This mixed-use development on the site of the former Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems factory, on Holbrook Lane in Holbrooks, Coventry includes 499 new homes and new business units.

The joint venture between Black Elk Estates, Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon Homes and Holbrook Lane Investment includes 301 two-storey homes and 140 two-and-a-half storey homes in a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced dwellings. A further 64 apartments will also be built within four-storey buildings. Part of the existing Meggitt factory and the associated Sports Club fields will be retained and form part of the overall site.

The integrated residential community is designed to have a sensitive relationship to the existing urban environment and its setting and includes 25 per cent affordable housing.

PJA provided highways, transport and engineering support for the planning application. The inputs involved significant discussions and liaison with Coventry City Council, Transport for West Midlands and Highways England.

Highways and transport advice included detailed scoping discussions to develop a comprehensive Transport Assessment and Travel Plan. These involved consideration of active travel and public transport strategies, travel demand, parking, modelling and off-site highway mitigation. Following preparation of the documents to support the application, we negotiated the S106 position with Coventry City Council and prepared briefing papers to support highway authority officers’ discussions with committee members.

Our engineering support included the redevelopment of an existing private estate road within the industrial and commercial area to bring it up to adoptable standards to allow parts of the site to be redeveloped into residential areas. This involved the redesign of approximately 1km of existing private road to meet the current design standards and the S38 adoption standards of Coventry City Council, as well as the creation of new accesses at both ends of the development area.

The work included liaison with Coventry City Council, the horizontal and vertical design of the 1km long spine road including facilities for pedestrians and cyclists, liaison with the client, architect and on-site developers to design eleven internal access junctions, the design of S278 accesses on Holbrook Lane and Beake Avenue, the design of adoptable highway drainage and S104 foul drainage.

The S278 proposals at Holbrook Lane include the creation of a new signalised junction with pedestrian crossing, improved facilities for cyclists, the removal of the existing Meggitt access roundabout and amendments to the exit lane from the roundabout to the south. The S278 proposals at Beake Avenue include the improvement of the existing disused access and the creation of a raised table junction to include the Swallow Road and Berwyn Avenue junctions.

Our highways and engineering teams worked together to provide a truly integrated and combined service offering. Full planning permission was granted in May 2021.

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