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| APPENDIX 3- DEVELOPMENT
AFFECTING MOTORWAYS AND TRUNK ROADS |
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The Secretary of State is the highway authority for
the trunk road network (which includes most motorways) in England.
The Highway Agency, an executive agency of the DTLR, is responsible
for the management and maintenance of the network and delivery of
the Secretary of State's programme of trunk road and motorway improvements. |
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2. For development which may cause a material increase
in traffic on the M6 and/or its junctions, the Highways Agency will
require a Transport Assessment and will require the developer to fund
any necessary. |
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3. Transport Assessments will be required by the Highways
Agency for any development where any significant increase in levels
of traffic may directly or indirectly affect the national or trunk
or motorway system. The Highways Agency should be consulted at an
early stage to agree the scope and content of the Transport Assessment.
The Highways Agency may require the developer to fund improvements
to cater for development traffic. |
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Road Hierarchy |
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The District's road hierarchy is set out in the Lancashire
Structure Plan. This is reproduced below. |
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Motorways |
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These are special roads as defined by Section 16 of
the Highways Act 1988. |
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Primary Routes |
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These are high quality routes linking major centres
of population and provide for regional movements. They comprise trunk
roads and the more important 'A' Roads. They form the highway network
within the Strategic Transport Corridors. |
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- A65 within the District;
- A683/A687 from Heysham to Wrayton;
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Other Main Routes |
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These are good quality roads which acts as links between
and into the main towns and between those towns and the Primary Routes. |
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- A6 within the District;
- A589 - from A683 at Lancaster to A683 at Heysham;
- A683 - from A687 at Wrayton to District boundary;
- A5105 - from A589 at Heysham to A6 at Bolton-le-Sands;
- Lancaster City Centre Improvements (when completed)
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Distributor Roads (not defined) |
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These distribute traffic within towns and rural settlements.
They are intended to cater for movements from locality to locality
and to link these areas to the primary and other main routes. |
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Other Roads (not defined) |
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Provide access to adjoining land or development. |
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Policy on Development in Relation
to Trunk Roads |
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The Department of Transport's policy is set out in
Circular Roads 4/88. In summary the policy is as follows: |
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For Motorways - |
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The Department has a strict policy of not allowing
direct access from private development to motorways or motorway slip
roads unless the development relates to motorway service areas, road
junctions or motorway maintenance compounds. The Secretary of State
will direct local planning authorities (LPAs) to refuse planning applications
for development whose access arrangements breach this policy. |
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For All-Purpose Trunk Roads
(APTRs) - |
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On APTRs 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 particular strict policy is appropriate
to fast stretches of rural roads and to trunk roads of near motorway
standard. |
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Where a development is likely to generate a material
increase in traffic (as defined in PPG13) either via an existing access
(whether direct or indirect via a local road) or via an otherwise
acceptable new access on to a trunk road, which would result in the
access, or the main line of the trunk road, becoming overloaded, the
Secretary of State would normally advise (but if necessary direct)
the Local Planning Authority to refuse the planning application. Alternatively,
if improvements could be designed to provide the additional capacity: |
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- to the existing or proposed access to the trunk road consistent
with the Secretary of State's 15 year design horizon normally
applied to those schemes he initiates himself, and
- to the main line of the trunk road to leave conditions no worse
off on completion of the development,
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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 development consistent with the proposals in the local plan, subject
to the completion of any highway works which it considered necessary
and acceptable in relation to the trunk road and network. |
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