Att5 - Traffic Impact Report

3           Parking Assessment
3.1         Council Requirements
Under the Noosa Planning Scheme, as the proposal is primarily for the purpose of accommodating School
Camps, the land use is undefined.
As such, there is no applicable car parking provision requirement rate under the Planning Scheme and an
empirical assessment is provided.

3.2         Empirical Assessment of Parking Demand: First Principles
Adopting a ‘first principles’ approach to car parking, the following are noted:
         The 300 campers and support staff from their school will arrive by bus.
         The 50 camp staff, working on the site, will arrive by private vehicle.
Assuming 25% of staff car‐pool, due to the site location and demographic of camp staff, it is anticipated
that there will be a demand for 38 staff cars.
Campers and associated teaching staff are expected to travel to site by bus. Adopting an occupancy of
55 persons per bus, a total of seven (7) buses are anticipated, as follows:
         Village 1:            100 persons:          2 buses.
         Village 2:            140 persons:          3 buses.
         Village 3:            60 persons:           2 buses.
The following summarises the anticipated parking demand:
         38 car parks.
         7 bus parks.

3.3         Empirical Assessment of Parking Demand: Luther Heights
BMC Traffic was involved in providing traffic and car parking advice for a similar camp facility, at
Luther Heights. As part of those works, car parking demand surveys were undertaken of the site
operations.

The recorded peak (typical) car parking demand was 0.122 spaces / bed1.
Application of this car parking rate to the proposed 300 bed facility anticipates a parking demand of
37 spaces. This is comparable to the first principles assumptions approach, outlined above.


1
    There was a performance on the site during the surveys which parents were invited to attend. As the site operators have confirmed there will
    be no performances at this site, the car parking data for this outlier event has not been included.




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