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4.460 m6.920 m 6.920 m

UNIT ONE - GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Warehouse and Office Accommodation

Scale: 1:100

UNIT ONE - FIRST FLOOR PLAN

Mezzanine Floor and Staff Welfare Accommodation

Scale: 1:100

PROPOSED PLANEXISTING PLAN

Scale: 1:100

PROPOSED MEZZANINE STRUCTURAL FLOOR PLAN

Scale: 1:100

PROPOSED SECTION A-A

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Mezzanine

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Ground Floor

Inside Face of

External Walls

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Ground Floor Office

Accomodation External

Walls Are Cavity

First Floor Staff Welfare

Accommodation External

Walls Are Cavity

External Walls

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PLANNING

ISSUE

Owner

RevolutionOil/2007/P03

Rev isionDrawing Number

Ground & First Floor Plans,

Mezzanine Structural Floor Plan

and Section A-A

Drawing Title

Address

ScaleDate

As Shown on Drawing24th August 2007

Fourways Farm,

Leighton Buzzard Road,

Great Gaddesden,

Hertfordshire.

Project Aim:

To gain Planning Approval for installing a new commercial mezzanine floor.

Freelance Project Manager Services included:

∗ Defining the Clients brief

∗ Undertaking a measured survey

∗ Producing existing drawings

∗ Producing proposed drawings

∗ lodging the Planning Application with statements

∗ Liaisons with the Planning Department

Key Aspects:

The location of the building is in the Chiltern Hills and due to the protected area status (OANB) and the nature of the Clients business (oil), strict Country Planning Laws, needed to be overcome, This was achieved through positive negotiations with the Planning Department.

New Commercial Mezzanine Floor,

Chiltern Hills, UK.

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REVOLUTION

OIL

FOURWAYS

FARM

PLANNING

ISSUE

Owner

RevolutionOil/2008/P03

Revision

Drawing Number

Proposed Plan, Elevations,

Entrance, Signage and

Section

Drawing Title

Address

ScaleDate

As Shown on Drawing29th September 2008

Fourways Farm,

Leighton Buzzard Road,

Great Gaddesden,

Hertfordshire.

Proposed Signage

Scale: 1:10

Proposed Brick & Flint Stone Wall

Scale: 1:20

Proposed Entrance and Fencing

Scale: Not to Scale

Proposed Mortorised Metal Entrance Swing Gates

Scale: 1:20

New tarmac taken from main

road to gates

Automated bollards 600 to

800mm high.

New soft landscaping to

entrance. Mixed weeping

birch and red hawthorn trees.

Extended road. In front of gates

to be concrete with tarmac.

Behind the gates to be honey

combe concrete base.New common brick walls with

flint stone sections, to

entrance. The design is to

match existing walls in nearby

Water End Village. Flood light

(250 watt max.) on PIR

sensors to be installed to the

base of each wall.

600mm

300mm

1850mm327.5mm 327.5mm

900mm

6500mm

Signage to both sides of brick

and stone walls

800mm.

450mm

Fourways Farm text to be

Aerial and text size to 80.

Colour to be black on white

sign background.

Sign to sit above flint wall

and not to be illuminated.

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450mm

800mm.

75mm.

75mm.Revolution Oil text to be

Ariel and text size to 72.

Colour to be black on white

sign background.

Sign to sit above flint wall

and not to be illuminated.

Humps to either side of

entrance to be 0.5m high,

2m wide and 3m long, and

be covered with top soil and

seed. Existing hard core to

be used for wall and humps.

Any excess hard-core to be

removed from site and and

the land turned back to

pasture.

Existing bridge. Honey

combe

concrete

road base.

New weeping

birch and red

hawthorn trees

New soft landscaping to entrance.

Mixed weeping birch and red

hawthorn trees.

Project Aim:

Following a failed criminal raid the owner requested security improvements. In addition, road access / egress improvements, for Heavy Goods Vehicles.

Freelance Project Manager Services included:

∗ Producing a set of Planning drawings incorporating:

∗ Local materials (local flint stones and reclaimed local brick) for the walled entrance.

∗ Recessing bollards to prevent ramming

∗ Remote control swing metal gates with intercom

∗ Road widening using a honeycomb footing to reduce the impact of a larger concrete road.

∗ Landscaping using trees common to the area.

Key Aspects:

Due to the protected area status of the Chiltern Hills strict Country Planning Laws, needed to be overcome by negotiating with the Planning Department and ensuring the proposals sat discreetly within the surroundings by using local designs and materials.

Freelance Project Management Case Study

Security & Road Improvements to a Commercial Unit,

Chiltern Hills, UK.

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