Halcrow provided all the multi-disciplinary services required for the enabling to residential and commercial end uses of the former Norton Colliery and adjacent Newford Valley licensed landfill.

The specialist geotechnical and landfill engineering advice included:

• ground investigations, particularly for contamination, mine workings and earthworks
• remedial engineering to landfills (slurry wall, enhancement of capping, re-provision of gas control system)
• modification of the Waste Management Licence conditions and Working Plan
  Contamination remediation
• mine workings treatment specification
• mine shaft location and treatment specifications
• slope stability assessments
• specification of earthwork controls
• design of foundations