Sunday 16 May 2021

TA: ‘HGV’s will only be permitted to travel south on Birdcage Lane’

We’ve wondered before whether anyone sense checks Aggregate Industries' documents. Does this blooper take the prize? 

The newly submitted Transport Assessment was written in 2018. Aggregate Industries & Co. have had 3 years to check it. It's even at Revision E. And yet, this clanger: 
4.3 Proposed Access Arrangements
4.3.2 The access will comprise a 6.0 m wide road with the junction formed by a 15 m bellmouth radius to the south and 6 m radius to the north; the smaller radius reflects that HGV’s will only be permitted to travel south on Birdcage Lane. 
Which from our perspective, and others who have objected to this madcap proposal, would seem perfect – but some might wonder how HGVs would actually get into the site. 🤔 

These documents are clearly meant to tick boxes, not be read.