HGVs could be directed past a nearby primary school if the plans are given the go-ahead
Under current proposals, the site will have two entry points – one on Whitehall Road, the A58, and the other on Whitechapel Road which has a primary school on it. Generally, the entrance will be used by staff members who live South of the site on their way to and from work. This is said to account for around 30% of all employees, which Save Our Spen says will equate to a minimum of 182 cars accessing the site each morning, seeing a sharp increase in traffic passing the local school.
On top of this, though the applicant has said that the Whitechapel Road entrance isn’t going to be used by HGVs on the whole, HGVs can use the entrance in times of emergency. This raises the question of what constitutes an emergency, and with the proposed start of the day shift falling between 7:30 and 8:00am – around the time local children will be walking to school, there have been fears raised for the safety of local children.
Problems have also been highlighted with the suggested system of entering and exiting the site. The entrance on Whitehall Road, the A58, is proposed to be controlled via a traffic light system. Save Our Spen has envisioned that this would likely lead to HGV tailbacks into the busy A58, slowing down traffic and causing congestion.In the proposed entry system, each vehicle would have to book a slot to enter the site, being allowed one hour either side of their slot to enter.
The Transport Assessment has provided a number of potential mitigation measures for a number of the issues raised, including the widening of roads, but such measures have not been costed and have no timeframe. Save Our Spen also says that the current proposals are based on a very basic plan, which did not provide any traffic assessment, which was signed off in the local plan from 2019.
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