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STEPS TOWARDS AN AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
And stipulations

7.6 Comments on Key Elements (Continued)

The TRICS factor (of 0.241 equal to 24%) for the peak hour morning departures from
residential flats suggests that 26 vehicles would arrive at the A22. But if a more realistic factor
(representing an employment rate of 70% in the area) indicates that 75 vehicles would arrive
at the junction in the peak morning hour, BUT that only 25 could leave within 60 minutes of
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Flows for the integrated development of an estimated 120 flats is calculated as follows:

Figure 15: Internal traffic flows from the integrated development

The TRICS data suggests a flow of 69 vehicles but a more realistic estimate is between 101 and
202.

Thus, the conclusion is that in the peak morning hour around 100 vehicles would wish
to leave the integrated development for the A22 and only 25 will succeed .
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7.6 Parking
The application and supporting expert statements appear to rely on the MSDC Local Plan of
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2004 and policy T4 as the authority for calculating parking requirements, using the WSCC
demand calculator. This produced a figure of 100 parking spaces, which a good fairy has
reduced to 93, resulting in an average of 1.30 spaces per apartment overall and 0.8 spaces for
affordable homes. Most spaces are not assigned to specific flats, thereby inflaming
relationship-destroying scuffles: early morning and in the evenings.

28 It should be noted that these figures have been calculated by a non-expert. However, the general conclusion of
a serious internal log jam is believed to be correct: it is only a matter of degree
29 Mostly dated April 2018