Betteshanger Colliery Regeneration, Kent, UK
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After many years of dereliction, the regeneration of the former Betteshanger Colliery in Kent has transformed the area into a new, high quality business park, community park and cycling centre with widespread landscape, environmental and ecological improvements.
The 120ha Betteshanger colliery contained high-density industrial brownfield land contaminated by more than 60 years of coal mining and landfill use. Though previously cleared, traces of the old works still remained including building foundations, buried mine-working equipment and exhausted mineshafts.
We conducted extensive work to overcome the physical constraints inhibiting the transformation of the site to a workable condition. Identification and management of various issues including infrastructural, geotechnical, environmental and hydrological were undertaken with great sensitivity to the surrounding marshlands and Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Caverns were uncovered and filled, site contamination removed, and minestone processed and re-used to make a level platform for construction.
In addition to providing waste management solutions, we have been involved in providing a new wastewater and sewage treatment system, a new 2.5km road and various environmental improvements.
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Did you know?
A circular road the length of a dog racing circuit was located near the colliery and was used by miners to race their whippets.
Services provided
- Contaminated land & geotechnics
- Environmental
- Geotechnical
- H&S, CDM co-ordinator
- Hydrology
- Infrastructure
- Natural & mining cavities database
- Waste management
Project highlights
- Transformation of over 120 ha of derelict industrial land to create a new business and community park
- Complex environmental, and ecological challenges
- Significant benefits to the local community including new employment opportunities and recreational facilities