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Great news, that Shropshire planning committee resolved to grant planning consent to the Tasley Garden Village scheme in Bridgnorth. The proposals include 1,500 homes, 14.6ha of employment, a primary school, local centre, sports pitches, and country park. On behalf of Bloor Homes and Taylor Wimpey, all our services were involved. Our Water Management team produced a Flood Risk Assessment and drainage strategy, and ES chapter to successfully address the concerns of the LLFA. Our Transport Planning team produced an ES chapter and Transport Assessment that resolved the transport issues, supported by our Infrastructure Design team who undertook additional 3D detailed design work to demonstrate that the highway designs were deliverable. A great all round effort. Masterplan by Pegasus.

Solihull Council last week granted unanimous approval to the Kler Group’s outline planning application for 151 houses on Gentleshaw Lane in Solihull. Our Transport Assessment persuaded National Highways that mitigation measures were not necessary at M42 J5. Particularly tricky was the flood risk assessment and drainage strategy work, and we successfully persuaded the Lead Local Flood Authority that the uncertainty regarding the route and condition of the sites’ outfall watercourse that is culverted beneath the A41 Solihull Bypass could be conditioned and discharged later.

Our Infrastructure Design team have successfully gained technical approval for a lengthy scheme of footway widening works to introduce a shared footway/cycleway along Kettering Road in Market Harborough. The works connect Davidsons’ emerging Little Bowden development to the town centre. As ever, an apparently simple scheme was complicated by the details, such as the levels, driveway crossing, and utilities. With assistance from Leicestershire County Council’s approvals team, we got there.

A good start to the new year, as we hear that on 19 January 2026 Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council granted outline consent to the Lakeside development in Market Bosworth. We were grateful to be appointed last year to assist Golby + Luck, agents to the applicant, to support the planning application seeking consent for 38 luxury lodges, a wedding venue, and exercise pods. The challenging part of our transport planning work was determining the traffic and parking demands created by those uses. Golby + Luck masterplan shown below.

The BBC news website reports on an application we have supported in Nottingham – Plans submitted for new Nottingham £1m padel complex – BBC News. Adjacent to the Showcase Cinema on the car park of the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club, the scheme will provide a padel centre with five courts and a clubhouse. Our Flood Risk Assessment and Drainage Strategy report found the site to be entirely within Flood Zone 2, although the analysis of flood data obtained from the Environment Agency demonstrated the site to be outside and raised above modelled flood events. Visuals by Leonard Design below.

As well as the big stuff, we can sweat the details, and this small but perfectly formed scheme of Section 278 works was granted technical approval by Derbyshire County Council this week. The enhancement to Derby’s Ashbourne Business Park access widens the footway to create a shared footway/cycleway, enabling sustainable travel to the employment units. It is part of a wider scheme of works we are currently designing in detail.

After a lengthy determination period, complicated by the need to demonstrate to Nottinghamshire County Council that two points of access were not necessary, Ashfield District Council have resolved to grant outline consent to a residential development of up to 149 dwellings and a retail unit of up to 5,000sqft (465sqm) on land north of Alfreton Road in Selston. Our access design is shown below. It was complicated by the need to relocate a bus stop, and find a suitable location that did not block the numerous private drives, while also retaining a disabled parking space and introducing a refuge island to allow pedestrian crossings.

On 9 December 2025, North West Leicestershire District Council resolved to grant consent to a development of up to 46,451sqm GIA of B2 (industrial) and/or B8 (storage or distribution) units on Corkscrew Lane, south of the A511 Ashby Road between Ashby de la Zouch and Coalville. Our Transport Assessment included the design of an upgrade to the A511/Corkscrew Lane junction, to introduce traffic signals and ensure safe turning movements for all vehicles.

This year ADC teed off the festive season with 18 holes of mini golf at Golf Fang, before heading into the city for a night of live music at Katie O’Brien’s Irish Bar.

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of James, who has joined ADC Infrastructure as Graduate Engineer within the Transport Planning service.