A developer is intending to build a new housing estate nearby and because of the local council’s failure a new plan of attack may be needed. Building this off a narrow country lane is going to cause traffic problems during construction, not least to the already poor condition road surface, so could I have help please to answer a few questions:
Assuming a three bedroom house and a proposal for 220 houses. I am trying to work out how many lorry movements would be required to build the estate, all of which will have to pass within six feet of children exiting the local school on foot. The road is a series of blind S bends on which a car and a lorry cannot pass.
How many bricks to build such a house? how many to the tonne?
How many breeze blocks? how many to the tonne?
How many tonnes of sand? (Iknow it’s by the yard but i don’t know tipper body sizes?
Cement? Concrete? Roof tiles? roof trusses? Timber for floors etc?
Sewer pipes, kerbs, flags, basecourse etc relate to the whole site, but some idea of the average numbers to either the tonne or a cap load would help.
To give you an estimate,
1 square metre will require 48 bricks and a standard residential 3-bedroom house of about 340 square metres will take around 16,320 bricks to finish.
Concrete Blocks…55 to the tonne…probably 1tonne bag of sand for around 300 blocks
Denis F:
The lorries driving past the school kids is easy to solve, just get something in the planning permission saying no deliveries at school time !
Or just send drivers with licences who have to deal with situations like this - and worse - on a daily basis.
Seriously, sounds like a NIMBY post to me, stop ya bloody whining
Denis F:
The lorries driving past the school kids is easy to solve, just get something in the planning permission saying no deliveries at school time !
Or just send drivers with licences who have to deal with situations like this - and worse - on a daily basis.
Seriously, sounds like a NIMBY post to me, stop ya bloody whining
cav551:
Assuming a three bedroom house and a proposal for 220 houses.
And you’re worried about the lorries doing deliveries whilst they’re building it which will be for a short period of a couple of months? I’d be worried about the potential 440 journeys 5 days a week by the cars on that estate for the entirety of its life.
cav551:
Assuming a three bedroom house and a proposal for 220 houses.
And you’re worried about the lorries doing deliveries whilst they’re building it which will be for a short period of a couple of months? I’d be worried about the potential 440 journeys 5 days a week by the cars on that estate for the entirety of its life.
I quite agree and the overall permanent increase in traffic is already noted, but I did say the point was to try a different tack. As we know local councils and particularly councillors don’t like lorries because they are thinking all the time about whether they will be re-elected. The thought that just to deliver the bricks alone (thanks koikeeper) requires roughly between 350 and 450 return journeys then added to the cars may make a difference.
The houses are probably inevitable, however the developer refuses to consider an alternative permanent access route, because that would mean constructing a new road across part of land that they have already allocated for another site and hence fewer houses on that site, but would also mean purchasing about 50 yards of land owned by the Police, who know how vital that would be and would value it accordingly.
Denis F:
The lorries driving past the school kids is easy to solve, just get something in the planning permission saying no deliveries at school time !
Or just send drivers with licences who have to deal with situations like this - and worse - on a daily basis.
Seriously, sounds like a NIMBY post to me, stop ya bloody whining
Definitely a Nimby,people forget what their houses are made of,these nimbys are messing with people’s livelihoods, gets right up my nose!!!
cav551:
A developer is intending to build a new housing estate nearby and because of the local council’s failure a new plan of attack may be needed. Building this off a narrow country lane is going to cause traffic problems during construction, not least to the already poor condition road surface, so could I have help please to answer a few questions:
Assuming a three bedroom house and a proposal for 220 houses. I am trying to work out how many lorry movements would be required to build the estate, all of which will have to pass within six feet of children exiting the local school on foot. The road is a series of blind S bends on which a car and a lorry cannot pass.
How many bricks to build such a house? how many to the tonne?
How many breeze blocks? how many to the tonne?
How many tonnes of sand? (Iknow it’s by the yard but i don’t know tipper body sizes?
Cement? Concrete? Roof tiles? roof trusses? Timber for floors etc?
Sewer pipes, kerbs, flags, basecourse etc relate to the whole site, but some idea of the average numbers to either the tonne or a cap load would help.
many thanks.
…at least someone is ‘thinking of the children’ !!
In a 3 bedroom house there are about 10,000 bricks and each pack is just less than 500 so there’ll be about 20 packs per house. Not sure how many packs make up a load of bricks. There’ll be about 10 tonnes of sand per house, it amazes me how much is wasted.
There is a housing estate being built near me. They started it in 2006 and it is still on going. Those that bought the first phase have had seven years of lorries etc driving past their front doors and will have a few more years yet.
I would also be more concerned about the amount of cars blocking the area at school time when the mums pick their little bas, errr darlings up, long after the trucks have gone.
Quinny:
I would also be more concerned about the amount of cars blocking the area at school time when the mums pick their little bas, errr darlings up, long after the trucks have gone.
Ken.
I would be more worried about 220 three bedroom houses, that should breed about 3 drug dealers, 4 rapists, two motorcycle thieves and a sheep shagger within 12 years.
On the other hand the OP could be thinking that the job at Jewsons down the road might be worth having even on minimum wage.
Packs of bricks vary in size some have 400 some 1000. On average our Artics with roller cranes can get 10000-10500. Apart from bricks you have blocks,tiles,timber pipes, Tarmac, block paving, sand, stone, muckaway etc
One site I delivered to this week had 53 deliveries penciled in over 2 days and I don’t think that included tippers.
Is it possible to build a new road for the new housing estate.This could be used for Lgv deliveries.
The new Morrisons at Bridgwater is an example of this.
The delivery trucks were going past front doors if new houses by a few feet.
But now there is new bridge to access the RDC.
I have not heard of residents complaining about the trucks.
Once your new site is built,there is parcel van deliveries for internet sales and pallet deliveries.
New garage door will come by a lorry.
DIY projects such as sand and cement will come by a lorry.
Garden furniture,play ground equipment.
Heating oil by a tanker.
Royal Mail vans and lorries for big parcels.
Once built,lorries wont stop going there.You have created lorry traffic.
