Langham Park Developments Proposed Residential Development ...

Proposed Development off Low Wood Road, Nottingham
The proposed development may have a minimal material traffic impact, when compared
with the existing high volume of traffic on the local highway network, however due to its
location on a radial route and its close proximity to the city centre the impact is likely to be
negligible.
7.5 Committed Development
During the preparation of this Transport Assessment and following conversations with NCC
and Broxtowe Borough Council and having investigated any potential development on the
BBC Planning Portal website, it was confirmed that there are no committed developments
that need to be considered during this Transport Assessment.
7.6 Traffic Growth
Tempro Version 6.8.2 was used to obtain growth factors that are required to factor up the
2011 traffic flows to the required 2012 and 2017 (AM and PM) assessment years.
It was agreed with NCC that Tempro provides robust growth factors for the assessment and
can be used to growth up the traffic flows for assessment purposes. The factors used to
growth the traffic flows up are shown below and it should be noted that an allowance for
committed development traffic is also incorporated into these growth factors, hence
furthering the robust assessment scenarios;
• 2011 – 2012 AM: 1.0183
• 2011 – 2012 PM: 1.0170
• 2011 – 2017 AM: 1.0973
• 2011 – 2017 PM: 1.1042
As NCC did not have any recent valid traffic count data for the assessment area OIC
commissioned fully classified turning count surveys at the junctions agreed with NCC.
Having agreed with NCC that Tempro version 6.8.2 should be used to obtain local growth
factors and the base and design assessment scenarios were also agreed the above factors
were then used to growth the survey flows to the future years.
OIC confirmed with NCC and Nottingham City Council that as no committed developments
need to be taken account of during this assessment work no committed development traffic
flows have been considered.
Upon completion of the base assessment scenario traffic flows, that have been derived
from the TRICS database for the proposed residential development, are added onto the
local highway network to provide design year assessments for the agreed future years.
Traffic flow Figures 1 and 2 in Appendix C show the 2011, 2012 and 2017 traffic flows. The
traffic flows have been factored up to 2012 and 2017 using the above factors that are also
shown in Appendix C.
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