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The BBC news reports consent granted by Melton Borough Council to Charles Church’s application for 48 homes on land at Hilltop Farm, on the edge of Melton. Our transport planning work assessed the existing use of the site, once partly used for tyre recycling, and the proposed use, allowing us to conclude that the change would not materially alter traffic conditions on the surrounding road network. Nevertheless, the access required careful design, along with a speed survey and vertical alignment drawing to demonstrate that adequate visibility could be delivered despite the undulating main road.

Working with Bellway Homes, we are pleased to see Blaby District Council grant consent for an outline application for 95 dwellings on land at Croft Lodge Farm in Croft. The site is interesting, as it provides one of two accesses to a large area of land where car boot sales are held every weekend. As well as a development access, we had to design a separate access for the car boot site.

ADC are delighted to announce the arrival of Riley Male who has joined ADC as Graduate Engineer within the Water Management service.

Welcome to ADC Riley!

We are delighted to announce that Alfie Collins has joined ADC as Graduate Engineer within the Transport Planning service.

Welcome to ADC Alfie!

We are delighted to announce that Mohamed Khalafalla has now joined ADC as Graduate Engineer within the Infrastructure Design service.

Welcome to ADC Mohamed!

is in the details. While many of our projects are strategic in scale, we also have a wealth of smaller schemes. They test expertise, as the details are to the fore. Three recent successes are good examples. We helped gain planning consent for a field access on the A6006 Melton Road in Asfordby Hill. Despite the seeming simplicity, it required three rounds of highways comments, to justify the need and geometries. We helped gain Class R consent (prior approval to convert agricultural buildings to office use) at a hamlet near Ashby de la Zouch where the surrounding roads are all narrow lanes. We undertook traffic calculations to quantify the additional traffic, and demonstrated that there were opportunities for passing. Finally, we gained technical approval for a S278 proposal consisting of three speed cushions, plastic ones to be bolted to the carriageway, required by condition to counter substandard visibility at a junction.

We are delighted to announce that Lisa Marshall has joined ADC Infrastructure as our Head of Corporate Services. Welcome to ADC Lisa!

In recent times, surface water flooding has become yet another significant constraint on development. It is a topic our Water Management team tackle on a daily basis, as they seek to demonstrate the risks can be suitably managed and mitigated. As an example, we have this week heard that the Lead Local Flood Authority (Solihull Council) have raised no objections to the Kler Group application on the KN2 site at Knowle, subject to providing the proposed SuDS features – kerbside bioretention features and tree pits, an example of which is shown below.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council have resolved to grant planning consent to Inspired Villages’ hybrid planning application at Knowle for a retirement community of 170 residential units. The site is part of a wider site in the green belt that has been promoted by the landowners for residential development for a few years, and was allocated in the draft Local Plan. Inspired Villages applied to build on the northern part of the draft allocation. Our Transport Assessment and Travel Plan supported the application, and was complicated by the need to consider the cumulative scenario with a further 600 dwellings on the rest of the draft allocation. Roof plan by 3D Reid.

Erewash Borough Council have approved Bloor Homes’ application for 259 houses on a green belt site in Spondon, a difficult project that attracted a lot of local objections. The transport mitigation included improvements to the A52 Spondon Island that were supported by WCHAR and RSA reports to gain National Highways approval. Our Water Management team had to tackle a difficult issue with the cross border Section 23 application for culverting a minor watercourse.