Headline: 225 New Homes = How Many Extra Cars? We Did the Maths.

The developers haven’t released their full Transport Assessment yet, but we don’t need to wait to know the impact. Using standard planning industry averages for residential estates, we can estimate exactly what 225 new homes means for Meg Lane.

The “Rush Hour” Reality Planning experts usually calculate that a family home generates roughly 0.6 car trips during peak hours (the morning school/work run and the evening commute).

• The Maths: 225 homes × 0.6 trips = 135 extra cars during the peak hour.
• The Reality: That is more than 2 extra cars every single minute trying to get out of (or into) that one junction on Meg Lane between 8am and 9am.

The Daily Load Over a full 24-hour period, a typical household generates about 5 to 6 journeys (going to shops, work, school, clubs, deliveries).

• The Maths: 225 homes × 5.5 trips = 1,237 extra car journeys every single day.

The Bottleneck Remember, all this traffic is proposed to flow through one single access point on Meg Lane. The developers plan to “realign” the Ogley Hay Road junction, but adding 1,200+ daily movements to a narrow lane is a massive burden, regardless of a new white line on the road.

📉 Don’t let them downplay the traffic. When you object, quote these figures. Ask the planners: Can Meg Lane really handle 1,200 extra journeys a day?