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Proposed Residential Development, Our Lady’s Grove, Goatstown, Dublin 14 Transport Statement Project The Grove SHD - Student Accommodation Goatstown Rd, Dublin 14 Report Title TRANSPORTATION STATEMENT Client Colbeam Limited The Grove SHD - Student Accommodation, Goatstown Rd, Dublin 14 2 Transportation Statement Document Control Job Title: The Grove Student Accommodation, Goatstown Rd, Dublin 14. Job Number: p200012 Report Ref: 200012-rep-006 Final Rev E Author: Helen Gendy / Daniel Garvey Reviewed by: Thomas Jennings Date: January 2021 Distribution: Clients Design Team Planning Authority DBFL Consulting Engineers (File Copy) Revision Issue Date Description Prepared Reviewed Approved Draft 19/06/20 Internal Client Review HG MMK TJ Final 25/06/20 Planning Review HG TJ TJ Final Rev A 08/01/21 Client Review DG TJ TJ Final Rev B 22/01/21 Layout Updated DG TJ TJ Final Rev C 26/01/21 Scheme Description Updated DG TJ TJ Final Rev D 28/01/21 Planning DG TJ TJ Final Rev E 09/02/21 Planning DG TJ TJ DBFL Consulting Engineers Dublin Office Waterford Office Cork Office Ormond House The Atrium Phoenix House Ormond Quay Maritana Gate Monahan Road Dublin 7 Canada Street Cork Waterford Tel 01 4004000 Tel 021 2024538 Fax 01 4004050 Tel 051 309500 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] Email [email protected] Web www.dbfl.ie Web www.dbfl.ie Web www.dbfl.ie DBFL Consulting Engineers disclaims any responsibility to the Client and others in respect of any matters outside the scope of this report. This report has been prepared with reasonable skill, care and diligence within the terms of the Contract with the Client and generally in accordance with ACEI SE 9101 Conditions of Engagement and taking account of the manpower, resources, investigations and testing devoted to it by agreement with the Client. This report is confidential to the Client and DBFL Consulting Engineers accepts no responsibility of whatsoever nature to third parties to whom this report or any part thereof is made known. Any such party relies upon the report at their own risk. DBFL Consulting Engineers 200012 The Grove SHD - Student Accommodation, Goatstown Rd, Dublin 14 3 Transportation Statement CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................. 5 1.1 BACKGROUND .......................................................................................................... 5 1.2 ASSESSMENT CONTEXT ......................................................................................... 6 1.3 REPORT STRUCTURE .............................................................................................. 7 2.0 RECEIVING ENVIRONMENT .............................................................. 9 2.1 LOCATION ................................................................................................................. 9 2.2 LAND USE .................................................................................................................. 9 2.3 EXISTING PARENT PLANNING PERMISSION ........................................................ 9 2.4 EXISTING TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE........................................................ 11 2.5 SITE ACCESSIBILITY CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................... 17 2.6 LOCAL AMENITIES .................................................................................................. 20 2.7 PROPOSED TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE .................................................... 22 3.0 DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK ......................................................... 29 3.1 DEVELOPMENT POLICY ........................................................................................ 29 3.2 STUDENT HOUSING IN DUBLIN ............................................................................ 35 3.3 UCD STUDENT HOUSING PROVISION ................................................................. 37 3.4 DEVELOPMENT PRECEDENT ............................................................................... 40 4.0 CHARACTERISTICS OF PROPOSALS .............................................. 43 4.1 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................. 43 4.2 CAR PARKING ......................................................................................................... 46 4.3 CYCLE PARKING ..................................................................................................... 48 4.4 INITIATIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL............................................................ 51 5.0 TRIP GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION ..................................... 54 5.1 TRAFFIC SURVEYS ................................................................................................ 54 5.2 TRIP GENERATION AND MODAL SPLIT ............................................................... 55 5.3 TRIP DISTRIBUTION ............................................................................................... 61 5.4 TRAFFIC GROWTH ................................................................................................. 61 5.5 ASSESSMENT SCOPE............................................................................................ 62 5.6 IMPACT OF PROPOSALS ....................................................................................... 63 5.7 NETWORK ANALYSIS ............................................................................................. 66 6.0 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION ............................................................. 67 6.1 SUMMARY ............................................................................................................... 67 6.2 CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................... 70 DBFL Consulting Engineers 200012 The Grove SHD - Student Accommodation, Goatstown Rd, Dublin 14 4 Transportation Statement APPENDICES Appendix A – TRANSPORTATION LINKAGES Appendix B – TRAFFIC FLOW DIAGRAMS Appendix C – TWO-TIER HIGH-CAPACITY BICYCLE PARKING Appendix D – ELECTRIC CHARGE UNITS INFORMATION Appendix E – GoCar LETTER OF SUPPORT DBFL Consulting Engineers 200012 The Grove SHD - Student Accommodation, Goatstown Rd, Dublin 14 5 Transportation Statement 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND 1.1.1 DBFL Consulting Engineers (DBFL) have been commissioned by Colbeam Limited to prepare the necessary traffic and transport related assessment in support of a proposed student accommodation scheme on lands to the rear of Our Lady’s Grove, Goatstown Rd, Dublin 14. 1.1.2 The development will principally consist of: the construction of a Student Accommodation development containing 698 No. bedspaces with associated facilities located in 8 No blocks, which range in height from part 3 No. storeys to part 6 No. storeys over part lower ground floor level (7 No. storeys as viewed from an internal courtyard). 1.1.3 Some 679 No. bedspaces are provided in 99 No. clusters ranging in size from 5 No. bedspaces to 8 No. bedspaces, each with a communal Living/Kitchen/Dining room. The remaining 19 No. bedspaces are accessible studios. The development proposals includes the provision of communal residential amenity space at lower ground floor level (349 sq m) including the provision of a movie room (108 sq m), a music room (42 sq m) and a laundry (37 sq m); communal residential amenity space (1,356 sq m) at ground floor level including the provision of a gym (228 sq m), reception desk and seating area (173 sq m), a common room (338 sq m), a study space (104 sq m), a library (64 sq m), a yoga studio (74 sq m), a prayer room (33 sq m) and group dining (33 sq m). 1.1.4 The development also includes staff and administrative facilities (195 sq m); 9 No. car parking spaces; 4 No. motorcycle parking spaces; 860 No. cycle parking spaces; refuse stores; signage; an ESB substation and switchroom; boundary treatments; green roofs; PV panels; hard and soft landscaping; plant; lighting; and all other associated site works above and below ground. 1.1.5 The development includes the demolition of part of the Goatstown Afterschool building (558 sq m) and the construction of a new external wall to the remaining ope, in addition to the demolition of a prefabricated structure adjacent to the Afterschool building (161 sq m). DBFL Consulting Engineers 200012 The Grove SHD - Student Accommodation, Goatstown Rd, Dublin 14 6 Transportation Statement 1.2 ASSESSMENT CONTEXT 1.2.1 Best practice guidance indicates that in some cases, the transport issues arising out of development proposals may not require a full Traffic and Transport Assessment (TTA) to inform the process adequately and identify suitable mitigation. In such instances, it has increasingly become common practice to produce a simplified report in the form of a Transport Statement (TS). There may also be situations where the transport issues relating to a development proposal are quite small and limited, and no formal assessment is deemed necessary. 1.2.2 With the objective of quantifying the scale of assessment required for the subject development proposals, DBFL have made reference to the following guidance; • Traffic and Transport Assessment Guidelines (May 2014) by the NRA / TII, • Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown Development Plan (2016-2022), • Traffic Management Guidelines, as published by The Stationary Office, • Guidelines for Traffic Impact Assessment, published by the Institution of Highways and Transportation (IHT), and 1.2.3 In each of the above guidance documentation, development thresholds (several of which are

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