Forthbank Wind Energy Development - Partnerships for Renewables

Forthbank Wind Energy Development
• Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) Transport (Paragraphs 165-181);
• Planning Advice Note (PAN) 75: Planning for Transport, Scottish Executive
(August 2005);
• Transport Assessment and Implementation: A Guide, Scottish Executive (August
2005); and
• Guidelines for the Environmental Assessment of Road Traffic, Institute of
Environmental Assessment, 1993.
7.2.5 Paragraph 168 of SPP states that:
‘A transport assessment should be carried out where a change of use or new
development is likely to result in a significant increase in the number of trips. The
output from transport assessments can also identify potential cumulative effects of
development which need to be addressed. Planning permission should not be
granted for significant travel generating uses in locations which would encourage
reliance on the private car and where:
• direct links to walking and cycling networks are not available or cannot be made
available,
• access to public transport networks would involve walking more than 400m,
• it would have a detrimental effect on the capacity of the strategic road and/or rail
network, or
• the transport assessment does not identify satisfactory mechanisms for meeting
sustainable transport requirements.
Recent developments, sites allocated for development in existing plans and
unimplemented planning permissions should not set a precedent for the allocation of
development sites in unsustainable locations.’
7.2.6 Paragraph 6.3 of Transport Assessment and Implementation: A Guide provides the following
guidance on requirements:
“Transport Assessment concerns person trips, not car trips. Transport Assessment
applies therefore to new developments and changes or intensifications requiring
planning permission that alter the transport features of the site. Transport
Assessment focuses on the development site within a catchment area determined
by the nature of the development, and assesses accessibility of the site to the
catchment by different modes of travel”
7.2.7 A formal Transport Assessment under the terms of the above guidance is not required for the
proposed wind energy development, as the Transport Assessment guidance principally relates
to developments that generate significant increases in travel as a direct consequence of their
function, for example, retail parks. However, in providing the information required to be
presented in this ES, this chapter addresses the local transport impacts of the development
during construction and operation and therefore addresses the issues that would be assessed
within a formal Transport Assessment.
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