Hertfordshire County Council Highways Development Management workshop for

Hertfordshire County Council Highways Development Management workshop for Three Rivers District Council Nick Gough Highways Development Manager, SW Hertfordshire 5 September 2017 www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

HCC Highways DM Herts Highways HCC Highways from Oct 2012 • HCC/ Mouchel/ Amey Lafarge • HCC/ Opus Arup/ Ringway County Hall, Highways House + area offices • One team • • Planning and Implementation teams • Development Control www. hertfordshire. gov. uk • County Hall • Development Management • … pre application charging • … functional structure

From Development Control to Management Development Control Development Management Reactive process Focus on restricting development Focus on obtaining the end goal – the permission Proactive and positive process “DM is a positive and proactive approach to shaping, considering, determining and delivering proposals. It is led by the local planning authority, working closely with those proposing developments and other stakeholders. It is undertaken in the spirit of partnership and inclusiveness and supports the delivery of key priorities and outcomes. ” www. hertfordshire. gov. uk Encouraging and facilitating sustainable development Whole process rather than just the final decision Development management: proactive planning from pre-application to delivery, Draft Policy Statement (DCLG , 2009)

Team structure Mark Youngman Head of Profession Nick Gough Development Manager Graham Beviss Senior Development Officer Lindsay Mc. Cauley Transport Planner Adam Whinnett Development Officer Mr Vettivelu Development Officer www. hertfordshire. gov. uk Walter Osedeme Senior Engineer Implementation team

Team relationships Mark Youngman Head of Profession TAS Nick Gough Development Manager Ro. W Planning team Implementation team County LPA Enforcement team Development Services www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

The Development Management Process Pre-application Engagement Vision & Objectives Setting Engaging as early as possible with potential projects. Establishing a strong, shared vision and set of objectives Pre-application Application Handling Anticipating the Outcome Understanding the anticipated outcome from the process, either direct to planning application or via formal adoption Application types What type of planning application is required? Considering the Evidence Base Decision Making: Conditions and Obligations Delivery with compliance and enforcement What evidence is required? Making the decision with attached conditions and obligations Ensuring the conditions and obligations are implemented, and enforcing where they are not. Post Application Implementation & Monitoring www. hertfordshire. gov. uk Post approval implementation & monitoring. Planning obligations monitoring

Pre App charging www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Response methodology and templates • • Description of the proposal and current road conditions Access and highway layout Trip generation and distribution Impact on the highway network Accessibility Parking and servicing Mitigation – Travel Plans, off-site improvements and planning obligations www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Proposal and current road conditions 1 • • • Gather data - visit site, search HCC data, liaise with LPA Description of the proposal and current road conditions State what transport information has been included – Design & Access Statement, Transport Assessment, Transport Statement, Travel Plan. Check that these are acceptable Access and highway layout Road classification, hierarchy, and speed limit. Whether the road is public highway, privately maintained highway or a private road Traffic flow and collision data held by HCC www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Roads In Hertfordshire – Highway Design Guide • A 500 -page design document to facilitate the delivery of a highway network that is sustainable and promotes the safe flow of traffic along it • Available online for anyone to see but mainly • used by consultants working for developers New access onto A Class roads is “not normally permitted” www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Trip generation and distribution • • • Using the information from the Transport Assessment (TA)/ Transport Statement (TS) give details of expected trip rates and trip generations in peak hours. Has any future year assessment been carried out? If so, confirm whether methodology is acceptable Is information from surveys or TRICS? Is it robust? What is the trip distribution based on? www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

TRICS • • • Trip Rate Information Computer System • Founded and owned by 6 County Councils in the south of England: collectively the TRICS® Consortium • Annual collection programme covers the whole of the UK and Ireland across 17 defined regions National standard for trip generation analysis 7, 000 directional transport surveys at over 110 types of development www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Impact on highway & transport networks 1 • Summarise the likely impact on the highway and nearby junctions • Summarise the likely impact on transport networks • • Consider mitigation measures proposed • Consider construction phase impacts Compare proposals with measures in our own Urban Transport Plan www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Impact on highway & transport networks 2 Guidance from NPPF paragraph 32: • • • ‘Plans and decisions should take account of whether: opportunities for sustainable transport modes have been taken up safe and suitable access to the site can be achieved for all people improvements can be undertaken within the transport network that cost effectively limit the significant impacts of the development Development should only be prevented or refused on transport grounds where the residual cumulative impacts of development are severe. ’ www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Accessibility NPPF paragraph 29: • ‘The transport system needs to be balanced in favour of sustainable transport modes, giving people a real choice about how they travel. ’ • • Bus and train services Pedestrian and cycle routes Rights of Way Mitigation – Travel Plan www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Parking and servicing • • Responsibility of LPA • • HCC can advise on (private) internal layouts • Avoid reversing on to the carriageway and over the footway • Contractor parking and deliveries Parking effects free and safe flow. Positive in a speedreducing sense and negative in creating hazards. Deliveries, refuse collection and emergency (fire) access www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Mitigation – Travel Plans • • • NPPF para 36: – ‘A key tool to facilitate [opportunities for the use of sustainable transport modes] will be a Travel Plan. All developments which generate significant amounts of movement should be required to provide a Travel Plan. ’ Hertfordshire’s Travel Plan Guidance for Business and Residential Development School Travel Plans www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Mitigation – off-site improvements • • new site access – vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists • • • pedestrian routes and crossings bus stops – accessible standards and Real Time Passenger Information cycle lanes and crossings new roads etc. on major schemes www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Mitigation – conditions and obligations Planning Conditions Planning authorities may grant permission with conditions, attaching requirements which must be met for development to proceed eg: • Use of certain materials; • Requirement for additional checks and permissions. Planning Obligations Section 106 agreements – making development acceptable in planning terms. CIL regulation 122: (a) necessary to make the development acceptable in planning terms; (b) directly related to the development; and (c) fairly and reasonably related in scale and kind to the development. www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

Construction phase • • Discharge conditions Approve Construction Management Plan S 38 of the Highways Act 1980 S 278 of the Highways Act 1980 S 106 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 Monitor construction Enforcement – highway authority (Network Management), LPA and, in extremis, police www. hertfordshire. gov. uk

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