In order to assist with the allocation of land for housing and employment and to meet the requirements of paragraph 112 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), Maidstone Borough Council needed to assess the impact on “best and most…
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A 49 MW solar farm planned across 78 ha of agricultural land on the Hampshire Downs had met with considerable opposition from local residents. With the government restating its aim in early 2015 to direct solar farms away from the best and most…
Land Research Associates were awarded the tenders for four FC Districts: Dumfries and Borders, Galloway, Scottish Lowlands and Cowal & Trossachs – a total survey area of more than 6,000 ha.
In early 2016 LRA were awarded a contract to conduct a soil survey on the agricultural areas of the site in order to inform the final site design and planting scheme. Soils were investigated using the ‘free survey’ method to classify the soils at…
In 2011 LRA was commissioned by Blue Living (Norwich) to undertake an assessment of the impact on soils and agriculture of a proposed 400 ha+ Sustainable Urban Extension to the north-east of Norwich.
In 2014 Land Research Associates were contacted by consultants working for Saint Gobain PAM UK to provide advice as part of the reworking of a foundry waste tip at Holwell Works near Melton Mowbray. The proposal was to re-contour the 8 ha tip and…
Bickershaw North near Wigan is a 240 ha area of land degraded by the former West Leigh Colliery, the later Bickershaw Colliery and its spoil heaps, and the Albert Opencast Coal Site. Those uses had left a legacy of bare and eroding spoil heaps,…
LRA’s director, Malcolm Reeve received instructions from solicitors acting for three industrial companies, to investigate and report on the soil and land aspects of a long-running High Court claim. The claim alleged that emissions from factory…
Royal Haskoning DHV acting for the Norwegian energy companies Statoil and Statkraft retained Land Research Associates (LRA) to undertake a detailed soil survey along the route and produce a soil management plan designed to guide the programming of…
The redevelopment of a former further education college into a secondary school involved the demolition and reconstruction of existing buildings, creation of artificial (4G) sports pitches on part of the existing playing fields and general…