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Saltford Parish Council
SALTFORD PARISH COUNCIL Saltford Library, 478a Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol BS31 3DJ 01225 873300 [email protected] www.saltfordparishcouncil.gov.uk 19 November 2018 THE RE-OPENING OF SALTFORD RAILWAY STATION Saltford Parish Council wishes it to be known by all relevant bodies that the re-opening of Saltford railway station as part of the Metro West rail project remains a high priority for this Council. The ‘Saltford Station: Feasibility Study’ dated October 2014 prepared by CH2MHill was very encouraging. Option 1, re-opening a station on the existing large (historic) site, was estimated to cost £4 million under scenario A, have a benefit-cost ratio of 2:1, and a net “new” fare revenue forecast of £770,000 per annum based on two trains per hour. This does not include a further revenue stream from parking charges. Patronage was estimated at some 200,000 users/annum. Saltford Parish Council is aware that the availability of parking at or near the existing site has been misreported by some, possibly in order to undermine the case for the station. Demand for car-park spaces is predicted at 159 in 2021 rising to 236 in 2043. There are 144 car-park spaces available on the existing site (Ref. Study - Annex Diagram). This could be considerably increased with a two-storey layout. Furthermore, there is an identified site within 400m of the station which could provide an additional 175 spaces and “thus has the potential to cater for an increased demand for parking at the station” (Ref. Feasibility Report 6.3). Local knowledge suggests that there are further potential sites for car-parking in this vicinity. -
The Rail User Express. We Continue with the Usual Roundup of News Items from Groups Around the UK. Please Keep Your C
September 2019 Welcome to the Rail User Express. RUX is published around the middle of each month. It may be forwarded, or items reproduced in another newsletter (quoting sources). Anyone may request RUX as an email attachment, or opt to be notified when it is posted on the Railfuture (Rf) website. There is no charge for either service. Following GDPR, Railfuture Membership now maintains both lists. Please advise if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter or link, or if you know of anyone who would like to be added. For further details of any of the stories mentioned, please consult the relevant website, or ask the editor for the source material. RUX congratulates Network Rail (NR) for delivering £98million of vital improvements over the late August Bank Holiday weekend. Blessed with fine albeit very hot weather, a 10,500 strong team worked round the clock to finish 448 projects on time, allowing a normal service to resume on the Tuesday. Some projects such as track renewal and the transfer of signalling control will have an immediate benefit; some will enable an improved timetable in December, while others have laid the ground for future developments. But all contribute to the Rf aim of a better railway. Well done! Roger Smith We continue with the usual roundup of news items from groups around the UK. Please keep your contributions coming: they are all gratefully received. Friends of the Far North Line FoFNL is still awaiting news of any improvements, which seems to extend back at least a couple of years. -
The Case for Reopening Saltford Railway Station
The case for re-opening Saltford Railway Station The development of a Greater Bristol Metro rail service and the electrification and re- signalling of the GW mainline that passes through Saltford offer an opportunity for Saltford station to be re-opened. Cost The station site as it is today Latest cost estimates are around £5.5 million for a two platform design. With the line, signalling, pedestrian bridge and “station footprint” in place, a basic station can be re-instated at modest cost. Business case A re-opened commuter station would serve 4,200 residents in Saltford, over 1,000 residents in the villages of Corston and Newton St. Loe (Duchy of Cornwall), and 4,600 students and staff on-site daily at Bath Spa University’s Newton Park Campus which is only 1 ½ miles from Saltford station. Residential places at the campus are set to increase from 400 to 900. 29,000 vehicles pass Saltford Station daily each weekday on the A4; some of this traffic would be able to park and use the railway service. The GW mainline Route Utilisation Strategy (2010) envisages an hourly shuttle train service from Bath Spa to Bristol Temple Meads. This service should serve a re-opened Saltford station. It would be a missed opportunity in the new in which over 400 said that they would be regular franchise if this commuter shuttle was able to users of a Saltford station. stop at all the existing stations but pass through The proximity of the Bath Spa University Saltford because it did not have a station. -
ECML 2020 Capacity - Timetable Assessment Report
Group Strategy - Capability Analysis ECML 2020 Capacity - Timetable Assessment Report Group Strategy – Capability Analysis ECML 2020 Capacity - Timetable Assessment Report Document Control Scheme Name ECML 2020 Capacity - Timetable Assessment Document Ref. No. Document v:\sap-project\ca000000 - ecml 2020 orr\004 report\ecml 2020 Location capacity 1.2.doc Version No. 1.2 Status Final Author Ed Jeffery, Amy Bradford Version Date 17/12/2014 Security Level Unrestricted Authorisation Control Ed Jeffery Signature Date Project Manager –Capability Analysis (Document Owner) Matt Rice Signature Date Operational Planning Manager © Network Rail 2014 Capability Analysis Page 2 of 78 Group Strategy – Capability Analysis ECML 2020 Capacity - Timetable Assessment Report DOCUMENT CONTROL & ADMINISTATION Change Record Version Date Author(s) Comments 0.1 28/11/2014 Ed Jeffery, Amy Bradford First Draft 0.2 28/11/2014 Ed Jeffery, Amy Bradford After internal review 1.0 04/12/2014 Ed Jeffery, Amy Bradford After external review 1.1 09/12/2014 Ed Jeffery, Amy Bradford After external review 1.2 17/12/2014 Ed Jeffery, Amy Bradford Reviewers Version Date Reviewer(s) Review Notes 0.1 27/11/2014 Capability Analysis Internal Review 0.2 28/11/2014 R. Lewis, M. Rice, ORR 1.0, 1.1 04/12/2014 M. Rice References Ref. Document Name Document Ref. No. Date Rev East Coast Main Line 2016 Final 1 N/A 12/10 Capacity Review Principal Development Timetable for Thameslink 2 CA118385-1 15/06/12 Key Output 2 (2011 1.1 Iteration) ECML Line of Route GRIP 1 3 Study – Capacity Modelling -
A1 Corridor Logistics Assessment
AUGUST 2021 AUGUST A1 Corridor Logistics Assessment: Bassetlaw Council Final Report Iceni Projects Limited ICENI PROJECTS LIMITED August 2021 : Iceni Projects London: Da Vinci House, 44 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Edinburgh: 11 Alva Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4PH Glasgow: 177 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2LB Manchester: This is the Space, 68 Quay Street, Manchester, M3 3EJ A1 Corridor Logistics Assessment Logistics Corridor A1 FINAL REPORT t: 020 3640 8508 | w: iceniprojects.com | e: [email protected] linkedin: linkedin.com/company/iceni -projects | twitter: @iceniprojects 2 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 1 LOGISTICS PROPERTY MARKET AREA ................................................................. 2 POLICY AND LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................ 7 MARKET REVIEW – DEMAND ASSESSMENT ....................................................... 14 SUPPLY ASSESSMENT........................................................................................... 22 ROLE IF THE A1 IN WIDER MARKET CONTEXT ................................................... 26 CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................................ 28 APPENDIX A ..................................................................................................................... 30 0 INTRODUCTION Bassetlaw District Council has commissioned Iceni Projects Ltd to produce -
Draft-Freight-Implementation-Plan.Pdf
Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Role of Freight 4 3. Existing Conditions / Current Issues 5 4. Aspirations for Tees Valley Freight Network 21 5. Interventions 22 7. Action Plan 25 2 Draft Freight Implementation Plan 1. Introduction Tees Valley Combined Authority is the local transport authority for the Tees Valley. This is the Tees Valley Freight Implementation Plan, part of the first Strategic Transport Plan for the region, for the period up to 2029. It has been developed by the Combined Authority in collaboration with our five constituent Local Authorities, Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees. The Combined Authority has ambitious plans to grow the region’s economy and our Strategic Economic Plan aims to create 25,000 Our vision for new jobs and deliver an additional £2.8billion into Tees Valley by Tees Valley is: 2026. We are also developing a Local Industrial Strategy, an agreement between us and the Government on how we will To provide a high improve our economy over the next ten years and how this will quality, clean, feed into the Government’s overall UK strategy. quick, affordable, reliable and safe In order to ensure that everyone in Tees Valley is able to work, transport network study, enjoy and fully participate in these ambitious plans for the for people and future, we need a world-class transport system that also encourages inward investment. Transport is about connecting freight to move people and businesses in Tees Valley and beyond. Delivering a within, to and from world-class transport system that is fit for the future is a critical Tees Valley. -
Issues Report
SESplan MONITORING STATEMENT VERSION 8.1 CONTENTS 1. PURPOSE ......................................................................................... 1 2. REVIEW OF EXISTING PLANS ........................................................ 2 EDINBURGH AND THE LOTHIAN‟S STRUCTURE PLAN 2015 .................................... 2 FIFE STRUCTURE PLAN 2006 - 2026 .......................................................................... 6 SCOTTISH BORDERS STRUCTURE PLAN 2001 - 2018 .............................................. 8 3. MONITORING THE CHANGES ...................................................... 11 POPULATION .............................................................................................................. 11 HOUSING .................................................................................................................... 14 ECONOMY .................................................................................................................. 20 TRANSPORT ............................................................................................................... 30 INFRASTRUCTURE .................................................................................................... 36 HAZARDS .................................................................................................................... 41 MINERALS ................................................................................................................... 43 WASTE ....................................................................................................................... -
Campaigning for a Bigger, Better Railway No 162 £3 December 2019 Pictures: INTERCITY RAILFREIGHT Pictures: INTERCITY
Published by RAILFUTURE – campaigning for a bigger, better railway No 162 £3 December 2019 Pictures: INTERCITY RAILFREIGHT Pictures: INTERCITY Inter-city trains and bikes How rail freight can help combat the climate emergency: See page 2 RAILFUTURE CAMPAIGNER OF THE YEAR 2020 Railwatch contents HS2 must be just the start of a rail future CLIMATE Further to the inaugural recognition we would like 2 Chris Page award at Railfuture’s to hear about them. We will By Graham Nalty annual general meeting require a written statement 3 High speed rail in Cardiff in 2019, of no more than 500 4 East Anglia and East Midlands High Speed Two must be EMERGENCY and in recognition of words identifying how the given the go-ahead because the page one picture the dedication and nominee has contributed to 5 Pennine fast track benefits of faster north-south rail achievements of Railfuture Railfuture’s mission to be links and additional capacity 6 North East Rover Picture: XINHUA volunteers, we will be the number one advocate outweigh the increase in costs to Our front page pictures from presenting the award for for rail users and the rail 7 Investment stasis £88 billion. Campaigner of the Year at industry, and how they 8 Your views The verdict came from the intercity railfreighT show the annual general meeting have enhanced Railfuture’s Oakervee report which was a cycle courier in Oxford in Birmingham on Saturday campaigning for a bigger, 10 Severnside and Wessex leaked in November in the face bringing a pathology 27 June 2020. better railway. -
Warehousing-And-Logistics-In-Leicester-And-Leicestershire-Managing-Growth-And-Change
Warehousing and Logistics in Leicester and Leicestershire: Managing growth and change Leicester and Leicestershire Authorities Final Report April 2021 Prepared by GL Hearn 65 Gresham Street London EC2V 7NQ T +44 (0)20 7851 4900 glhearn.com With MDS Transmodal Ltd Iceni Projects Ltd Public Warehousing and Logistics in Leicester and Leicestershire: Managing growth and change, April 2021 Leicester and Leicestershire Authorities, Final Report Contents Section Page 0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 10 Key messages from the report 10 1 INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT 20 Context 21 Study Area 21 Stakeholders 23 2 DRIVERS FOR CHANGE IN THE LOGISTICS MARKET 24 Better Delivery: The Challenge for Freight 24 National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Practice Guidance 31 National Planning Statement for National Networks 34 The Growth of E-commerce 35 Rail Freight Trends and Forecasts 41 Rail Network Enhancements 45 Highway Network Enhancements 50 Brexit 52 3 WAREHOUSING STOCK POSITION (2019) 60 4 PROPERTY MARKET REVIEW 67 Warehouse / Industrial Market Review 67 Warehousing Floorspace 70 Agent Consultation: Key Drivers and Trends 82 5 EXISTING SRFI RAIL FREIGHT VOLUMES 85 6 WAREHOUSE LAND SUPPLY AND SUPPLY TRAJECTORY, LEICESTERSHIRE AND ‘GOLDEN TRIANGLE’ 87 7 ESTIMATES FOR FUTURE STRATEGIC WAREHOUSING NEED – LABOUR DEMAND AND COMPLETIONS TRENDS 90 Labour Demand Model 90 Baseline Forecasts 94 Completions Trend Model 98 8 ESTIMATES FOR FUTURE STRATEGIC WAREHOUSING NEED – REPLACEMENT AND TRAFFIC GROWTH 102 9 TESTING DEMAND FORECASTS AND SUPPLY 113 Road Only Sites – Demand and Supply 122 10 FUTURE WAREHOUSE FLOORSPACE GROWTH SCENARIOS SUMMARY 127 GL Hearn Page 2 of 209 P:\Projects\Harborough District Council - Future of Wareshousing in Leicestershire - 20-322\4. -
Issues Report
SESplan MONITORING STATEMENT VERSION 7 CONTENTS 1. PURPOSE ......................................................................................... 1 2. REVIEW OF EXISTING PLANS ........................................................ 2 EDINBURGH AND THE LOTHIANS STRUCTURE PLAN 2015 ................................... 2 FIFE STRUCTURE PLAN 2006 - 2026 .......................................................................... 6 SCOTTISH BORDERS STRUCTURE PLAN 2001 - 2018 ............................................. 8 3. MONITORING THE CHANGES ...................................................... 11 POPULATION ............................................................................................................. 11 HOUSING .................................................................................................................... 14 ECONOMY .................................................................................................................. 20 TRANSPORT ............................................................................................................... 30 INFRASTRUCTURE .................................................................................................... 36 HAZARDS ................................................................................................................... 41 MINERALS .................................................................................................................. 43 WASTE ....................................................................................................................... -
How Soon Is Now?
HOW SOON IS NOW? The disruption and evolution of logistics and industrial property 2 3 INDEX INTRODUCTION AND INVESTMENT AND 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 DEVELOPMENT Introduction The investor view Executive summary Tipping the scales Addleshaw Goddard Policy recommendations A shift in shed requirements has led to big changes for the logistics sector M&G Real Estate Big is beautiful: why investors are chasing prime industrial assets Tritax Big Box Industrial is the high street of the future Legal & General Investment Management Mid-sized spread BMO Real Estate Partners Getting the fundamentals right Oxenwood Real Estate LLP Developer focus Trophy assets: a new perspective Addleshaw Goddard Fitting out and fitting in: how developers are making speculative development and mixed-use logistics schemes work Kier Property The Caddick case study Caddick Group Omega Warrington Miller Developments Direct rail termini can be a boon for logistics parks Verdion iPort 4 Market perspective INFRASTRUCTURE - WHAT ALTERNATIVES ARE 3 THERE TO ROAD? Challenges in the UK Logistics Market Savills Unlocking investment for rail as well as multi- modal sheds A commercial property trends perspective Addleshaw Goddard Aberdeen Asset Management Superports: why we need them and how to get them A regional view DP World London Gateway Gent Visick The importance of rail MDS Transmodal A European and global view Where needs investment, and how do we unlock it? Rail Freight Group A European view CBRE Global Investors A train wagon capacity perspective VTG Rail UK Cheap labour -
Portishead Branch Line (Metrowest Phase 1)
Portishead Branch Line (MetroWest Phase 1) Planning Inspectorate Reference: TR040011 Applicant: North Somerset District Council 9.4 ExA.RR.D1.V2 - Comments on Relevant Representations Author: North Somerset District Council Version: 2 Date: November 2020 DOCUMENT CONTROL DOCUMENT PROPERTIES Author SP, NSDC Title PRINCIPAL TRANSPORT POLICY OFFICER (NORTH SOMERSET DISTRICT COUNCIL, METROWEST PHASE 1 PROJECT TEAM) Document 9.4 ExA.RR.D1.V2 Reference VERSION HISTORY Date Version Status Description/changes 20/09/2020 1 DRAFT SP, NSDC initial draft 02/11/2020 2 FINAL Final 2 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 2 Purpose of the document.......................................................................................................... 2 Structure of the document ........................................................................................................ 2 2. THE APPLICANT’S RESPONSE TO RELEVANT REPRESENTATIONS ............................... 3 Table 1 - The Applicant’s response to Relevant Representations ............................................ 3 Table 2 – The Applicant’s Response to Additional Submissions ...........................................326 Appendix A – Response to Portishead Town Council Appendix B – Response to Pill and Easton-In-Gordano Parish Council Appendix C – Response to Barry Cash Appendix D – Response to Freightliner Appendix E – Response to Bristol Port Company Appendix F – Response to Mrs Freestone