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GROUND FLOOR
OFFICE ACCOMMODATION
GROUND FLOOR
LOADING BAY AREA
Entrance to Front
Loading Bay Area
Entrance
toFrontOffice
W2 W1W3
D1
D2
W4
Roller
Shutter
FIRST FLOOR
STAFF WELFARE AREA
GROUND FLOOR
LOADING BAY AREA
Entrance to Front
Loading Bay Area
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Roller
Shutter
Roller
Shutter
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SECTION
A - A
SECTION
A - A
FIRST FLOOR
MEZZANINE
SECTION
A - A
SECTION
A - A
Roller
Shutter GROUND FLOOR
WAREHOUSE
External
EnclosedYard
External Brick Wall
Entrance
to Rear of Premises
D3
Entrance
to Rear of Premises
D3
External Brick Wall
18.300 m
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
32.690m
22.830m32.692m
First Floor
Mezzanine
Perimeter
Ground Floor
Inside Face of
External Walls
Are Clad
With Metal
Sheeting
Ground Floor Office
Accomodation External
Walls Are Cavity
First Floor Staff Welfare
Accommodation External
Walls Are Cavity
External Walls
Above Ground
Floor Are Clad
With Fibre
Cement
Sheeting
4.400m
Roof Is Clad With
Fibre Cement Sheeting
Roof Is Clad With
Fibre Cement Sheeting
D5
D6
D7
D8
D9
D10 D11
PLANNING
ISSUE
Owner
RevolutionOil/2007/P03
RevisionDrawing 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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2. 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.
600mm300mm
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.
Rev. 01
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.
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a Commercial Unit,
Chiltern Hills, UK.
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