Posts by Cate Davies

Burston is a village situated a little way north of the market town of Diss in Norfolk. IIn 1914 it made national headlines when almost of the local school’s pupils went on strike in support of their teachers, a husband and wife couple who had been sacked by the school management committee. The strike was…

Client: West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust In May 2023 West Suffolk Council approved a hybrid application by West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust for a new hospital and multi-storey car park on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds. This is intended to replace nearby hospital buildings which have been in use since 1974 and have long…

Client: Pre-Construct Archaeology on behalf of Temple Tipner East is a brownfield site situated on Portsea Island, on the eastern side of Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire. Until the middle of the 20th century, most of it was tidal mudflats, with the remainder under pasture. The dry land was first utilised for industry in the 1850s,…

Client: New Monks Farm Development Ltd New Monks Farm, which lies c. 12kms west of Brighton, was a large area of former grazing land sandwiched between the South Downs National Park and the English Channel. Much of the site had been the subject of a landfilling and landscaping exercise which introduced many thousands of tons…

Client: Group 1 Automotive Staples Corner is a major transport interchange in London, with interconnected roundabouts and flyovers linking the A406 North Circular to the A5 Edgware Road and M1 motorway. The two roundabouts are separated by the London to Sheffield mainline railway, and bounded to the north by the River Brent. Its name comes…

Client: Group 1 Automotive Cork Tree Way forms part of Cork Tree Retail Park, a shopping centre beside the A406 North Circular in Chingford. The name is a reminder of the Cork Manufacturing Co. Ltd, whose ‘Langite Works’ occupied the site until 1983. From here, the company’s famous ‘Chingford’ cricket and hockey balls were exported…

Client: HS2 Ltd PCA Heritage designed, developed and continues to maintain the heritage asset database used by HS2 and its Phase 2B heritage teams. The database manages data on nearly 20,000 heritage assets present along the two legs of the Phase 2b route (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds). The database answered the…

Client: Muse Developments Ltd and the Canal and River Trust Hale Wharf is an 1.8 hectare island site in north London bounded by the Lee Navigation Channel to the west and the River Lea Flood Relief Channel to the east. The site belongs to the Canal and River Trust, the successor body to British Waterways.…