Site Selection and Appraisal

Site Selection and Appraisal

Site Selection and Appraisal

Site Selection and Appraisal

The ability to accurately assess the true value of any acquisition or asset is pivotal in the decision making process of any scheme.

As your partner, we support you with technical advice across all engineering disciplines to inform development appraisals, regeneration strategies and asset repositioning.

With experience crossing all sectors of the built environment, from Green/brownfield sites to city centre development sites and major urban regeneration, our technical guidance and consultancy services provide you with robust feasibility and viability assessments to help unlock development sites and add value.

Our expertise spans from Transport, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical and Environmental Consultancy through to Structures and Building Services. We offer highly experienced advice at pace, fully engaging with your team to explore every option. We have embedded holistic sustainability and social impact into the core of our services and will support your Environmental and Social Governance aims and performance targets in response to climate change.

Mark Terndrup

Mark Terndrup
Managing Director
Building Services – South
Tel: +44 207 928 7888

email: mark.terndrup@watermangroup.com

Net Zero &
Sustainability

We ensure sustainability and net zero principals are embedded in every project at every opportunity

Site Selection
& Appraisal

The ability to accurately assess the true value of any acquisition or asset is pivotal in the decision making process of any scheme.

Planning &
Design

Exemplary designs need the best site teams to bring them to life, and we take great pride in helping you realise your vision.

Construction & Development

We cover all sectors and span all engineering and environmental disciplines, bringing the right expertise at each stage.

Operation &
Asset Management

Our in–house expertise provides you with a total solution to help you manage and operate your assets.

Divestment

We recognise the need to optimise the value of your assets whether they are newly constructed properties or existing building stock.

Project Lifecycle Support

We enjoyed working with Tom Wells and his knowledgeable EIA team and they provided a key role in the successful conclusion of our planning application with the London Borough of Hackney.

Barry Rankin, Development Manager, Summix Capital Ltd.

Key Services

Acoustics, Noise and Vibration
Contaminated Land Advice
Air Quality, Dust and Odour
Flood Risk Assessment
Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUDs)
Archaeology and Built Heritage
Landscape planning and design
Waste advice, permit and planning
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Ecology
Corporate and Property Due Diligence
Transport Modelling
Sustainable Transport and Travel Plan advice
Bridge Design
Highways
Rail Engineering
Health & Safety / Principal Designer
Utilities and Infrastructure advice

Geotechnical studies / investigations
Structural advice / surveys and due diligence reports
Building Services advice / surveys and due diligence reports
Public Health advice / surveys and due diligence reports
Smart Technology
Vertical Transport
Energy strategies and renewables advice
Embodied Carbon studies, Operational Carbon and Whole
Life Carbon, advice
Circular economy and material passports
Climate Resilience
Sustainability Statements
Energy Performance Certificates and NABERS Assessments
BREEAM and WELL

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Featured Project

Graven Hill is a unique 187 ha development located just to the south of Bicester, Oxfordshire, and will become the UK’s largest self-build housing scheme.

Outline planning is in place for up to 1,900 new self-build homes, along with a new village centre with local amenities and employment space. The site will also accommodate 1,000,000 sq ft of commercial space and create up to 2,000 new jobs. The first ten self-build homes to be built were featured in Kevin McCloud’s Channel 4 series, Grand Designs in the summer of 2019.

Waterman was appointed in January 2013 to provide full engineering and environmental consultancy services to the project. Our ongoing involvement with the scheme includes ground engineering, land contamination and remediation, sustainable drainage and SuDS, highways and infrastructure, traffic and transportation, ecology, landscape, archaeology and heritage, air quality and noise.

“Waterman has played a key role in securing planning permission for this exciting development. We are now working closely with their team on the detailed designs for the site and developing the main infrastructure with the aim of the first plots becoming available in 2016.” Adrian Unitt, Operations Director, Graven Hill Village Development Company Limited.

 

Ground Conditions and Contamination
Our assessment has indicated that there is, surprisingly for a MOD site, very little ground contamination and there will be minimal remediation. This land contamination assessment has been undertaken in co-ordination with the geotechnical assessment to ensure efficient re-use of soils on site in a sustainable manner.

Ecology Advice
As an operational MOD base set in a large green estate, the site has a wide range of ecological interest, including specially protected wildlife species. Our ecology team has devised a Habitat Creation and Management Plan, in order to discharge ecological planning conditions. Working alongside our landscape colleagues, a mosaic of wildlife habitats will be created, combining retained hedgerows and woodland with new wetlands and areas of wildflower rich meadows.

Conservation and Heritage
Graven Hill was constructed in the 1940s as a MOD logistics depot. It is believed to have been the largest domestic military construction project during the World War Two and played a vital logistical role in operations such as Overlord (D-Day). Our teams have carried out comprehensive heritage building recording of all extant structures which included logistic hangars, air raid shelters and the Bicester Military Railway. We have also managed archaeological fieldwork, during which a Roman road was excavated, as well as artefacts from the Prehistoric, Roman, Medieval, and Post-Medieval periods, including evidence of World War Two Prisoner of War Camps.

Creating the Landscape
Our landscape team has played a key role in the design and co-ordination of the development to create a framework for placemaking for future residents. The landscape design has embraced an eclectic mix of traditional rural management techniques and contemporary solutions including the reinvention of military features, creative use of drainage systems and the development of urban lanes.

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