We provided input into the transport aspects of masterplanning Design Codes for the area of Sandgate Street, Verney Road and Old Kent Road within the Old Kent Road masterplan for the London Borough of Southwark.

Design codes develop the masterplan in a greater level of detail, setting out the design principles to be followed by developers to gain planning consent.

This involved working with Farrells masterplanners to review the streets and places hierarchy for the area in terms of transport and movement, mapping servicing access and routes, providing multi-modal access maps for walking, cycling, public transport, logistics and vehicular access and advising on designs for typical street sections and walking and cycling routes through green spaces.

Our work helped to plan better connections for pedestrians and cyclists to a proposed linear park along the alignment of Verney Road and improve north-south connections between Verney Road and Old Kent Road. These proposed improvements will help to revitalise Old Kent Road as a high street and allow for intensification of the development, providing homes, workplaces, shops and leisure uses.

We carried out a traffic and urban realm study to improve pedestrian accessibility and connectivity between Elephant Park and Victory Community Park in Southwark.

We undertook traffic counts and mapped traffic displacement to assess several options for the link between the parks including one-ways, improving pedestrian priority with a raised crossing point and a road closure. Options were assessed against their impacts on safety, different road users including pedestrians, cyclists, motor vehicles, buses and access to neighbouring developments. We ranked the options in terms of which would best provide a safe and attractive pedestrian link between the parks and support the aims of LB Southwark’s Movement Plan to reduce traffic and improve people’s experience of the street whilst having limited impact on local surrounding roads.

Momentum Transport Consultancy is working with Abellio Greater Anglia to deliver part of their ambitious programme of station renovations. Momentum is going to develop pedestrian models on a number of stations including Wickford, Witham, Bury St Edmunds, Audley End, Hertford East and Stansted Airport.

Most of these stations are within London’s commuter belt and experience tidal commuter flows that require careful balance between the provision of adequate facilities for the best possible travel experience and stations that do not feel empty or over-dimensioned during quieter times. Stansted Airport is different, since it represents the gateway to a major international airport and passengers are mostly visitors and airline passengers, generating different travel patterns, distributed during the day in accordance with flight schedules.

Momentum is developing passengers’ surveys and station models for Greater Anglia, both static and dynamic (using Legion Spaceworks) to assess the performance of stations both in the existing conditions and considering future demand. The key aim of this work is to provide the functional requirements for station redevelopments such as number of ticket gates required, crowding on platform, concourse area and dimension of circulation spaces. Proposals are fully compliant with the Network Rail ‘Station Capacity Planning Guidance’, November 2016.

Momentum Transport Consultancy were appointed by Ocubis in 2013 to provide transport planning and highway design services for the site that previously accommodated the Norwich Union employees sports club and grounds.  The appointment also included the redevelopment of land at Griffin Lane for affordable housing with both sites linked through a common Section 106 agreement.

The main Pinebanks site had the benefit of a planning permission granted by Broadlands District Council for 231 dwellings in June 2013 but it became necessary for Ocubis to vary the access arrangements for the Pinebanks site via a Section 73 application.  It was necessary to apply for the variation of the site access planning condition so that the main housing site could operate through a single access road and not the two access roads for the extant permission where one of these would be difficult to achieve due to a long-term restrictive covenant.

The revised planning permission was achieved in 2015 which enabled a new master plan layout to be developed which Momentum supported with extensive junction capacity modelling and highway design along with further trip generation studies in line with Norfolk County Council requirements.

Momentum provided full consultancy support to help deliver seven industrial units comprising a total 28,089sqm GEA of flexible industrial use (Class E(g)(iii), Class B2 and B8) with ancillary office space, parking and associated works including creation of service yards, boundary treatments and landscaping.

Due to the location of the site, innovative and complex transport solutions were required to unlock the development to facilitate movements through the site and onwards through the wider highway network. The proposed vehicular access to the site will be primarily via the existing Goat Road access, which has been enhanced to better serve the Jewson’s site and the proposed development site through a robust junction modelling assessment, and the development of a highway design package developed by the Momentum team.

Momentum has also played a pivotal role promoting innovative sustainable solutions to serve the development site, this includes a commitment to provide an improved access to the site for pedestrians and cyclists via Drake Road.

As part of the scheme, Momentum has worked in close collaboration with key stakeholders to develop a new roundabout to replace the existing Goat Road / Carshalton Road (A237) junction. Informed by traffic modelling, the solution was welcomed at the public consultation.

Each unit is proposed to have a provision of car and cycle parking to cater for staff and visitors, in compliance with the standards set out in the London Plan (2021). In total, the proposed development would provide a minimum of 30 short-stay and 66 long-stay cycle parking spaces, and a maximum of 176 car parking spaces.

Omniserve, a subsidiary company of ABM, is known for providing innovative passenger, security and operational efficiency services at Heathrow and other international airports such as Dallas and Orlando airport, due in part to the use of modern tablet technology to help provide a responsive service.

Testament to our reputation for delivering high quality passenger services for some of the largest airports across the UK, Momentum supported Omniserve in their 2014 BID to operate the air-side bus services for passengers at Heathrow. Experts in this field, we developed the spreadsheet modelling tool that included forecast growth, variations in schedules and the demand forecasting across a standard day and for peak requirements.

All of which contributed to a successful bid submission which resulted in Omniserve being appointed to service Heathrow for 5 years.

The Stage is a mixed-use development located in Shoreditch comprising of a number of buildings surrounding the archaeological remains of the Curtain Theatre. Its construction takes place across a number of phases requiring a complex logistics strategy that takes account of the changing layout throughout the build programme as well as other construction activity in the area and neighbouring uses.

Momentum provided construction logistics support services to Multiplex during the early works phase of the project including the production of a Construction Logistics Plan. Led by our team of planners and engineers, we successfully undertook vehicle tracking for the site layout and various access points to determine constraints, appropriate gate layouts and slab design. Momentum also undertook vertical tracking of the site to ascertain ground and height clearance when accessing the building during construction.

This informed the site layout to incorporate suitable loading and turning areas. Momentum proactively engaged with the London Borough of Hackney to agree the logistics strategy and arrange required road closures, highway licenses, parking suspensions and enabling highway works, including the necessary improved highway design. Momentum also supported the pit lane preparation providing preliminary highway design works, tracking and pit lane layout drawings. These were prepared in liaison with the London Borough of Newham to ensure sufficient precautions were in place to minimise the predicted disruption during the course of construction among the neighbouring roads and arteries surrounding the scheme.

During 2013 we supported Wembley Stadium with integrated operational transport plans, highway operations and the management of pedestrian movement for all major events hosted at the stadium – and the 2013 Champions League Final was no exception.

The senior team at Momentum was responsible for the development and delivery of the successful Transport & Mobility plan for the inaugural UEFA Champions League Final at the new Wembley Stadium in May 2011.

The event was considered so successful that UEFA returned for the 2013 Final as part of the Football Association’s 150th anniversary celebrations. Momentum was delighted to be appointed to prepare and deliver the Transport & Mobility Plan for the final on the 25th May 2013, working with our UEFA and Wembley Stadium colleagues, the London Airports, other transport stakeholders and the Police Services.

The plan included developing close working relationships with the semi-finalist teams and with the official travel clubs of the finalist teams. Our team were responsible for overseeing the transport strategy on the day of the final and supervising a team of Transport Volunteers. We are delighted the 2013 Transport & Mobility Plan has been as successful as for UEFA Champions League Final 2011.

Beginning with our involvement on the original bid in 2005, through to the planning and operations, the Momentum team were involved at every stage of the London 2012 Olympics.

Our team was responsible for generating demand forecasts for the Games Family, spectators and workforce. Our role during the London Olympics also involved developing plans for the proposed Park & Ride facilities whilst working in partnership with the London Underground to implement enhanced strategies to improve passenger and pedestrian movement among stations within the local and wider Stratford area.

Momentum is working with Ocubis on the conversion of a vacant plot in the vibrant area of Shoreditch to provide a new hotel providing up to 145 rooms which will also provide an exciting new restaurant which will be open to the public.

The site is constrained by neighbouring buildings and access to the site is limited to the Paul Street frontage. As a result, there is limited space to deliver an efficient hotel operation alongside an active frontage that enhances the local area.

Our initial involvement on the project included providing transport advice, design guidance and further operational support on the Paul Street hotel project. We helped to develop an initial off-site servicing access strategy, which included servicing vehicle swept path assessments, and conducted a technical review and survey of on-street parking conditions surrounding the development site.

We were later recommissioned by the client to provide support for the submission of a formal planning application for the site redevelopment. Our workstreams have included the preparation of a Transport Assessment (TA), Trip Generation and Impact Assessment, Framework Delivery and Servicing Plan (DSP), Interim Travel Plan (TP) and Construction Logistics Plan (CLP).

The main challenge in this project is the space limitations and access constraints around the site. Therefore, we have developed an on-street delivery and servicing strategy for the hotel, which integrates into the existing highway network using the spare parking capacity demonstrated in parking beat surveys to justify this arrangement.

The planning application was submitted in June 2018 and received resolution to grant planning consent by London Borough of Hackney’s Planning Committee in February 2019