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Prosperity Parc is a brownfield site, formerly known as Penrhos Works, comprising the site of the former Anglesey Aluminium Metal facility on Holy Island. It also forms part of the Anglesey Prosperity Zone within the Anglesey Freeport. The outline application sought consent for a Data Centre and Technology Park, comprising: up to 10,000sqm B1 office floorspace; up to 5,000sqm B1 research and development space; minimum of 223,000sqm B8 Data Centre use; and a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a capacity of up to 349MW. The planning application for the £1bn development was submitted by Oxalis Planning with an illustrative masterplan by FPCR. Working with them, our Transport Assessment examined the off-site impacts at 10 junctions, as well as the opportunities for sustainable travel. Anglesey County Council approved the application in September.

Harworth Group’s Thoresby Vale development continues to progress as Phase 6A and 7 gain planning consent from Newark & Sherwood District Council. Building on our work that helped gain consent for the original application, our Transport Assessment supported the application for a further 190 houses. In addition to assessment of off-site traffic impacts, tricky issues arose through the detail of the car parking arrangements of the new dwellings and the interaction with the country park immediately north and the proposed local centre retail units immediately south.

At the 28 October 2025 Charnwood Plans Committee, Bellway’s reserved matters application for 130 dwellings was approved. The planning officer’s excellent presentation highlighted the compliance between FPCR’s illustrative masterplan approved with the outline consent we supported in 2021, and Bellway’s detailed layout.

Another day, another roundabout. This time, we are pleased to report technical approval having been gained from Shropshire County Council to the new roundabout at the junction of Buildwas Bank and Much Wenlock Road. Our Infrastructure Design team have been engaged in designing the highway works necessary to deliver Harworth Group’s planning consent for the redevelopment of the Ironbridge Power Station. The Buildwas Bank roundabout mitigates off-site traffic increases, and has been a challenging 3D design project. Our designers have had to juggle various constraints, including the bridge over the River Severn, the downhill gradient of the Buildwas Bank approach, and the need to tie in Buildwas Road. Nevertheless, with assistance from the Council and their checking engineers we achieved technical approval in time for the contractors road space booking.

Another approval, this time at the Charnwood Plans Committee meeting on 28 October 2025. Following some initial feasibility advice for the landowners agent back in 2019, a subsequent outline application by Bloor Homes sought consent for 220 dwellings plus a one form entry primary school. The application was supported by our Flood Risk Assessment and Drainage Strategy that had to grapple with the relocation of the farmstead and its access that passes through an area of flooding, requiring a sequential test. Our Transport Assessment undertook strategic traffic modelling to examine the cumulative impact of allocated sites in Barrow, and constraints on the infrastructure at locations such as Barrow Bridge and the A60/Barrow Road junction. Access will be via a new roundabout on Cotes Road.

A busy couple of weeks of approvals. Firstly, Melton Borough Council have resolved to grant consent to Davidsons’ outline application for 175 dwellings on their site in Melton. Part of the Southern Sustainable Neighbourhood, allocated in the Local Plan, the site will be directly served from a new five arm roundabout on Burton Road, at the end of the soon to open Melton Mowbray Distributor Road. The roundabout has been built with two stubs, one to be the access to the Southern Sustainable Neighbourhood, the second to be the continuation of the MMDR to the south of that neighbourhood to join with Leicester Road further west. The planning application for 175 dwellings was submitted in 2015, with a roundabout designed by us that was subsequently taken up by Leicestershire County Council and their designers before being built by Galliford Try. So it is pleasing to see an approval and a significant step forward in the development at Melton South.

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

We are delighted to announce that Paul Garton has joined ADC Infrastructure as Technical Director within the Infrastructure Design service. Welcome to ADC Paul!

Newline have completed the highway works that provide access to North Kilworth Marina. The wide access is to provide for narrow boats delivered on the back of a trombone trailer, and the associated measures along Station Road reinforce the changed speed limits. Despite the marina being open for a while, the works were the subject of much toing and froing before they were designed in detail by our Infrastructure Design team, who gained technical approval and assisted Newline with the construction.

After many years of work, the Green Belt Arden Triangle site, that we helped become allocation KN2, has been granted consent by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. Ably shepherded by Cerda Planning, our client, Kler Group, sought outline consent for 450 dwellings on part of the allocation. All the assessment work had to look at the whole allocation, which included three other parties, adding to the complexity. Our Water Management team assessed the flood risk, and proposed a drainage strategy, complicated by the ecology. As the first application to come forward, our Transport Planning team assessed the cumulative impact of the whole allocation, as well as another allocation in Knowle, amounting to over 1,000 new dwellings. Extract of cumulative masterplan by IDP architects below.