POLICY EIGHT: INGRESS & EGRESS FROM NEW DEVELOPMENT

OBJECTIVE 11 
To ensure sufficient ingress and egress to and from any new developments to minimise detrimental effects of increases to vehicle usage 

1. Development proposals must demonstrate how they can be incorporated in a satisfactory way into the capacity of the local highway network. 
2. Development proposals which require new estate roads to be constructed should ensure these roads meet the standards required by Somerset County Council for their adoption. 
3. Development proposals which intend for estate roads to be adopted, will be strongly encouraged, particularly where drainage networks are routed underneath estate roads. This will be secured through the use of appropriate planning conditions. 
4. If development proposals do not provide an intention, through the use of a planning condition, to adopt estate roads, and drainage networks are proposed to be placed under these roads, then the proposals are expected to demonstrate that there are no other reasonable alternative routes or methods for the provision of satisfactory drainage.