TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT Tincklers Lane, Eccleston, Lancashire Redrow Homes Ltd P20003 – Tincklers Lane, Eccleston, Lancashire Transport Assessment Document Control Job Number P20003 Document Version Final N:\Projects 2020\P20003 – Tincklers Lane, Eccleston, File Reference Lancashire\7.Reports\TA Date November 2020 Client Redrow Homes Ltd Name Position Written By David Stoddart Associate Director Checked & Approved By David Schumacher Director P20003 – Tincklers Lane, Eccleston, Lancashire Transport Assessment CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 3 1.1 Purpose of Report ........................................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Scope of Report ............................................................................................................................................ 3 2 TRANSPORT POLICY AND GUIDANCE ................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 5 2.2 National Planning Policy Framework ............................................................................................................ 5 2.3 Planning Practice Guidance .......................................................................................................................... 6 2.4 Lancashire Local Transport Plan (2011-2021) .............................................................................................. 7 2.5 Central Lancashire Core Strategy ................................................................................................................. 8 2.6 Chorley Local Plan (2012-2026) .................................................................................................................... 8 2.7 Manual for Streets ........................................................................................................................................ 9 2.8 LCC’s Creating Civilised Streets ................................................................................................................... 10 2.9 Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 10 3 EXISTING SITUATION ........................................................................................................................ 11 3.1 Site Description .......................................................................................................................................... 11 3.2 Public Rights of Way ................................................................................................................................... 12 3.3 Local Highway Network .............................................................................................................................. 12 3.4 Existing Traffic Conditions .......................................................................................................................... 14 3.5 Highway Safety Review .............................................................................................................................. 15 4 DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL ............................................................................................................... 19 4.1 Development Description ........................................................................................................................... 19 4.2 Access Strategy ........................................................................................................................................... 19 4.3 Access for Commercial Vehicles & Internal Layout .................................................................................... 22 4.4 Stage 1 Road Safety Audit .......................................................................................................................... 22 4.5 Parking ........................................................................................................................................................ 24 4.6 Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 24 5 ACCESS BY SUSTAINABLE MODES ...................................................................................................... 27 5.1 Introduction to Sustainable Modes of Transport ....................................................................................... 27 5.2 Access on Foot ............................................................................................................................................ 27 5.3 Access by Cycle ........................................................................................................................................... 28 5.4 Access by Bus .............................................................................................................................................. 29 5.5 Access by Rail .............................................................................................................................................. 30 5.6 Working from Home ................................................................................................................................... 31 5.7 Travel Plan .................................................................................................................................................. 31 5.8 Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 31 6 IMPACT ASSESSMENT ....................................................................................................................... 33 1 P20003 – Tincklers Lane, Eccleston, Lancashire Transport Assessment 6.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 33 6.2 Traffic Growth ............................................................................................................................................ 33 6.3 Vehicular Trip Generation .......................................................................................................................... 34 6.4 Person Trip Rates ........................................................................................................................................ 34 6.5 Trip Distribution ......................................................................................................................................... 35 6.6 Impact Assessment ..................................................................................................................................... 36 6.7 Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 38 7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................... 39 7.1 Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 39 7.2 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................. 40 APPENDICES APPENDIX A SCOPING CORRESPONDENCE APPENDIX B TRAFFIC DATA APPENDIX C ACCIDENT DATA APPENDIX D TECHNICAL DRAWINGS APPENDIX E STAGE 1 ROAD SAFETY AUDIT APPENDIX F FIGURES APPENDIX G DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION APPENDIX H TRAFFIC FLOW DIAGRAMS APPENDIX I MODEL REPORT OUTPUT 2 P20003 – Tincklers Lane, Eccleston, Lancashire Transport Assessment 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of Report 1.1.1 This report considers the highways and transportation implications associated with Redrow Homes Ltd’s (Redrow) proposal for a residential development comprising up to 80 dwellings located on land east of Tincklers Lane, Eccleston, Lancashire. 1.1.2 This document has been prepared in accordance with the Government’s Planning Practice Guidance: Transport evidence bases in plan making (October 2014) and Travel Plans, transport assessments and statements in decision-taking (March 2014) as week as the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Guidance on Transport Assessment (GTA) (March 2007). 1.1.3 The conclusions and recommendations contained herein have been drawn based on information available and obtained in advance of the planning submission to which this report relates. 1.1.4 Reasonable checks have been carried out on any third-party information used in the preparation of this report but, nonetheless, Prime Transport Planning (Prime) accepts no liability for the accuracy or otherwise of this data. 1.1.5 Third-party rights are excluded for the use of information contained within this report. 1.2 Scope of Report 1.2.1 This report has been prepared in accordance with Transport evidence bases in plan making which replaced the DfT’s GTA in 2014. However, the new document is not a like-for-like replacement for GTA, providing no guidance on the production of Transport Assessments to accompany developments. The latest