Auchmead Road
Blyth & Blyth were appointed by major social housing provider CCG (Scotland) Ltd, to provide Civil and Structural engineering services on a development of 36 residential units at Auchmead Road, Greenock.
Location: Greenock
Client: CCG (Scotland) Limited
Cost: £3.5m
Completion: 2019
The development, by Oaktree Housing Association, and designed by MAST Architects, will provide much needed social housing on a brownfield site formerly occupied by a primary school and a community centre.
Key challenges
In common with many sites in Greenock, the Auchmead Road site faced challenging levels issues for almost the entire perimeter of the development site. A careful assessment of existing and proposed site levels was required to optimise the provision of retaining walls whilst limiting highway and site gradients. A substantial rock cut of a 4m high rocky protrusion was required on site to allow the development of the centre of the site.
Surface water drainage has incorporated a number of SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) technologies including grass swales, filter beds, permeable paving, and cellular underground storage tanks.
Results
Works completed late 2019 and a total of 36 homes have been delivered in a mix of 28 two, three and four-bedroom semi-detached houses and 8 two-bedroom cottage flats.