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APPENDIX 7 |
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DfT POLICY IN RELATION
TO DEVELOPMENT NEAR MOTORWAYS AND TRUNK ROADS |
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Motorways |
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The Highways Agency has a strict policy
of not allowing direct access from private development to motorways
or motorway slip roads unless development relates to motorway service
areas, motorway maintenance compounds, or, exceptionally, other inter
modal transport infrastructure. The Secretary of state will direct
Local Planning Authorities to refuse planning applications for development
whose access arrangements breach this policy. |
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Trunk Road |
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On trunk roads it is clearly necessary
in general to restrict the formation of new accesses to them if they
are to continue to perform their function as routes for the safe and
expeditious movement of long distance through traffic. A particularly
strict policy is appropriate to fast stretched of rural trunk road
and to trunk roads of near motorway standard, inside and outside urban
area. |
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Where a development is likely to generate
a material increase in traffic (as defined in PPG13), either via an
existing direct access or via an otherwise acceptable new access to
a trunk road, which would result in the access becoming overloaded,
the Secretary of State would advise (but if necessary direct) the
Local Planning Authority to refuse the planning application. More
likely, if improvements to the existing or proposed new access could
be designed consistent with the Secretary of State's 15 year design
horizon, normally applied to those schemes he initiates himself, to
provide the additional capacity, the Secretary of State could advise
(or again, if necessary, direct), the Local Planning Authority to
impose conditions on any planning permission that the development
should not occur unless and until those improvements have been carried
out. |
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The Highways Agency would thus not expect
to object to developments consistent with the proposals in the Local
Plan subject to the completion of any highway works which if considered
necessary and acceptable in relation to the trunk road access such
that the traffic generated by the development, together with all other
traffic, could be accommodated forward to the design year (normally
15 years from first opening of the development). |
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Where a development is likely to generate
a material increase in traffic on the main link of a trunk road, the
Agency would not normally object, subject to the completion of any
necessary and acceptable highway works, which leave the trunk road
no worse off than had the development not proceeded. In other words,
where a developer agrees to fund an improvement to the highway which,
taken together with the impact of the development, would leave expected
conditions on the trunk road much the same as those anticipated without
the development, then such a solution would in general be acceptable
to the Agency. |
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