Project Description
CLIENT
Chancerygate
SECTORS
Employment
LOCATION
Cain Road,
Bracknell
PLANNING AUTHORITY
Bracknell Forest Council
HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
Bracknell Forest Council
PROJECT TEAM
Cornish Architects
PROJECT MANAGER
Tom Wilkins
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Damian Ford
PROJECT
TPA were appointed by Chancerygate to support a planning application to redevelop the former Hewlett Packard headquarters building to provide an industrial park.
The industrial park would provide 22 individual units totalling over 32,000sqm of floorspace for light industrial and / or warehouse and distribution use.
APPROACH
Access to the site utilised the two existing accesses onto Cain Road, although improvements were required to ensure the suitability for the likely increase in HGV movements to and from the site.
We were able to demonstrate that the redevelopment proposals would result in a reduction in peak hour vehicle movements on the local highway network and therefore no off-site improvements to the local highway network were required.
To address local highway authority’s concern regarding how the car parks would work and how the loading bays would be accessed by a range of delivery vehicles, suitable swept path assessments were prepared.
OUTCOME
Planning permission was granted in 2021.