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Monks Wood, North Shields Surface Attenuation

We are currently on site adjacent to Beach Road. Our scheme is to separate surface water flows from the combined sewerage system and store the excessive flows during storms. To do this, we are constructing new surface water and combined sewers together with a series of cascading basins in which to hold back the flows until the storm subsides and the existing sewerage system can accept the storm water.

Update by Anthony Birkett

Hi Everyone

I've been to site today to check in with Simon and the team about how we're getting on. We're making decent progress and will be making some changes around the compound next week.

We will be removing the large cabins from site and clearing the area that they currently occupy. We have explored numerous possibilities about where to locate our welfare cabins going forward and have decided that we will locate two smaller cabins on the other side of the tree line, on the verge next to Beach Road.

This is to enable the digging of the basins where the cabins currently area. The new, smaller cabins will be self contained with their own enclosed generator and will be situated next to the current entrance and exit to the compound.

I've attached a photo showing where they will be.

Unfortunately, the location of the cabin nearest to Morrisons and the fact that the fencing will need to be pushed back to dig the basins means that access round the back of the compound area will no longer be possible for residents of Heybrook Avenue (picture attached illustrating the access I am referring to)

Regards

Tony

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