Michlow Drive, Bradwell
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Value: | Northern Counties Housing
Association
Michael Hyde Associates
September 2006
£1,100,000 |
Project Description
The construction of twelve, three bedroom houses. They were traditionally built with cavity walls consisting of Davey blocks (concrete block with natural stone façade) and pebbledash with natural slate roofs and dry stone walling to boundaries to comply with Peak District planning requirements.
The project also involved an adopted road and new sewers.
Challenges
Despite being a farmer's field for many hundreds of years, the site investigation showed the ground to have a high lead content. This is very common in Derbyshire but due to the new contaminated ground legislation, it was classified as contaminated land. It was necessary therefore, to provide a 450mm thick capping of clean certified layer of imported topsoil to all soft landscape and garden areas.
The site also had problems with achieving the maximum outfall for the surface water as required by Severn Trent Water Authority.
It was therefore necessary to install Atlantis Plastic Storm cells by Aldeburgh to store the water sufficiently to enable the maximum outfall rate to be achieved.
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