Churston Golf Club - Residential
Clarkebond is providing traffic and transportation, civil engineering, utilities, drainage, flood risk and geoenvironmental services to the site, as well as support in the public and stakeholder consultation process to the proposed development of around 90 new houses and a 70 bed Extra Care Home. The development is proposed for the site of the current Churston Golf Club House and 1st and 18th holes, with the relocation of these facilities to a new site adjacent to the Golf Course, within the Churston AONB.
The transport input has required redistribution on the network of the existing golf course traffic, allowance for displaced school traffic and assignment of the newly generated traffic to the network. This has been supplemented by a rigorous assessment of non-car accessibility to the site, and the inclusion of measures to deliver a high standard of pedestrian and cycle accessibility. The focus has been on making best use of existing facilities and providing links to and through the site from those facilities, as well as delivering 'missing links' in the non-car travel network across the wider area, where these relate specifically to access to the site.
Significant preliminary design work has also been undertaken to ensure that the proposals can be constructed and accommodate all appropriate movement across the network, by all classes of vehicle likely to be encountered. This also has included a construction and levels review for the site to ensure that level access is achieved and that the design is the most economic at the preliminary submission stage.
The GeoEnvironmental assessment has required a significant ground investigation study to be undertaken due to known concerns with rock level and inclusions which represent a foundation risk and issues with a Sustainable Drainage Strategy. Discussions with the Council and the Environment Agency have identified a drainage strategy that achieves the objectives of PPS 25 without risk to ground stability or flooding.
A full utilities assessment has been undertaken identifying points of connection, diversion and protection issues and costs, capacity available and reinforcement costs. This has included site discussions with providers to agree lowest cost solutions and design amendments to provide integrated 'Value Engineering' at preplanning stage.
Services: pre-planning, transportation, flood risk assessment, civil, structural and geoenvironmental engineering