LIGHT HORSE BUSINESS HUB

Project:  Light Horse Business Hub, Eastern Creek

Client: Charter Hall

Year(s): 2020- Current

Scope of advice:

• Preparation of Traffic Impact Assessment
• Providing SIDRA Traffic Modelling
• Swept Path Assessments
• Preparation of a Green Travel Plan
• Preliminary Development of Construction Traffic Management Plan

Development

The Concept Plan approval for the LHBH, which was granted in March 2020, provided for:

• a total of 157,600m2 warehouse etc. floorspace and 7,900m2 ancillary office floorspace (total building area 165,500m2)
• a new access intersection on Ferrers Road with an emergency access (existing connection) on Wallgrove Road
• a cul-de-sac access road within the site
• a Shared Path link connecting to the existing shared path along the M7 corridor.

There is proposed to be 4 warehouses including:

• Woolworths (Chilled and Fresh)
• Aldi
• Hello Fresh

Project Specific Complexities

The associated traffic engineering challenges arose due to the enormity of the sites size, resulting in challenges of traffic generation and the surrounding roads capacity for the proposed development. The proposed development has a high level of projected heavy vehicles due to the industrial nature of the site as well as a great number of staff resulting in the requirement for traffic assessment and travel planning for the proposed development. 

TTPA has and continues to provide the project team with innovative traffic engineering solutions incorporating the design of the internal circulation and parking areas to ensure safe and coherent traffic movements with minimal heavy vehicle and general staff traffic interfacing. The traffic engineering assessment includes the projection of vehicle movements into and out of the site and how these numbers can be reduced to provide for a green business hub.