North Durham Retail Park
Rainton Construction provided a range of groundworks and external works services to enable the delivery of North Durham Retail Park.
The new, modern retail park comprises over 55,000 sq ft of space and is two miles north of the City Centre.
Scope of works
- Enabling works to facilitate HV/LV diversions
- Drainage, including attenuation tanks
- Foundations for new retail units
- Retaining walls
- Grouting & concrete encasement to structural steelwork columns
- Section 278 works on Old Pit Lane
- External works
Relocating the existing entrance further south along Old Pit Lane provided 267 parking spaces.
MGL Demolition undertook soft strip, asbestos removal and remote demolition of the five previously occupied buildings. The rubble was crushed and tested before being used to form the buildings’ foundations and construct the roads, car parks and footpaths. This helped to reduce the number of off-site lorry movements and minimise the development’s environmental impact.
MGL Earthworks carried out bulk earthworks and remediation. Surfacing was undertaken by our in-house team, which is part of Rainton Construction, and the material was provided by Tynedale Roadstone.
The site will be occupied by Home Bargains, Iceland Foods, Aldi, and a Starbucks drive thru. The development is estimated to create up to 95 full-time equivalent jobs.
We are proud to have enabled the redevelopment of the site, which will provide greater consumer choice and create new jobs for local people.
