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Update (issued 7-12-07) on Goodman's application for development at Andover AirfieldAs you know, the Northern Area Planning Committee meeting scheduled for 3rd December was postponed because various issues have not been resolved and is now scheduled for the 25th February 2008. Road and Traffic IssuesIt is understood from HCC that the current situation is as follows: 1) HCC Highways have accepted Goodman's October 2007 estimate of 1660 two-way HGV movements per day (i.e. in trips + out trips) as the likely maximum daily trip rate arising from Unit 4 (Tesco's distribution centre). 2) HCC have insisted that Goodman continue to assume their July figures of 100 AM outbound/250 PM inbound as the maximum peak hour HGV flows associated with Unit 4 in order to ensure that the revised 100-Acre junction is robustly designed. Note that Goodman, in response to earlier HCC traffic objections, produced revised figures in October that were a small fraction of these estimates made in July. 3) These figures, and the light vehicle traffic estimates based on the latest proposed development mix in the Business Park, have now been fed into Goodman's Transyt model of the junction. 4) HCC says it is satisfied that the junction can handle the AM peak but still has concerns about the PM peak, particularly the length of the queue expected on the approach to the western over-bridge signals and its potential to block the entry to the A303 w/b on-slip. HCC say they also have concerns that the queue on the short link between the two over-bridges will block back and hamper the entry to the eastern over-bridge from the north. 5) HCC has also told Goodman that a queue of 160 vehicles on the Weyhill Road would be unacceptable. 6) The Highways Agency have concerns about the merging of HGV traffic entering the A303 e/b owing to the short distance between the 100-Acre e/b on-slip and the A343 (Salisbury) off-slip. The latest plan is to use a demand management system, similar to that on the M42, which uses cameras on gantries over the A303 to spot gaps in the traffic and then to control entry of HGVs onto the A303 by means of traffic lights on the slip road. 7) Unfortunately Goodman still appear to have made no proposals to prevent car traffic entering the Business Park via the villages south-west of Andover and Monxton Road. They have confirmed that the vehicle number plate recognition and control system will only apply to vehicles entering the Business Park that have three or more axles. Noise IssueGoodman's report on the noise impact of the development, contained in the October Environmental Statement, was considered so full of errors and omissions by TVBC's Environmental Health Dept. that they asked Goodman to rewrite it. The revised report has not yet been received and the EHO will not be making his comments and recommendations until it is.
Statement issued for public information by the STOP alliance, 10th December 2007. |
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