Delacombe Child Care Centre

The critical traffic engineering elements referenced in the Tribunal’s decision were:

Car Parking Reduction: The tribunal accepted a car parking reduction of 1 car space to preferentially provide a turn around bay on the basis that ‘ there is adequate space along the site’s frontage to Benson Close to accommodate the one space sought to be reduced’.

Traffic Impact: Vehicle access was via a court bowl rather than the higher order road (corner block). The Tribunal determined ‘whilst proportionally this is not an insignificant increase, in my view the raw numbers indicate that this will not be a significant impact, either on amenity or from a traffic perspective. The numbers are still quite low.’

Amenity: While not an area traffic engineers generally stray into, the Tribunal found that from both an acoustic and traffic perspective, amenity of the area would not be unacceptably impacted.