The Government is under renewed pressure to produce the long-awaited replacement for decade-old guidance on traffic impact assessments.
The Institution of Highways and Transportation is urging the Department for Communities and Local Government to publish the promised ‘transport impact-assessment’ guidance to allow the implications of development on public transport as well as roads to be pinpointed. The DCLG’s predecessor department, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, pledged to produce the new guidance five years ago, in order to allow improvements in public transport accessibility to be positively planned for (Surveyor, 6 March 2003).
The ODPM first promised the replacement for the 1994 traffic impact-assessment guidelines in March 2001, when the PPG13 planning guidance was revised. John Smart, the IHT director of technical affairs, told Surveyor: ‘Five years on, this document is still not forthcoming. ‘Until we get a decision about the document, we cannot make decisions about revising our own document.’ The IHT guidelines only allow highway authorities and developers to identify whether or not any road improvements are likely to be required as a result of the building of developments such as shopping centres or business parks.
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