site movements by non-car modes. By doing so, the development would fully accord with the planning policies, as described within this report, which emphasise the need to locate developments where there is a realistic and reasonable expectation that services and facilities may be accessed by travel modes other than the private car.

On this basis, it is considered that the site is ideally suited to promoting non-car travel by virtue of its proximity to existing foot and cycleway networks of the village which in turn enable access to destinations further afield by the local bus services. Each of these elements may be examined as follows.

4.2 Cycle and Pedestrian Accessibility

Manual for Streets (DfT, 2007), notes at Section 4.4.1 that walkable neighbourhoods are typically characterised by having a range of facilities within 10 minutes’ (up to 800m) walking distance of residential areas. However, it is also noted that this is not an upper limit and that:

“walking offers the greatest potential to replace short car trips, particularly those under 2km”

With reference to Section 3 of this report, the description of the land in the context of the local village services and the links thereto demonstrates that these are within 2km or less from the site.

The land is generally level, and as such therefore topography would not be a significant bar to using foot or cycle for these journeys.

The strategy for accessing the site by foot and cycle will therefore be as follows:

The provision of a series of routes within the development that ensure full permeability throughout, with priority on the internal access roads by foot and cycle rather than car.

The provision of separate and direct access points to the wider network, clear of traffic where possible. This will involve both those points onto Ridgeway and also through the Southern fringe of the adjoining residential area fronting Chequers Lane. In particular, the existing access road and permissive path that joins Chequers Lane offers very significant opportunities to provide a link for non-car modes through to the village centre.

The upgrading of the existing cycleways and footways along Wood Lane and the other linking roads and paths to link with the village routes and particularly those that link to the bus stops, primary school and village centre.

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The site location is such that there is a high potential for the future residents of the site to travel to work, shops, leisure sites and day-to-day services by foot and cycle. As such, therefore, the site location fully accords with current transport planning policy.

4.3 Public Transport

Section 3 contains the details of the current bus services serving the area, and confirms that the Wood Lane stops are used by the 1, 3, 6 and 8 services all operated by Whippet Coaches.

The 1 service runs between St Ives and Cambridge via Papworth Everard throughout the day from Monday to Saturday at a two-hourly or better interval. With a journey time to Cambridge of around half an hour, the first Cambridge-bound bus leaves the Wood Lane stops at 0657 on weekdays (0752 on Saturday). The first St Ives-bound bus leaves the Wood Lane stops at 0920 on weekdays (0836 on Saturday) with a journey time of around 15 minutes. The last bus from Cambridge arrives at the Wood Lane stops at 1835, while the last bus from St Ives arrives at 1717.

The 3 service runs between Papworth Everard and Huntingdon every two hours from mid- morning to late afternoon on weekdays, with two buses running on Saturday.

The bus service between Papworth and Cambridge is therefore regular and operates from sufficiently early in the morning to offer bus travel as a viable alternative as a means of travelling to Cambridge for work purposes. The linkages to Huntingdon and St Ives also serve as possible work-travel alternatives. As the Wood Lane stops on Ermine Street are some 500 metres from the centre of the land, these stops are easily accessible for those wishing to use the bus for travel. As has already been established, there are full footway links between the land and Ermine Street.

4.4 Conclusions

On this basis, it may be concluded that future occupiers of the development have the following options in terms of non-car travel:

Such is the location of the site and its proximity to the destinations locally that the pedestrian and cycle network to be provided within the site, and that already linking the site to the wider network will enable future occupiers to make regular foot and cycle trips to, for example, the village centre; and

The area is already served by regular bus services. These provide services on a regular basis to destinations further afield.

In light of the above, it is concluded that the development fully accords with national and local planning and transport policy guidance by virtue of its location and the potential to benefit from and provide non-car means of travel for future residents.

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5.0 PROPOSED ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS AND OFF-SITE WORKS

5.1 Site Access Arrangements

The principal of the site access strategy is shown on Drawing 4.

Vehicular access to the site will be available from Ridgeway by way of a new junction located at the northern end of the site frontage to this road. As has been utilised for a previous extension of Wood Lane, now known as Old Pinewood Way, the priority for access will be changed such that Ridgeway becomes a priority route on an east-west alignment, and the short linking length of Ridgeway that runs southwards from this point to Wood Lane effectively becomes a side road. By doing so, the lengths of approach road at this point are limited in length such that traffic speeds are restricted.

Ridgeway also serves as a secondary point of access to the site for emergency vehicles, required due to the quantum of development proposed. This secondary point of access, which will also serve as a pedestrian and cycleway access, is to be located towards the south of the north-south link, close to the junction with Wood Lane.

Further pedestrian and cycle routes from the site through to the village centre will be available from points along the western boundary of the site onto Old Pinewood Way and Chequers Lane.

In practice, Wood Lane will be the principal access route for this land and, as determined, has a carriageway width such that it is fully capable of accommodating all traffic in free flow. Secondary routes, such as Pendragon Hill or Baron’s Way, offer routes for non-car modes of travel or an alternative access routes for emergency vehicles, for example, should the main access route be blocked.

5.2 Off-site Highway Works

The assessment of the accident record for the area as included within Section 3 provides a general indication for where off-site works may be required to integrate the development into the local highway network.

The accident analysis contained within Section 3 indicates that of the five accidents recorded in the study area, three occurred at or near the junction of Ermine Street and Elm Way and two at the main access to the hospital. Given the nature of the accidents, it would appear that driver error is the primary cause of these accidents, rather than the existing highway conditions. It is also notable that 3 of the 5 accidents occurred in 2007, the year that the bypass was opened, and thereafter only 2 have occurred.

Like many of the junctions of the side roads that serve development areas to both the east and west of Ermine Street, the junction of Wood Lane with Ermine Street North is a simple T-junction. Whilst there is adequate space at this location to provide a ghost-island right-turn facility, mini-roundabout or signalised junction, in practice the assessment of this and other junctions along Ermine Street indicates that all are operating satisfactorily.

Whilst, therefore, a more detailed assessment would be required of the traffic impact on the local network, and in particular the junction of Wood Lane with Ermine Street, the need to undertake any upgrading of this junction in association with the development is therefore potentially unnecessary.

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5.3 Summary

The site is therefore found to have a suitable frontage to Ridgeway to offer suitable provision for the primary vehicular access arrangements.

An existing network of footpaths linking through the woodland belts between the land and the existing residential areas surrounding Old Pinewood Way and, to the south, Chequers Lane offer additional pedestrian and cycleway links from the site through to the village centre.

It is therefore concluded that site access to serve the level of development is fully achievable, and that more detailed assessment will determine any further mitigation required off-site.

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6.0 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

This Initial Transport Statement is prepared in support of representations submitted to the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan Issues & Options Report consultation on behalf of Davison & Sons (Barford) Ltd (the landowner). The landowner owns land to the east of Ridgeway, Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire.

The statement undertakes an audit of the existing transport policy conditions that affect the site and its setting. The nature of the local traffic conditions, including the public transport services, pedestrian and cycle provision and local highway standards are all described.

The assessment concludes that the site location is one that would support a development of the type and nature proposed. The location of the site and local transport services available are such that future residents would have a wide and realistic choice of travel modes for trips to shopping, work and leisure purposes.

The outline access arrangements are described, and will be examined fully in further assessments as necessary.

It is concluded that in transport terms the development proposal meets appropriate national and local policies aimed at securing sustainable development by locating development in accessible places, thereby reducing the need to travel by private motor vehicle.

7.0 CLOSURE

This report has been prepared by SLR Consulting Limited with all reasonable skill, care and diligence, and taking account of the manpower and resources devoted to it by agreement with the client. Information reported herein is based on the interpretation of data collected and has been accepted in good faith as being accurate and valid.

This report is for the exclusive use of Davison & Sons (Barford) Ltd; no warranties or guarantees are expressed or should be inferred by any third parties. This report may not be relied upon by other parties without written consent from SLR.

SLR disclaims any responsibility to the client and others in respect of any matters outside the agreed scope of the work.

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