Active travel
The site benefits from a highly sustainable location, with good access to local services by walking, cycling and public transport.
A network of new public walking and cycling routes will be set within the extensive landscaped areas of public space that will be provided within the new neighbourhood, creating connections with the existing public rights of way located on the site boundaries. This will facilitate access to services in the wider community by sustainable means.
Site access
Vehicular access to the site will be taken from a new priority junction with Ratby Lane to the north of the proposed development. The development itself will be arranged around an accessible internal road and pedestrian network, and the network of new walking and cycling routes within the site will connect with a variety of access points aligned with the existing public rights of way network.
The internal movement network within the development will be designed in accordance with the Manual for Streets and will include, where appropriate, the provision of a good level of street and path lighting, warning signs prior to junctions, tactile and coloured surfacing, safety kerbing, reduced junction mouth widths to promote slower vehicle speeds where appropriate; and signage to direct pedestrians and cyclists to key facilities and places of interest.
Public transport
The site layout and access has been designed to be served by a bus route, providing public transport links to the local and wider area.
A technical drawing of the proposed new access from Ratby Lane - Click to enlarge
Transport Assessment and Travel Plan
Barratt Redrow and David Wilson Homes have commissioned a thorough appraisal of the existing conditions of the local transport network, and any impacts a development such as this could create. The planning application will be supported by a Transport Assessment which will, amongst other things, consider the impacts of the proposals upon off-site junctions cumulative with other development and other sources of traffic growth using the Local Highway Authority’s modelling date. This will inform any mitigations that may be required in liaison with the Highways Authority, which would be secured by planning condition and funded by the development.
The application will also be supported by a Travel Plan which will consider sustainable transport measures and options for reducing car dependency.