Link was appointed by Countryside Properties to provide civil engineering services for their proposed development of Hall Green Road, West Bromwich. The scope of services was to cover planning through to detailed design for a proposed residential development of 223 dwellings. Link were engaged to provide planning input in relation to drainage and highways in order to provide sufficient information to satisfy the local planning authority in order to facilitate the granting of planning permission for the site. 

Link’s role post achievement of planning permission was agreed to include producing the detailed design packages to enable S104 and S278/38 packages to be submitted to Severn Trent Water and Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Highways respectively. Taking these applications through to technical approval to facilitate the future adoption of the drainage and highway infrastructure. In addition to this, Link’s were asked to provide the private levels and drainage designs for the plots themselves.

The proposed development in this project was part of the allocated housing provision for Stafford. The site extended to 175 hectares and the £400 million development was to include up to 2,000 dwellings, local centres, 2 schools with supporting green infrastructure, highways and associated works.

Link Engineering was appointed by Maximus to produce a Flood Risk and Drainage Technical Note to outline and support the proposals at the Planning Committee and to address concerns raised by local residents.

The scheme included a residential development of 8.04 hectares of land for up to 190 dwellings, with new highway access from Inglewhite Road, public open space and associated infrastructure.

Link were appointed by Barratt & David Wilson homes to design and obtain technical approval for the access arrangements and offsite highway improvements.

Link’s involvement included engaging and meeting with Lancashire Highways to review site constraints and agree layout variations. Our team completed detailed design including pavement construction, geometry and street lighting to support a S278 agreement. Works also included footway widening along development frontage and enhanced cycleway links into the development.

Building on established relationships, Link were appointed to assist Redlawn Land Limited (a joint venture between Milton Keynes Council and L&Q Estates) to design the strategic infrastructure to support the delivery of the Western Expansion Area in Milton Keynes.

The work included the design of roads and drainage infrastructure in the Area 10 South part of the development to support the delivery of 1,500 homes, a primary school and community facilities.

Due to the historic nature of the site, in order to successfully deliver the project our team at Link assimilated and processed a vast amount of data in a short space of time.

Link worked proactively with the client team with a regular dialogue via technical workshops and interaction with Milton Keynes Council and the water authority, Anglian Water Services. This engagement led to the generation of several significant value engineering options including reduction in roundabout sizing and rationalising drainage proposals.

Link were appointed by Keepmoat Homes to prepare and obtain S278 Technical Approval for a 40m ICD roundabout as the primary access off Stallings Lane for the mixed use Residential (Keepmoat) and Commercial (Helical PLC) in Kingswinford.

The proposed detailed design was to be in accordance with Design Manual for Roads and Bridges and Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council design standards in line with the consented planning applications details, including: