As one of the UK’s leading teams of Geoenvironmental consultants, we work with clients and their project teams to provide advice that is practical, commercially aware and technically robust with an outcome-focused approach. Our specialist Geoenvironmental team were appointed to provide a full range of geoenvironmental services and advice on the Brockhampton West Landfill Site based in Havant, where development of logistics warehouses are underway.
To date the scope of works completed by Delta-Simons has included:
- Preliminary Geoenvironmental Risk Assessment
- Detailed Geoenvironmental Ground Investigation & Risk Assessments incl:
- Ground gases
- Ground contamination
- Groundwater & adjacent protected stream
- Geotechnical
- Surface Water Quality Monitoring
- Soil Quality Assessments (For Reuse)
- Remediation Strategy & Options Appraisal Report
- Detailed waste management advice including a Materials Management Plan
- Construction Environmental Management Plan – Pollution Control
Contract Challenges
Exton Estates on behalf of Clowes Developments (UK) Ltd is developing a former 9 ha landfill Site into two industrial logistics warehouse units. This project is complex in nature given the site’s historical use as an unlined domestic landfill dating from the 1970s to 1980s and its environmental setting (a Principal Chalk Aquifer and nearby sensitive and protected stream/harbour). As such, the project involved extensive negotiation with both key regulators (Environment Agency & Local Authority) and the clients wider project team to ensure geoenvironmental risks were duly considered in support of the planning application. Substantial negotiation with the Environment Agency was also required to maximise the reuse and recovery of site-derived materials during the development works.
Our Solution
Successful approval of complex assessments:
The deliverables of our work were under significant scrutiny by the Regulators due to the sensitivity of the site and the significant contamination risks associated with former landfill. This drive for high quality outputs in conjunction with proactive engagement with key regulators from an early stage in the project culminated in successful approval of the detailed ground risk assessment and remedial strategy for the site by the Regulators (Environment Agency, Natural England, Local Authority). Planning approval has also recently been granted by the Local Planning Authority.
On time, on cost delivery:
As this was a development led project, delivery timescales were extremely important. Delta-Simons ensured that project timescales were met by allocating appropriate resources to the project. This avoided the risk of cost overrun whilst ensuring that the Regulators requirements were also catered for alongside high-quality delivery.
