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ouncillors sitting on South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Development Management Committee have refused planning permission for the creation of a new vehicular access point directly off Hatchet Road into the site of the former Co-operative food store near Parkway Station. The decision was made despite the council’s professional planning officers recommending that the application be approved. Detail from a drawing showing the proposed new site access point The applicant, Danolly Limited, had withdrawn a the results of a formal desktop access from Hatchet Road is previous application for a similar road safety audit and makes “imperative to facilitate the scheme in July 2020 after SGC’s use of data from a traffic survey ongoing occupation of the site for transportation development conducted in February 2017 in retail uses”. control department raised an connection with the planning Fears that queuing traffic on objection grounded on five key application for the Gipsy Patch Hatchet Road might restrict concerns. Lane bridge replacement project. drivers from being able to make A revised planning application The report repeats a claim right turn manoeuvres into and was submitted in October 2020, made in the first application out of the site were countered accompanied by a new technical that a “lack of direct vehicular by reference to traffic modelling report in which the applicant access from Hatchet Road” was data showing that the impact responds to the concerns the primary reason for the Co-op on journey times along Hatchet previously raised by the council’s choosing not to extend its lease Road would be negligible. transport officers. in January 2020. It also claims The positioning of ‘no Winter BSJ ad.qxp_Layout 1 26/10/2020 16:24 of Page 1 vehicular The technical report includes that delivery direct deliveries’ signage at the new site
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access would avoid large vehicles having to make sharp turns in a constrained space immediately after entering the site. Concerns that two vehicles might struggle to pass / manoeuvre through the new junction, potentially impacting traffic flow on Hatchet Road, were countered by the submission of tracking plans, The placement of a speed bump across the width of the new access would reduce vehicle speeds entering the site, thereby addressing concerns about the safety of pedestrians walking within the site car park. Fears that the proposed new junction might create a short-cut for vehicles travelling between Hatchet Lane and Hatchet Road would be addressed by positioning ‘deliveries only’ signage at the Hatchet Lane access. Responding to the revised application, the council’s transport officers noted that the access layout had been “subject to a modest rearrangement” but
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