Link Engineering was delighted to support its client, Barnfield Construction in agreeing the new access arrangement with Lancashire County Council from our Manchester office.

The proposed development consisted of a new food store on Hyndburn Road, Accrington, with the new access provided through the provision of a new ghost right turn into the site with pedestrian/cyclist improvements along the western boundary.

Once planning consent had been granted, Link completed the detailed highway design associated with the proposed access and other highway improvements required as part of the planning permission. We played a key role in engaging with Lancashire County Council Highways to agree the design principles, value engineering solutions and complete the detailed design to support a S278 Agreement. 

Verda Park is a net zero carbon commercial development in Wallingford, South Oxfordshire. Link was delighted to work on this project which has outstanding sustainability features. We initially supported the client team in providing due diligence support pre-purchase. Post-purchase, we supported the project through planning, providing transportation advice. 

Once planning consent had been granted, we completed the detailed highway design associated with the proposed access and planning obligations for highway improvements. We played a key role in engaging with Oxfordshire County Council to agree the design principles and complete the detailed design to support a S278 Agreement.  

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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.

Link was appointed to support BAM Construction with the associated offsite S278 works relating to the construction of the Derby Cathedral School, Derby. Offsite works were to involve the full detailed design and technical approval with Derby City Council of the following packages of works;

• Site Access works consisting of a new give way priority bellmouth, including alterations to the existing footway and modifications to the existing Traffic Regulation Order. 
• Junction improvement to the offsite junction between Great Northern Road and Uttoxeter Old Road to the west of the development area, predominantly in the form of modification to the existing road markings to improve junction visibility. 
• Junction alterations to the Great Northern Road and Uttoxeter New Road arrangement to provide improved junction capacity as this is the principal route to the School, as per the General Arrangement extract below. 

Works on all three areas of offsite modifications included Civil 3D, pavement, drainage, signage and street lighting designs including an assessment of existing utility apparatus potentially affected by the works, submitted for Technical Approval by Derby City Council. Stage 2 Road Safety Audit was to be completed to support Technical Approval as necessary at the appropriate time. 

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.