(Attachment: 6)Agenda item - Reigate and Banstead Borough Council

Planning Committee Agenda Item 8
13 April 2011 11/00126/F
6.32 The Head of Neighbourhood Services has expressed concern over the lack of
turning head to some roads, and requested that bollards or landscaped areas
proposed to prevent through-flow of traffic (such as to the front of units 322
and 367) should be removed to allow a through route for refuse lorries. This
is a reasonable request that would also improve permeability so the use of
condition can require this. Refuse lorries may reverse down other small culde-sacs
and a bin collection point to units 313 and 314 is too far for collection.
As it only serves two units it is reasonable to expect the owners to bring
their bins to the kerbside. In addition a request for strengthened corners was
made and clarification as to where bins will be put out. Although this cannot
be required by condition, an informative shall relay this information to the
applicant.
6.33 The road system has been designed in line with highway advice and design
principles in the guidance documents. The main internal distributor road
(the spine road) would include a footpath on both sides and raised tables as
traffic calming measures. The road hierarchy meets the required standards of
the technical annex to Surrey Design and is therefore acceptable.
6.34 The proposal incorporates a total of 447 parking spaces, including 49 visitor
spaces. The visitor spaces would discourage on street parking, particularly
on the spine road. The allocated parking spaces would be provided in
either garages or hard standing spaces, many in a tandem arrangement, and
would achieve two spaces per unit for the majority of the development. The
smaller/affordable units would achieve one space per dwelling and many of
the larger units would have an allocation of four spaces per dwelling. The
applicants have learned from issues within phase one with many of the
parking spaces actually wider than the common standard so as to
accommodate modern, larger vehicles, and garage doors would also be wider
(ensured by condition) to make their use more common.
6.35 Although the parking provision is below the maximum standard, it must be
recognised that 60 of the dwellings will be contained within the extra care
scheme, which generally requires less parking provision, so overall the
parking allocation per unit is much improved on that within phase one. The
level of parking is also expected to increase with the re-design of the
central green, which is to be reserved by condition, and the applicant
has indicated that they are seeking to provide a further 10 visitor spaces
along the spine road. It is expected that some on-street parking shall still
occur, but road widths have been designed to take this into account and still
allow for the free flow of traffic.
Flood Risk
6.36 The residential development is sited beyond the identified 1:100 year and
1:100 year +20% flood plains, an issue that was addressed prior to the outline
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