Proposed Mixed-Use Development, ‘Buchanan Wharf’, Clyde Place, Glasgow Transport Statement – Building 6 April 2021 129609 TS101: Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow - Building 6 Transport Statement CONTROL SHEET CLIENT: Drum Property Group PROJECT TITLE: Proposed Mixed Use Development, ‘Buchanan Wharf’, Clyde Place, Glasgow REPORT TITLE: Transport Statement – Building 6, Buchanan Wharf PROJECT REFERENCE: 129609 DOCUMENT NUMBER: 129609 / TS101 / Building 6 Issue and Approval Schedule: Name Signature Date Prepared by Ross McDonald Signed copy held on file 16/04/2021 Checked by Mark Peters Signed copy held on file 16/04/2021 Approved by Ross McDonald Signed copy held on file 16/04/2021 Issue & Approval Schedule Schedule Issue & Approval Revision Record: Rev. Date Status Description Signature By RMcD Drawings in appendices Final 1. 20/04/2021 amended Check MP Approve RMcD By 2 Check Approve Revision Record Revision Record By 3 Check Approve This report has been prepared in accordance with procedure OP/P02 of the Fairhurst Quality and Environmental Management System. This document has been prepared in accordance with the instructions of the client, Drum Property Group, for the client’s sole and specific use. Any other persons who use any information contained herein do so at their own risk. 129609 TS101: Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow - Building 6 Transport Statement Contents 1 Buchanan Wharf Development Proposals _______________________________________________ 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Site Location and Context 2 1.3 Planning Permission in Principle Indicative Masterplan Proposals 3 1.4 Current Masterplan Proposals 4 1.5 Development Phasing Strategy and Delivery Programme 5 1.6 On-site and Off-site Traffic Management Measures 5 2 Site Accessibility and Proposals _______________________________________________________ 7 2.1 Introduction 7 2.2 Pedestrian Accessibility 8 2.3 Cycling Accessibility 10 2.4 Public Transport Accessibility 11 2.5 Parking 12 2.6 Car Park, Emergency and Servicing Accesses 13 2.7 Passenger and Taxi Drop-off 13 3 Building 6 Development Proposals ____________________________________________________ 14 3.1 Development Proposals 14 3.2 Parking and Access Proposals 14 3.3 Servicing 15 3.4 People Trip Generation 15 4 Travel Plan Framework ______________________________________________________________ 18 4.1 Overview 18 4.2 Policy Context 18 4.3 Travel Plan Aims and Objectives 19 4.4 Delivery and Implementation Strategy 20 4.5 Appointment of a Travel Plan Co-ordinator 21 4.6 Staff Travel Survey 22 4.7 Travel Targets 22 4.8 Travel Plan Measures 23 4.9 Monitoring 26 4.10 Review 27 4.11 Action Plan 28 129609 TS101: Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow - Building 6 Transport Statement Appendices APPENDIX A Indicative Masterplan Layout APPENDIX B TRICS Output and People Trip Assessment APPENDIX C Sustainable Transport Maps APPENDIX D Swept Path Analysis Drawings for Emergency Vehicles APPENDIX E Site Plan for Building 6 APPENDIX F Fairhurst Drawing 129609/sk1003C – Refuse Vehicle Swept Path Analysis APPENDIX G Example Staff Travel Survey 129609 TS101: Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow - Building 6 Transport Statement 1 Buchanan Wharf Development Proposals 1.1 Background 1.1.1 This Transport Statement (TS) has been prepared on behalf of Drum Property Group (DPG), in support of an application for Approval of Matters Specified in Conditions (AMSC) in respect of Building 6 of Buchanan Wharf development at Clyde Place, Glasgow. 1.1.2 Fairhurst prepared the Transport Assessment (TA) report, with reference 112811/TA02, which supported the wider Planning Permission in Principle (PPP) for Buchanan Wharf. The PPP, with reference 16/02357/DC, was for ‘Erection of mixed- use development to include offices, residential, hotel, serviced apartments, shops/retail, offices and restaurant/public houses and crèche together with associated car parking, access, landscaping, public realm and infrastructure work.’ 1.1.3 The PPP consent was granted on 16 January 2017, subject to a number of conditions. Those relevant to this report are: • Condition 3 (2) – ‘Means of access to the site (permanent or interim). Access means inclusive access for pedestrians, mobility impaired, cycles and motor vehicles and shall include details of proposals to ensure the safety of pedestrians’. • Condition 13 – ‘The arrival of delivery vehicles associated with any commercial uses shall be restricted under a servicing regime to be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Planning Authority and thereafter operated in the agreed manner’ . • Condition 19 – ‘A travel plan prepared in accordance with Glasgow City Plan 2 development guide DG/TRANS 2 Travel Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority and thereafter implemented in the agreed manner. The travel plan shall include the physical/infrastructure facilities to be provided by the developer (e.g. showering and changing facilities, public transport facilities), the mode share target/traffic cap and the monitoring/reporting/correction procedures’ . • Condition 26 – ‘Vehicular access shall be taken via a dropped kerb footway crossing in accordance with Figure 10.16 of the Glasgow City Council Roads Development Guide’ . • Condition 27 – ‘Vehicular access shall be limited to West Street, Tradeston Street and Centre Street, with no vehicular access taken off Kingston Street or Commerce Street’. • Condition 34 – ‘Car parking provision shall be provided in accordance with Policy TRANS 4 of the Glasgow City Plan 2’. 1 129609 TS101: Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow - Building 6 Transport Statement • Condition 35 – ‘Safe secure and sheltered cycle parking (along with suitable shower and changing facilities for the commercial elements) shall be provided in accordance with Policy TRANS 6 of the Glasgow City Plan 2’. 1.1.4 Additional details have been made available, concerning the complete Buchanan Wharf development, in the period since PPP was granted. An AMSC application (reference: 18/1906/MSC) in relation to Condition 2 of the PPP was approved on 3rd August 2018. The approved masterplan sets out, in broad terms, the current Buchanan Wharf proposals over the whole site. It also sets out the overall vision for the wider site in the context of managing design and delivery of the project going forward 1.1.5 AMSC approvals have previously been granted in relation to proposals for Buildings 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, Kingston House redevelopment and off-site infrastructure works (reference: 18/02411/MSC). Road Construction Consent (reference: OT/DEV/CC/2388) was granted on 15th October 2018 for off-site highway works associated with Buchanan Wharf, which are now mostly completed. A Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) and Stopping Up Order (SUO) came in to force on 1 st October 2019 allowing the closure of Clyde Place to the north of Buchanan Wharf and rerouting of traffic eastbound on Kingston Street. 1.1.6 In addition, an AMSC application (reference 20/01678/MSC) was permitted in November 2020 for an 11 storey 22,074m 2 Gross Floor Area (GFA) office building on Plot 6 at Buchanan Wharf. The planning application was supported by Fairhurst Transport Statement reference 129609 / TS01 / Building 6, dated May 2020. 1.1.7 This current Transport Statement is for a smaller office block on the same plot, as an alternative to the one that was granted planning permission in November 2020. The transportation principles of the current proposal are very similar to the larger office that was previously approved. 1.1.8 Chapters 1 and 2 of this report comment on how a clearer picture of the wider development proposal alters some of the findings of the original TA (particularly in regard to mode share and trip generation) in order to update the context against which detailed AMSC applications for individual buildings can be considered. Chapters 3 and 4 thereafter comment on matters pertaining to Building 6, which is the subject of the AMSC application that this report supports. 1.2 Site Location and Context 1.2.1 The Buchanan Wharf site is situated within the Broomielaw District of the City Centre boundary defined by the Glasgow City Centre Strategy and Action Plan 2014-19 ‘Getting Ahead of Change .’ Key developments within Broomielaw District include the Glasgow International Financial Services District (IFSD) located to the immediate north of the River Clyde. Figure 1-1 below illustrates the city centre boundary. 2 129609 TS101: Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow - Building 6 Transport Statement Buchanan Wharf Source: Glasgow City Centre Strategy and Action Plan 2014 - 19 Figure 1-1: Glasgow City Centre Districts Map 1.2.2 Located on the south side of the River Clyde, the Buchanan Wharf site is bound to the north, east, south and west by Clyde Place, Commerce Street, Kingston Street and West Street respectively. Two parallel streets, Tradeston Street and Centre Street, used to run north to south through the site from Clyde Place to Kingston Street, but both were Stopped Up on 1 st October 2019. The land has returned to private ownership, though vehicular access to the wider Buchanan Wharf campus is still gained from Kingston Street via those corridors. 1.3 Planning Permission in Principle Indicative Masterplan Proposals 1.3.1 The PPP set out, in broad terms, the scale and nature of the development. The Transport Assessment (TA) that supported the PPP consent assessed transportation impacts of 90,000 square metres (m 2) of Class 4 Office, 350 residential flats and a 150-bedroom hotel. 1.3.2 The approved Masterplan area is illustrated by Figure 1-2 below. 3 129609 TS101: Buchanan Wharf,