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Revised Development Strategy
ID sylw: 54365
Derbyniwyd: 29/07/2013
Ymatebydd: Midland Red (South) Ltd. dba Stagecoach Midlands
This site is physically divorced from the existing built-up area, and distant from existing bus services. There is insufficient quantum to provide enough demand for a dedicated high-quality service in future.
Only a sustainable transport link over the railway could redress this weakness, without which the site could not be served by the extension of quality bus services, and would therefore be unsustainable.
We object to the proposed infrastructure requirements as we believe that they will be insufficient to facilitate the provision for sustainable bus service.
The now-consented appeal site south of St Fremunds Way cannot be served by a further extension of service 67, as a further vehicle resource would be needed. Much less will be possible to serve an additional 300 units to the south, for which separate access is envisaged, and therefore an entirely separate bus route would be required. As outlined above, merely extending services into this area at existing limited frequencies will require substantial additional resource, the costs of which, if developer-funded, would neither meet CIL Tests of reasonableness across such a limited housing quantum, nor would it likely to be commercially sustainable at full build out.
As we have said elsewhere, without a bus link across the railway offering scope to tie this area into the wider network to the west we do not see how this proposal can be considered sustainable.