Link was appointed by the Solent NHS trust to support the construction of the North Harbour Medical Centre. Our role included delivering a detailed Section 278 (S278) design and securing technical approval for the egress, along with amendments to the existing footway and bus stop.

As part of the project, we also designed and obtained approval for modifications to Northern Road, London Road, and St George’s Road to improve the northbound right-turn facility. This involved creating a ghost right-turn junction and widening the carriageway.

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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. 

Link was appointed by Ashfield Land to undertake the S278 design for the highway improvement works associated with a proposed Lidl store to be constructed on Droitwich Road, Worcester. The Link team took forward this scheme following the transport planning work undertaken by Link’s affiliate company mode transport planning. This relationship was beneficial in understanding the background to the site and how the planning approved highway layout had been determined.

The works involved constructing a new bellmouth into the proposed Lidl car park, provision of a new bellmouth access/egress for the adjoining JVM Castings commercial unit and widening works to Droitwich Road to incorporate a new ghost right turn and removal of the existing bus lane. Link’s role was to undertake the detailed design of these highway works before taking them through the technical approval process with the highway authority. 

This commission also included Link supporting the contractor on site with any technical issues during the construction process.

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.