CampbellReith is proud to be leading a multi-disciplinary team providing project management, engineering and environmental consultancy services at the former Yeo Valley Site for Homes England. This is a Site located on the outskirts of the village of Cheddar, within Somerset’s Mendip Hills National Landscape, and therefore has significant landscape sensitivities.
Having been involved from the initial Technical Due Diligence and capacity planning to support the Site’s acquisition by Homes England, CampbellReith’s team comprising LDA Design’s planners and masterplanners, TEP’s ecologists and Lambert Smith Hampton’s property advisors have prepared a new masterplan and achieved Section 73 planning approval in late 2024. The proposed development includes up to 100 new homes, alongside a 60-bed care home, plus extra-care units, workplaces and a nursery.
The design of the revised masterplan has carefully considered how to overcome the steep Site topography to improve Site accessibility, whilst coordinating the proposed Site levels with sustainable surface water drainage solutions. The proposed addition of a drainage pond in the south of the Site seeks to offer enhancements to biodiversity, water quality, and local amenity.
Homes England will now demolish the existing commercial buildings and have recently completed a public procurement exercise to appoint Walters UK Ltd as main Contractor to take the site demolition works forward, which includes the construction of a bat barn as ecological mitigation. CampbellReith and TEP will continue to play an important role in managing these works through to completion. This represents a key milestone for the mixed-use regeneration scheme to prepare the site for a developer.
Well done to CampbellReith’s Project Director Tristan Tucker, Project Manager and Environmental Consultant Michael Baber, with support from Blessing Farirai, Robert Cogbill on drainage design, Rob Green on transport, Sam Savery as Site supervisor, as well as the wider team of Susie Byrne MRTPI and Paul Connelly from LDA Design, Ruth Woolston at TEP and Chris Parkes at LSH to name a few.
