Traffic Assessment - Renfrewshire Council

3 Dargavel Village Centre Development Travel
Characteristics
Overview
3.1 The Dargavel Village Centre is intended to provide a development zone where community, retail,
commercial and residential uses are intermixed. The purpose of this planning application is to
establish the principle of the mix and potential scale of development. An indicative layout is
provided in Appendix B of the Appendices Report, while a breakdown of the various land uses is
indicated by Table 3.1 below.
Table 3.1 Dargavel Village Centre Development
Land Use Approx. Scale
Park & Ride 300 spaces
Foodstore 6,000m 2 gross floor area
Individual retail / commercial units 840m 2 total gross floor area
Residential 40 units
Library / learning resource centre and public realm 585 – 715m 2 gross floor area
Travel Characteristics Methodology
3.2 In terms of the current proposals, only the foodstore element will change from that consented by
the Masterplan, with all other elements remaining the same. Therefore, and as agreed with
Renfrewshire Council, only the additional trips require to be generated by the proposed 6,000m 2
foodstore will be considered by this Transport Assessment.
3.3 The travel characteristics for the overall Masterplan were previously calculated by the Transport
Assessment undertaken in 2008 with an extract provided in Appendix G. As previously indicated,
these were based on a foodstore with GFA of 2,500m 2 .
3.4 The 2008 Transport Assessment assumed that travel characteristics could be broken down into
three categories: trips from the proposed development, trips from the existing village and trips to
the employment opportunities within the proposed development. Consequently, the total external
trips i.e. those that would impact on the wider road network were identified and these were used to
undertake the detailed analysis. With regard to the foodstore, it was assumed all of the associated
trips would be generated by the Masterplan development and therefore would not have an impact
on the wider network.
3.5 The proposed Masterplan is predominantly employment and residential and as such the 2008
Transport Assessment considered the development’s impact for the weekday AM and PM peak
periods.
3.6 While it is acknowledged the scale of retail development now being proposed would normally
require an analysis of the weekend peak period, the critical cumulative traffic generation for a
development with 2,500 residential dwellings and 138,000m 2 of employment would continue to be
on a weekday. As the transport interventions identified for the weekday peaks would mitigate the
development’s impact for the weekend, it is not considered necessary to undertake an analysis of
the weekend peak period.
Job No Report No Issue no Report Name Page
SCT3526 1 1 Dargavel Village
Proposed Village Core Development
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