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The devil is always in the detail. This scheme of 30 affordable dwellings by Longhurst Group at Newborough was the subject of a detailed application. Peterborough City Council are the local highway authority, and their exacting highway requirements, in the absence of a design guide, led to multiple alterations of the housing layout as we adjusted footways, carriageway widths, car parking numbers and locations, road types, refuse vehicle tracking, and bin storage. The scheme is finally over the line and approved at committee. Layout by Saunders Boston Architects.

Following last year’s resolution to grant consent, detailed negotiations have been finalised, the S106 Agreement signed, and planning consent has been granted for the redevelopment of Ironbridge Power Station. That is a significant step along the process of delivering the new development, now called Benthall Grange. Over that last year, we have been working with Harworth and their team designing the S278 works. We are designing the earthworks, highways, and drainage infrastructure that will deliver Phase 1. You can follow progress on Harworth’s new website.

Golby + Luck are a respected landscape architects practice with a head office in Ibstock. Wishing to expand, and stay in the area, they applied for a new office building at Coleorton. Consent was granted by North West Leicestershire District Council second time around on 6 October 2022. We are grateful to have been entrusted to support the application. Our flood risk and drainage advice focussed on the attenuation ponds, addressing local concerns about flooding. Our highways advice had to overcome objections about the narrow width of Moor Lane, and safety concerns about its junction with the A512. We are very pleased that G+L have been successful and wish them all the best as they now construct and occupy their wonderful new premises.

ADC are delighted to announce that Tim Cooke has joined our Transport Planning service as Technical Director.

Welcome to ADC Tim, its a pleasure having you on board.

This year’s East Midlands Property Dinner went down well again, as we took a table to thank our colleagues for their hard work.

… for winning the Sustainable Development of the Year at last night’s East Midlands Property Dinner.

ADC are delighted to announce the arrival of Ashley Thomas who has joined ADC’s Infrastructure Design service as Graduate Engineer.

Welcome to ADC Ashley!

We are pleased to report that the North Northamptonshire Area Planning (Kettering) Committee have approved a scheme we have been working on at Stamford Road in Geddington. On behalf of Larkfleet Homes we provided Flood Risk & Drainage and Transport Planning services. Although at minimal risk from fluvial flooding, there is a significant overland flow path that crosses the site from north to south following the natural topography of the land. Hence, the surface water discharge strategy is to discharge into the drainage ditch adjacent to Stamford Road. Attenuation is proposed via a combination of a below ground tank along the northern site boundary, and a detention basin in the north-east corner of the site.

A project for VPK Holdings on Harborough Road in Desborough has been approved. The outline application sought consent for a new 240 space car park and 32 space lorry/trailer park for VPK, on land adjacent to their existing unit, plus 20,000sqm of speculative B2/B8 development. The application was supported by our Transport Assessment and Travel Plan. It was complicated by various committed developments in the area, and difficulties with obtaining representative traffic flows to assess impact. Initially we were prevented from collecting new data by Covid, meaning we relied on 2017 and 2018 counts. Then, when new counts were allowed, we were required to use the worst of the 2017, 2018, and 2021 counts, at each junction assessed, uplifted by growth factors to 2031, with committed development traffic added. Much persistence paid off, with the local highway authority eventually accepting the results and conclusions of our analysis. Masterplan by Berrys.