Rigby Road Remediation

Customer:Blackpool Council

Value: £2.2 million

Remediation of a 5.95Ha brownfield site to enable the development of 400 distinctive family homes.

The brownfield site, next to Blackpool FC’s new football ground, is in two parts to the east and west of Seasiders’ Way and to the north and south of Rigby Road. Both parts of the site were previously intensively developed land from Victorian times with a history of heavy industrial and commercial use that has now diminished.

The majority of the West site was formerly used as a gasworks, with two gasometers, a retort house, gasworks offices and associated infrastructure. The East site has an industrial past, evolving from tram engine sheds and municipal incinerator to illuminations depot and donkey stables.

Our site enabling package involved:-

  • The demolition of 2 gas holders and other ancillary miscellaneous structures together with removal of waters and sludge
  • A comprehensive scheme of land remediation works including cut and fill, on-site contaminated land treatment, off- site recycling and capping of the site with processed arisings
  • Engineering works to provide site infrastructure including roads, services, landscaping and engineered building plots
  • Permanently sealing off a disused tunnel which relates to the previous industrial use

During the project, bomb disposal experts had to be called after war time shells were discovered on site. The shells were found by vigilant site workers during the excavation of cellars under the Blundell Street car park. Co-ordination with the local police subsequently cordoned off Rigby Road, preventing cars and pedestrians from using it to access the famous Promenade. The site was also evacuated as was Blackpool Transport’s office on Rigby Road.

VHE treated 7163m3 of hydrocarbon contaminated soils by enhanced biophysical remediation to levels suitable for re-use on site. The treatment of materials was undertaken using the CLaire Definition of Waste under a Hub and Cluster site arrangement.

WYG Environment acted as consulting engineer and undertook the site investigation and preparation of the remediation strategy and the works were managed directly by the Council’s Capital Projects Team.

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