LAND & PROPERTY Land Development Services Motherwell, Scotland
Project Summary
Land Development Services Confidential Client, Motherwell
Key Project Elements • Phase II Site Investigation • Remedial Strategy • Regulator Liaison • Waste Management License Exemption
CRA was commissioned by a major UK developer to assist with the redevelopment of a 50-acre site in Motherwell. The site comprised undeveloped greenfield land, a former scrap yard and a former petrol station and was to be redeveloped as a distribution centre. Further to this, the site was underlain by former worked coal workings. CRA’s role during the project comprised as follows: •
• Environmental Validation
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• Soil Remediation Specification
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• Roundabout Environmental Risk Assessment •
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Targeted Environmental Site Assessments in the areas around the former scrap yard and petrol station in order to identify any potential environmental concerns and liabilities prior to acquisition of the site by CRA’s client; An Environmental Risk Assessment and a remedial strategy based on the results of the site investigations, which were used to assist CRA’s client gaining planning permission for the site; Successful application for a Waste Management License (WML) exemption for soils that were to be excavated as part of the site re-development enabling works. Excavation of the soils meant that they were classified as waste. By obtaining a WML Exemption, CRA negated the need for its client to require a costly Waste Management License; Validation of site contractors’ appropriate environmental site management (e.g. storage of hazardous substances), appropriate management of hydrocarbon-impacted soils and appropriate installation of a geo-membrane contamination liner in a drainage ditch located within the former scrap yard; Testing of soils excavated during the enabling works; Provision and validation of a soil specification to the main contractor for the remediation of hydrocarbon-impacted soils; and A combined ground gas, human health and groundwater risk assessment, which was required as part of the planning conditions for a roundabout that was constructed along the main road located along the site’s southern boundary.
Ref: PS0029