RFI - Appendix C Traffic Engineering Report · MCU22/0038

 Stockwell Development Group Pty Ltd                                                               SLR Ref: 620.30769-L01-v0.2 IR Response
 Noosaville Hofmann Drive Medical Centre                                                                                   20220520.docx
 NSC Information Request                                                                                                Date: 20 May 2022
 Response to Traffic Matters



From tenancy information provided by Stockwell, it is anticipated that approximately 30 medical practitioners
will practice out of the medical centre. To determine the parking demand that the above tenancy characteristics
will generate, Table 2 below has been provided which describes the number of medical practitioners expected
to be at the medical centre at any one time (adjusted with the occupancy factor), plus it applies a rate of 3
parking spaces per medical practitioner to determine a realistic ‘First Principles’ parking demand.

Table 2      First Principles – Calculations
                                               Number of                       Number of               Number of parking spaces
 Land Use       Component                  Practitioners (Total            Practitioners (at any          (based on rate of 3
                                           capacity/tenancy)                    one time)             spaces/medical practitioner)

                General Practice                    8                               6                                 18

                Pathology                           2                               2                                  6
                Dental                              3                               2                                  6
                Physiotherapy                       2                               2                                  6
                Radiology                           2                               2                                  6
 Medical
                Specialist                          3                               2                                  6
 Centre
                Cosmetic / Plastic
                                                    1                               1                                  3
                Surgery
                Eye Surgery                         2                               1                                  3
                Psychology                          2                               2                                  6
                Podiatry                            1                               1                                  3
                Allied Health                       4                               4                                 12
 Total                                             30                               25                                75

The resultant total number of parking spaces required based on a ‘First Principles’ approach equates to
approximately 75 parking spaces. However, SLR suggests that it would be appropriate to apply a 20% factor of
safety to this calculation given that the specific tenancy arrangements are not resolved at this time. Hence the
calculated first principles rate inclusive of a 20% factor of safety is 90 spaces.

Council’s superseded planning scheme describes the minimum vehicle parking requirements for a Commercial
business, Type 2 – Medical as ‘1 space per 20m2, or part thereof, of use area; OR 3 spaces per medical practitioner
whichever is the greater’. As per SLR’s Traffic Impact Statement dated 16 March 2022, applying the ‘1 space per
20m2’ rate to the total GFA of 2,170m2 equates to approximately 109 spaces. When applying a rate of ‘3 spaces
per medical practitioner’ to the total number of medical practitioners, this results in a requirement to provide
90 parking spaces.

To provide a comparison of the three varied parking demand outcomes as per above, these results are replicated
below:
          Council’s superseded planning scheme rate of 1 space/20m2 = 109 spaces required;
          Council’s superseded planning scheme rate of 3 spaces/MP = 90 spaces required;
          SLR’s ‘First Principles’ approach = 75 spaces required, factored to 90 spaces including the factor of
           safety.




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