An Automatic Traffic Count (ATC) is taking place on the 25^th April 2022 for 7 days in order to help us produce evidence for our opposition. The Department for Transport sets out “neutral” days in which traffic count data can be used for official purposes. These neutral days must be a set amount of time after or before a bank holiday or school holiday, and as April was fairly full of holidays the earliest set of neutral days in April is week commencing 25^th April 2022.

The ATC will be set up in three locations; The first location is going to be set up on the approach to Cliffe Woods and will capture the total load of traffic on one of the most highly trafficked and narrowest sections at the top of the hill near the Farm Shop. The second location will be set up before Rectory Road to capture the traffic load into Cliffe village and the total HGV traffic on this section of the B2000. The final location will be set up on Station Road before the mini roundabout and will filter out the HGV traffic into Salt Lane works and will give indication of the HGV traffic along Cooling Road as well as giving traffic speed along Station Road by the parked cars.

The traffic count will be used in conjunction with published traffic counts and analysis from previous planning applications to challenge the information that Trenport has submitted in their planning application. We have already built a substantial case against the documentation presented and this ATC data will further augment that.