A former timber yard located off North Street, Barking received planning permission for redevelopment into residential use including houses with private gardens, apartment blocks and communal amenity space (including a children’s playground).
Lustre Consulting was appointed to undertake a Phase 2 Site Investigation to work towards discharging a planning condition. The investigation comprised window sample boreholes up to 5m deep across the site focusing on the condition of the Made Ground in proposed private gardens, the children’s playground and shallow groundwater in the gravels, all of which were identified as the main pollution risks. The soil and groundwater testing found widespread contamination in the Made Ground comprising PAHs, metals, asbestos (fragments) and a localised oil ‘hotspot’ that had migrated into the shallow groundwater.
Lustre Consulting was subsequently commissioned to develop a Remediation Strategy to mitigate the contamination risks including an engineered capping layer in landscaped areas, removal of the localised oil ‘hotspot’ and localised groundwater monitoring/ remediation. All stages of the investigation and remediation works were successfully approved by the local Contaminated Land Officer and the Environment Agency.
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A surface water soakaway is used to capture then allow the infiltration and filtration of water runoff through a subsoil to the water table below. Your soakaway should provide sufficient short-term storage of surface water and allow the surface water to percolate into the surrounding ground. The National House-Building Council (NHBC) provides detailed guidance on […]
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Working on a construction project can come with a long ‘to do’ list. Not only that, but you have to deal with the stress of navigating planning conditions as well as numerous building regulations. Acoustic issues don’t have to further complicate this process. Could an Acoustic Assessment be a requirement for your site? Of all […]
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Contamination is not always something that can be seen; often contamination is invisible, buried below ground or is present in perfectly normal looking topsoil.
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