NEW BUILD APARTMENTS Our brief in this instance was to generate proposals for the development of this rather delapidated building (below.) Due to the passage of time and lack of maintainence this building had become a safety hazard and consequently been out of use for several years. We sought guidance from the Local Planning Authority as to the measure of development potential and drew up several outline planning permission schemes for their perusal. Once approved in principal we submitted a number of pre-planning application schemes to establish a suitable proposal for our formal planning application. The result of which was the approval and subsequent construction of the three storey block of apartments shown right.

Illustrations showing the extent of the demolition works. Remedial works associated with adjoining buidings was limited primarily to catering for foul water drainage and a limited amount of re-pointing.

Illustrations showing the extent of the demolition works. Illustrations showing the extent of the demolition works.

Illustrations showing the extent of the demolition works. Illustrations showing the extent of the demolition works.

Due to the low lying nature of the land around Stamford, the water table in this particular area was less than two metres below ground level. We therfore had to provide all the necessary foul water drainage for all three units without decending below the water table. A gravity drainage system was therefore very rapidly ruled out in preference of a pumped sewage system. A separate pump house with several holding tanks had to be designed and constructed within the boundary of the overall site which would be sufficiently remote from the properties yet suitably accessible for drainage tankers. This proved to be a quandrous task bearing in mind the aforementioned and the above illustrates our final compromise position showing the pump house in the foreground with unit one in the distance.