• Land adjacent to, Wood Lane, Denby Dale, Huddersfield
    Residential Development of Land at Denby Dale, Huddersfield
    In order to support the application for the erection of a dwelling a Phase I desk study report was required to support the application and to determine if the site could be made ‘suitable for use’. Demeter Environmental were commissioned to prepare the desk study report for the site. Initially the history of the site […]
  • Change of Use of Existing Buildings, Owler Lane, Birstall, WF17 9BW
    Given that the subject site was within a ‘Development High Risk’ Area’ the Coal Authority objected to the application until a Coal Mining Risk Assessment was prepared for the site to assess the risks posed by the legacy of coal mining in the area. Large and small scale geological maps confirmed the bedrock comprised of […]
  • Residential Redevelopment of a Former Works, Denby Dale, Huddersfield, HD8 8PR
    To support the application for the residential redevelopment of a former works a Phase I desk study report was required to support the application. The first stage of the desk study report was to research the site history using a combination of historical Ordnance Survey maps, aerial plates and  street level imagery.  This revealed that […]
  • Residential Development, Gomersal, Cleckheaton
    In order to support the application for the residential redevelopment of the site, both a Phase I desk study report (to determine if there were any potential sources of contamination and to assess if the site could be made ‘suitable for use’ and a Coal Mining Risk Assessment (to determine the issues relating to coal […]