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 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 a district-wide biomass heating and hot water system, together with photovoltaic cells for a significant proportion of the homes.

Activities to date have included: obtaining a resolution to grant outline planning permission, subject to entering into a S106 agreement; 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; and the sale of the Towers for refurbishment to include a 44-bed nursing home. First residential land sale of zones A1 & A2 (74 units) exchanged with Bloor Homes with zone F (79 units) to be marketed and sold in 2008. The first 27,000 sq ft. of speculative employment space completed in March 2008 comprising small and medium enterprise units.

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 biomass district heating system 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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