PRP UK Ltd
PRPRetirement Living and Care

Alma Road Peterborough

The construction of 96 residential units and a three-storey care home for Accent Nene Housing Association, with associated highways and drainage works.

Engineering excellence / Est. 1985

Project

Alma Road

Client

Accent Nene Housing Association

Location

Alma Road, Peterborough – now called Century Square

Collaborators

BRP Architects, SDC Housing Association

Construction value

Approx. £10m

This project consisted of the construction of 96 residential units and a three-storey care home for Accent Nene Housing Association, with associated highways and drainage works. The highways were designed as shared surfaces to keep vehicle speeds to a minimum, with tree pits and bollards used to create an environment where car speeds would be reduced; this was all designed to comply with Peterborough City Council's adoptable standards and was approved under a Section 38 agreement.

The most significant challenge on this project involved getting the highway adopted since the highways department insisted that surface water run-off from the highways discharged into an adoptable sewer, and as the nearest public sewers were relatively shallow, it was a challenge to make the scheme work.

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