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Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan Publication Version
DM9: Highways Safety and Vehicle Movements/ Routeing
Representation ID: 70
Received: 27/09/2019
Respondent: Ranskill Parish Council
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
Ranskill Parish Council would like to re-iterate their concerns made in response to your original consultation on the draft Minerals Local Plan, as these have not been addressed in this latest version of the plan.
These relate to policy DM9 where you state:
“Proposals for minerals development will be supported where it can be demonstrated that…
c) Where appropriate, adequate vehicle routeing schemes have been put in place to minimise the impact of traffic on local communities”.
Ranskill Parish Council would refute that the above has taken place in relation to the community of Ranskill.
In your preamble regarding the supporting documents you state that your Strategic Transport Assessment (STA) “… has been completed to ensure that there are no unacceptable overall impacts on the highways network... and concludes “… that the highway impacts of new or extended mineral sites would be minimal…” Whilst the impact on the Highways network appears to have been adequately covered there is very little said in the STA about the impact on communities which you state is one of your key strategic objectives in policy DM9 of the plan (as noted above)
Ranskill Parish Council’s concerns centre around the routing of HGV’s from the sites close to Ranskill i.e.
MP2m - Scrooby North
MP3e - Scrooby Top North
MP3c – Scrooby Top
MP2j – Scrooby South also sometimes referred to as just Scrooby
MP2I - Scrooby Thompson Land
The STA in relation to these sites states in section 3.22 that “outbound HGV traffic will route towards the A1 (M) J34 by turning right out of the access onto the A638 before joining the B6045 (and subsequently the A634). Inbound HGV traffic would route vice versa and turn left into the site access. This does however pass through sensitive receptors in Ranskill and Blyth”.
Ranskill Parish Council are extremely concerned about the impact of this on the community of Ranskill. The proposals estimate that an additional 72 HGV’s will pass though Ranskill each day in addition to the traffic from the existing quarry. The junction of the A638 and B6045 is already a source of concern to residents with through traffic routinely speeding and jumping the traffic lights. The junction is right in the centre of the village as regards services, with the shop and pub on opposite sides of the junction. Planning permission has been granted for 32 dwellings to be built close to this junction with their main access being on to the A638. B6045 (Blyth Road) is a residential road and although it is stating the obvious it is a “B” road not a “A” road contrary to the summary given in the STA in relation to the Scrooby sites which state that the sites “route to the strategic network via local A roads”.
Although the Parish Council are fully aware that according to your STA summary “… all sites will require a detailed transport assessment at the planning application stage” they fear that the reality will be that this route, having been stated in the plan and it’s supporting documents, will become accepted as the status quo without any investigation of alternative routeings taking place.
Ranskill Parish Council would like to re-iterate their concerns made in response to your original consultation on the draft Minerals Local Plan, as these have not been addressed in this latest version of the plan.
These relate to policy DM9 where you state:
“Proposals for minerals development will be supported where it can be demonstrated that…
c) Where appropriate, adequate vehicle routeing schemes have been put in place to minimise the impact of traffic on local communities”.
Ranskill Parish Council would refute that the above has taken place in relation to the community of Ranskill.
In your preamble regarding the supporting documents you state that your Strategic Transport Assessment (STA) “… has been completed to ensure that there are no unacceptable overall impacts on the highways network... and concludes “… that the highway impacts of new or extended mineral sites would be minimal…” Whilst the impact on the Highways network appears to have been adequately covered there is very little said in the STA about the impact on communities which you state is one of your key strategic objectives in policy DM9 of the plan (as noted above)
Ranskill Parish Council’s concerns centre around the routing of HGV’s from the sites close to Ranskill i.e.
MP2m - Scrooby North
MP3e - Scrooby Top North
MP3c – Scrooby Top
MP2j – Scrooby South also sometimes referred to as just Scrooby
MP2I - Scrooby Thompson Land
The STA in relation to these sites states in section 3.22 that “outbound HGV traffic will route towards the A1 (M) J34 by turning right out of the access onto the A638 before joining the B6045 (and subsequently the A634). Inbound HGV traffic would route vice versa and turn left into the site access. This does however pass through sensitive receptors in Ranskill and Blyth”.
Ranskill Parish Council are extremely concerned about the impact of this on the community of Ranskill. The proposals estimate that an additional 72 HGV’s will pass though Ranskill each day in addition to the traffic from the existing quarry. The junction of the A638 and B6045 is already a source of concern to residents with through traffic routinely speeding and jumping the traffic lights. The junction is right in the centre of the village as regards services, with the shop and pub on opposite sides of the junction. Planning permission has been granted for 32 dwellings to be built close to this junction with their main access being on to the A638. B6045 (Blyth Road) is a residential road and although it is stating the obvious it is a “B” road not a “A” road contrary to the summary given in the STA in relation to the Scrooby sites which state that the sites “route to the strategic network via local A roads”.
Although the Parish Council are fully aware that according to your STA summary “… all sites will require a detailed transport assessment at the planning application stage” they fear that the reality will be that this route, having been stated in the plan and it’s supporting documents, will become accepted as the status quo without any investigation of alternative routeings taking place.
