Wokingham Borough Council has been following a sequential approach to assessment of transport impacts associated with delivery of the Core Strategy Local Development Framework (LDF) requirements. The objective of the Forecasting Report is to illustrate the relative transport impact of new development in the Borough without and with appropriate mitigation. The report demonstrates that network performance becomes increasingly worse if additional trips from new SDL development are accommodated with only minor improvements. The introduction of additional off-site infrastructure, in the form of the Shinfield Eastern Relief Road, Arborfield Relief Road and the partial North Wokingham Distributor Road/Ashridge Interchange results in an improvement in network conditions. This clearly supports the need for off-site infrastructure detailed in the adopted Core Strategy and Infrastructure SPD both to mitigate the impacts of SDL development and to create capacity in the local network to accommodate SDL development traffic.

Revision to the Report

The traffic model Forecast Year Results Report was first published on the Council’s website on 5^th October 2011.  This document contained a number of errors.  The errors were in the main body of the report and occurred when the wrong data was copied into the text. 

The errors are not a result of flaws in the model and do not affect the key results of the modelling work – i.e. that of the journey times and the change in journey times across key routes in the Borough for the 2026 forecast year.   

There is no change to any of the transport model data or output which reflects the suitability of the model as a tool with which to assess the strategic impact of development and infrastructure projects in Wokingham. 

A new report has now been published and the data has been checked for accuracy and consistency. The corrected document is Revision 2, dated 24/01/12, and is included here.