Developments Affecting Trunk Roads and Special Roads
Highways England Planning Response (HEPR 16-01) Formal Recommendation to an Application for Planning Permission
From: Martin Fellows Operations (East) [email protected]
Council's Reference: DC/18/02970
Referring to the planning application referenced above, dated 02/06/2018 Application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act for removal or variation of Condition 5 (Estate Road junctions and splays) relating to DC/17/03027 (Erection of petrol filling station, restaurant and drive-thru takeway). Land A Scole Roundabout Between A143 And A140, Old Bury Road, Stuston, notice is hereby given that Highways England’s formal recommendation is that we:
a) offer no objection;
b) recommend that conditions should be attached to any planning permission that may be granted (see Annex A – Highways England recommended Planning Conditions);
c) recommend that planning permission not be granted for a specified period (see Annex A – further assessment required);
d) recommend that the application be refused (see Annex A – Reasons for recommending Refusal).
Highways Act Section 175B is not relevant to this application.1
1 Where relevant, further information will be provided within Annex A.
Highways England Planning Response (HEPR 16-01) January 2016
Signature: Date: 02/07/2018
Name: David Abbott Position: Spatial Planner
Highways England: Woodlands, Manton Lane Bedford MK41 7LW
Highways England Planning Response (HEPR 16-01) January 2016 From: Bezer, Rachael
Sent: 02 August 2018 11:29
To: BMSDC Planning Area Team Yellow
Cc: growthandplanning
Subject: DC/18/02970
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your consultation on the above application the Highways England do not wish to make further comment as the application has no relevance to the strategic Road Network.
Rachael Bezer
Highways England | Woodlands | Manton Lane | Bedford | MK41 7LW
Tel: 443004700798
Web: http://www.highways.gov.uk From:Ipswich, Planning Sent:3 Jul 2018 11:15:29 +0100 To:BMSDC Planning Area Team Yellow Subject:RE: MSDC Planning Consultation Request - DC/18/02970 Attachments:FINAL Development Management Consultation Checklist 160725 (002).docx
Thank you for your email.
We are returning this consultation without comment because we have checked the application and it is not clear why we have been consulted. Please find attached a consultation checklist which explains when to consult us.
If, after reconsideration, you still need us to comment on this planning application, please specify why. For discharge of conditions applications; we only comment on conditions that we have recommended. If you wish to re-consult us please tell us which condition we recommended.
If you confirm why we have been appropriately consulted, our 21 day statutory consultation period will start. If not, we will take no further action.
We have adopted this approach because we are currently receiving large numbers of inappropriate consultations. These significantly reduce the time and staff resources we have to provide you with timely statutory consultation responses.
Kind Regards
Charlie Christensen Sustainable Places Planning Advisor – East Anglia Area (East) Environment Agency | Iceni House, Cobham Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9JD [email protected] External: 020 847 45593 | Internal: 45593
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 29 June 2018 11:08 To: Ipswich, Planning
Please find attached planning consultation request letter relating to planning application - DC/18/02970 - Land A Scole Roundabout Between A413 And A140, Old Bury Road, Stuston, Suffolk
Kind Regards
Planning Support Team
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-----Original Message----- From: BMSDC Economic Development Sent: 05 July 2018 12:30 To: BMSDC Planning Area Team Yellow Subject: RE: MSDC Planning Consultation Request - DC/18/02970
Good afternoon,
Thank you for this consultation however we have no comment to make.
Kind Regards
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected]
Please find attached planning consultation request letter relating to planning application - DC/18/02970 - Land A Scole Roundabout Between A413 And A140, Old Bury Road, Stuston, Suffolk
Kind Regards
Planning Support Team
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Alex Scott - Planning Yellow Team Babergh & Mid Suffolk District Councils Endeavour House 8 Russell Road IPSWICH IP1 2BX
Sent by email to: [email protected]
Dear Sir
Applications for Planning Permission without Compliance of Conditions - DC/18/02970
Scole Parish Council wishes to submit the following comments:
1. This is the proposed Application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act for variation of Condition 5 (Estate Road junctions and splays) relating to DC/17/03027 (Erection of petrol filling station, restaurant (sic) and drive-thru takeaway (sic) ). The variation is for the removal of the requirement of access works prior to any other works and to change this to prior to the permitted use being implemented. 2. Conditions 3 and 5 imposed on the original application (DC/17/03027) requires that the first thing to happen on site is the construction of the estate road junctions with cleared sight splays. This is obviously to ensure the safety of both drivers of construction HGV’s entering and exiting the site and that of traffic passing on the busy A roads that the site sits adjacent to. 3. It beggars belief that whilst the District Council requires a safe exit from the site onto the highway once the development is complete, it does not require the same during construction. We would argue that this is the MOST dangerous time, when the passing traffic has not even got used to the sites existence. 4. The site entrance is on the inside of a long bend with high hedging adjacent to the carriageway. Thus, drivers approaching the site have limited visibility of any traffic emerging from the site. Also, traffic trying to exit the site has to partially enter the highway to check whether there is any oncoming traffic. This emerging traffic will be typically of HGV type and thus the possibility of an accident occurring would be reasonably high.
Sara Campbell Clerk to Scole Parish Council
Scole Parish Council Cont/… 5. We would also point out that as there are no submitted drawings of the visibility splays with dimensions, how is it possible for the District Council to assess the risk? 6. Should the application for relaxation of compliance be approved then Scole Parish Council would hold the District Council and specifically any named officer, liable for any accident, injury or death caused by lack of suitable and safe ingress and egress from the site.
Scole Parish Council therefore strongly OBJECTS to this application on the grounds of road safety and believes that it should not be possible for the District Council to waive compliance of what is effectively a national road safety policy.
Yours faithfully
Sara Campbell Scole Parish Clerk
From:Ipswich, Planning Sent:30 Jul 2018 14:35:27 +0100 To:BMSDC Planning Area Team Yellow Subject:RE: MSDC Planning Re-consultation Request - DC/18/02970 Attachments:FINAL Development Management Consultation Checklist 160725 (002).docx
Thank you for your email.
We are returning this consultation without comment because we have checked the application and it is not clear why we have been consulted. Please find attached a consultation checklist which explains when to consult us.
If, after reconsideration, you still need us to comment on this planning application, please specify why. For discharge of conditions applications; we only comment on conditions that we have recommended. If you wish to re-consult us please tell us which condition we recommended.
If you confirm why we have been appropriately consulted, our 21 day statutory consultation period will start. If not, we will take no further action.
We have adopted this approach because we are currently receiving large numbers of inappropriate consultations. These significantly reduce the time and staff resources we have to provide you with timely statutory consultation responses.
Kind Regards
Charlie Christensen Sustainable Places Planning Advisor – East Anglia Area (East) Environment Agency | Iceni House, Cobham Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9JD [email protected] External: 020 847 45593 | Internal: 45593
National Customer Contact Centre: 03708 506506 (Weekday Daytime calls may cost 8p plus up to 6p per minute from BT Weekend Unlimited. Mobile and other providers’ charges may vary.)
Do your future plans have environmental issues or opportunities? Speak to us early!
If you are planning a new project or development, we want to work with you to make the process as smooth as possible. We offer a tailored advice service with an assigned project manager giving you detailed and timely specialist advice. Early engagement can improve subsequent planning and permitting applications to you and your clients’ benefit. More information can be found on our website here.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 27 July 2018 16:50 To: Ipswich, Planning
Please find attached planning re-consultation request letter relating to planning application - DC/18/02970 - Land A Scole Roundabout Between A143 And A140, Old Bury Road, Stuston, Suffolk
Kind Regards
Planning Support Team
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From:Roger Greenacre Sent:31 Jul 2018 12:02:32 +0100 To:BMSDC Planning Area Team Yellow Cc:Mike Bootman;Graham Moore Subject:Petrol Filling Station DC/18/02970 Importance:Normal
Dear Alex, Following the letter received on the 27th July from Philip Isbell and our telephone conversations this morning I am as requested e-mailing you to confirm my concerns as to the safety risk of construction traffic using the proposed existing access from the A143 onto the development site. I have just visited the site and driven onto the site from the A143 using the proposed access . The access to the site from the A143 is only 50 yds from the roundabout at the junction of the A143 and the A140 and is on a bend with NO line of sight whatsoever of traffic arriving at the roundabout from the west. I drove onto the site and attempted to exit with the intention of turning left towards the roundabout. Oncoming traffic travelling at speed from the Bury St Edmunds direction has at best 15-20 yds of line of site of the exit from the access way to the site. THIS IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN and as such this access way must not be allowed to be used by construction traffic accessing and exiting the site. Mike Bootman, chairman of the Diss and District Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group on behalf of the Group has in the past few months expressed our real concern as to the safety issues relating to accessing and exiting this site. It would appear that our concerns have been ignored and now we have a proposal prior to the construction phase to use an access way to the development site which is guaranteed, if allowed to go ahead, to constitute a very real safety risk. I would urge you to arrange a site visit by whoever is responsible for approving this development to see at first hand the associated risk and demand that the developers find an alternative access way to the site Kind Regards, Roger Greenacre ( Chairman of Stuston Parish Meeting Committee )