Dursley Aerial

Dursley, Gloucestershire

Background

Acquired in 2002, through a Development Agreement with South West Regional Development Agency, this mixed use 92 acre regeneration scheme will redevelop the former Lister Petter manufacturing site.

Our Vision

Littlecombe Masterplan

An exemplar urban village including 600 homes, the creation of employment accommodation for 1,000 jobs, and local facilities. The project involves the opening up of the culverted river Cam and its sustainability credentials will be enhanced by high sustainability requirements being placed on the house builders, together with photovoltaic cells for a significant proportion of the homes.

Activities to date have included: obtaining an outline planning permission for the whole site; the acquisition of the Drake House office building for refurbishment; ecological works and remediation of foundry sand heaps and a former town gas works; the creation of a business park zone; the opening up of the first stretch of the river Cam; the sale of the Towers for refurbishment to include a 52-bed nursing home and 18 assisted living units. First residential land sale of zones A1 & A2 (74 units) completed with Bloor Homes with occupation of the first homes in late 2009. The first 27,000 sq ft. of speculative employment space completed in March 2008 comprising small and medium enterprise units, with over 75% sold.

CESR

Culverted river cam

We have worked closely with the Environment Agency to agree and then implement an innovative remediation strategy, opening up the culverted river Cam that bisects the site to form a central green corridor and remediating over 200,000 tonnes of foundry sand and a former town gas works . The foundry sand, after extensive testing, was approved for use as structural fill and demolition materials are being reused on site.

Additionally, as part of our commitment to creating an exemplar urban village, the stewardship of the estate including the public areas and other community facilities will be vested in a Community Interest Company.

Drake House

Dealing with the severe forms of contamination that this type of former use leaves is a skill the company has developed. At Dursley the main remediation strategy involved the use of windrows with some active bio-remediation dramatically reducing off-site disposal of contaminated materials. Only 1 lorry load of contaminated materials has left the site during the year.

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