Traffic modelling and walking/cycling infrastructure improvements for Sniperley Park
Dear Durham County Council,
I would like to request the results of any traffic modelling which may have been carried out to inform the design of the road layouts for the Sniperley Park housing development site, including the brief given to any consultant commissioned to produce traffic modelling studies. Please supply any studies produced since those for the County Durham Plan (i.e. since the 2018 AECOM report on the A167 and the deletion of the Western Relief Road from the County Durham Plan).
I would also like to know if any study has been done to identify what cycling and walking infrastructure improvements are required to make the site accessible and connect it with residential and employment areas to the east of the A167: which routes/facilities were identified for improvement and estimated costings for these.
I have read the proposed Sniperley Park masterplan and the Sniperley Healthy Active Travel Connectivity Plan. The latter mentions on page 3 "identified interventions, including costing and funding opportunities" but these are not present in the report. Can these be released, if they have been produced?
Yours faithfully,
Matthew Phillips
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Dear Durham County Council,
My Freedom of Information Request for information on traffic modelling and walking/cycling infrastructure improvements for Sniperley Park is long overdue a response. I would be grateful if you would answer my request swiftly.
There are two planning applications which are awaiting determination. It is appears from remarks in the documents submitted by the applicants that the council has carried out traffic modelling work, and may have carried out work to assess walking and cycling needs on the site and also in neighbouring residential areas. If this information has been shared with developers it is only appropriate that it be made public so that public comments or objections to the applications can be made in the light of the available evidence.
Yours sincerely,
Matthew Phillips
Dear Matthew Phillips
Thank you for your request for information received on 8 December 2021.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to you.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours faithfully
Julie Johnson
FOI & DP Officer
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