Sittingbourne

Our Role

Sittingbourne represented a key opportunity for sustainable growth in North Kent but also posed several challenges from existing infrastructure constraints to the need for cohesive integration with surrounding developments and the local transport network.
The success of the project depended on early, proactive infrastructure planning and expert coordination across stakeholders, technical disciplines, and statutory consultees.
Brookbanks also did a utility feasibility report for this site, providing reviews of existing utility infrastructure constraints as well as securing diversion quotations for affected infrastructure and identified and secured utility network capacity for electricity and water infrastructure to support the disposal of the site.
There were also no infiltration or existing watercourses onsite causing surface water to discharge into the existing surface water sewer network. Brookbanks produced a flood risk and surface water drainage plan to fix this issue. As the final invert manhole invert level was fixed and due to the layout of the site, preliminary levels work ups were required in the north east corner to determine how the network could drain via gravity without the need for pumping stations. Due to the singular connection each discharge rate from the upstream basins had to be restricted to prevent ending up with one massive basin at the end of the network.