ADL/CC/ls/3685 12 February 2021 Mr B Fox Planware Ltd The Granary Walnut Tree Lane Sudbury Suffolk CO10 1BD Dear Ben Re: McDONALD’S RESTAURANTS, LAND TO THE SOUTH OF SWINESHEAD ROAD AND

EAST OF WORTLEYS LANE, WYBERTON, BOSTON (APPLICATION REF B/20/0432) Thank you for sending through the Highway Authority consultation comments dated 10 February 2021. We understand that Glanvilles are reviewing the highway drainage comments. We have reviewed the transportation aspects of the comments and responded as follows.

“The vehicular access into the proposed restaurant involves the use of a right-turn lane on the proposed new spur road off the A52 roundabout which is just a short distance from the roundabout. This will be acceptable to serve the proposed development because the spur road serves no other purpose than to provide access to the restaurant. There will be no other, on-coming traffic approaching the roundabout from the opposite direction. What is not possible to determine at this time is whether that right-turn lane would be adequate should there be further development served by this road or indeed should this spur become part of the Boston Distributor Road.”

The proposed Right Turn Lane can accommodate 5 vehicles. Currently all traffic will turn right in and left out. The proposed McDonald’s traffic during the peak periods is 113-117 vehicles inbound so 2 vehicles per minute. It is therefore unlikely that the queue in the Right Turn Lane will exceed 2 vehicles even with all traffic turning right into the site. If other developments or the Boston Distributor Road came forward then we would expect that there would be split turning both left and right into the site, therefore although the through traffic levels may increase the number of right turn movements into the site would decrease so it is still likely that the right turn lane would have more than sufficient capacity.

“The submitted details advise that the proposed internal layout would provide sufficient space for the vehicles of drive-through customers to queue within the site, so that the queue would not tail-back out of the restaurant site or onto the A52. Whilst this may be supported by empirical data drawn from other McDonalds sites, the experience in this County, and in particular at Boston's Queen Street outlet, is that notwithstanding that data, traffic frequently queues back onto the adjacent public highway. It is therefore suggested that the internal layout of the site be designed so that the entirety of the queue lane, from the site entrance to the pay-point, is two vehicles wide. This should be achievable by amendment to the submitted layout. The highway authority would not be able to confirm or disprove the contention within the submitted details, that the proposed development would be expected to result in transference of custom from the existing outlet in Queen Street, Boston and thereby possibly reduce the vehicle queuing at the Queen Street site.”

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The proposed drive thru lane has capacity to accommodate up to 19 vehicles within the drive thru lane as shown on drawing 3685/SK/03 attached. The entrance to the proposed drive thru lane has been located as far from the site access as possible so there could be up to 26 vehicles accommodated before the circulation of the car park would be affected. The peak demand based on similar stores is only 11 vehicles so the drive thru lane would have more than sufficient capacity. The Highway Authority suggestion for a two lane drive thru approach is a non-standard design for McDonald’s restaurants and is not acceptable it would lead to customers weaving between lanes. The Highway Authority have also not considered how a driver in the outside lane is supposed to reach across and pay for their meal with another vehicle between them and the cash booth. The Boston Queen Street restaurant is overtrading. The drive thru lane only has capacity for 13 vehicles and if there are more than 15 vehicles then the queue blocks the access to the Retail Park so the vehicles queuing are then Retail Park customers as well as McDonald’s customers. McDonald’s have advised that 40% of the proposed development traffic will be transfer trips from the Queen Street restaurant and this will reduce the level of activity at Queens Street by 25%. This would help improve the existing queue situation at Queens Street. Trade information is commercially sensitive and therefore we cannot release this into the public domain. However, transfer trips are a recognised concept by the Department for Transport and are regularly assessed as part of foodstore Transport Assessments. For example, the application for the Aldi recently approved (September 2020) at Uffington Road Stamford (S20/0955) included a Transport Assessment which made assessments on the level of transfer trips from the nearby Morrison’s to the proposed Aldi. This was seemingly accepted by Lincolnshire Highway Authority without comment and we would note that these are different supermarket brands. It is therefore concluded that there is no justifiable reason why the Highway Authority should not be consistent in their approach and that the same concept should not apply to restaurant use, especially given that in this case the transfer of trips is between the same operator. We trust that the above addresses the comments raised by the Highway Authority. Please do contact me if you have any further queries. Yours sincerely for ADL TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAYS ENGINEERING LIMITED

CATHERINE CHAPMAN DIRECTOR Cc: Mr P Thomas McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd Mr P Valentine McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd

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