At a Glance
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£400M
Transformation
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200
Acre Site
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1,450
New Homes
- Location
- Locking, North Somerset, England
- Offices
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Client
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St Modwen
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Architect
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Stride Treglown (Phase 2)
- Location
- Locking, North Somerset, England
- Offices
- Client
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- St Modwen
- Architect
- Stride Treglown (Phase 2)
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St Modwen, the UK’s leading regeneration specialist, set out on a £400 million ($xx million) scheme to redevelop a 200-acre (81-hectare) former Royal Air Force training facility site near Weston-Super-Mare. They engaged our team to provide multidisciplinary engineering services.
Our role included detailed design services for Phase 3, comprising 168 houses, and the pre-planning appraisal for Phase 4, which comprises 140 houses. We have also supported St Modwen with technical advice on the design of a spine road that will lead through the site to land being developed by North Somerset Council, as well as delivering a site-wide drainage strategy.
Our civil engineering team provided planning and design input to highways, drainage, and site profiling. We have also undertaken ground investigations and provided transport planning, flood risk advice, and utility management strategy.
One of the most challenging features of the site are the rhynes—drainage canals used to convert areas of wetland into useful pasture. Used extensively in the Somerset Levels, the rhynes offer an ideal outlet for surface water drainage, but they aren’t particularly deep and usually remain wet. This means that we had to introduce a combination of land raising and shallow surcharged drainage to facilitate the new development.
The mixed-use development, which is expected to take 20 years to complete, will provide 1,450 new homes over 12 phases, employment space, and a district centre including retail space. There will also be a primary and secondary school, leisure and community facilities, and a library.
" }At a Glance
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£400M
Transformation
-
200
Acre Site
-
1,450
New Homes
- Location
- Locking, North Somerset, England
- Offices
-
-
Client
-
-
St Modwen
-
-
Architect
-
Stride Treglown (Phase 2)
- Location
- Locking, North Somerset, England
- Offices
- Client
-
- St Modwen
- Architect
- Stride Treglown (Phase 2)