Building on a spring

[Lynx516]

To cut a long story short our neighbours are trying to get planning permission for a block of flats in their garden. The planning is currently held up because the council have said they need a hydrogeologist report because they have emergent ground water on their site.

About 4 weeks ago they had drillers come round and install, with concrete, boreholes presumably to check the water levels over a period of time. Does anyone have any experience with how long these reports take as it would be nice not to have to check the portal every so often? Are these a check once thing or will they have to check over say a 6 month period?

Thanks for any help, for other reasons this has been a massive saga!

[bobtail4x4]

I have been involved in a few houses built over springs.
its a simple matter of capping the spring and using ducts moving it to a disposal point, usually a ditch, rather than a sewer,

[Mandat]

Lynx516 said:

To cut a long story short our neighbours are trying to get planning permission for a block of flats in their garden. The planning is currently held up because the council have said they need a hydrogeologist report because they have emergent ground water on their site.

About 4 weeks ago they had drillers come round and install, with concrete, boreholes presumably to check the water levels over a period of time. Does anyone have any experience with how long these reports take as it would be nice not to have to check the portal every so often? Are these a check once thing or will they have to check over say a 6 month period?

Thanks for any help, for other reasons this has been a massive saga!

How big is their garden to fit in a block of flats?

Also, I'm imagining Peckham Spring water when you mention a spring.

[Flooble]

I am disappointed, was hoping to discover this was some sort of shock absorber solution for earthquakes or nuclear bombings.

[Lynx516]

Mandat said:

How big is their garden to fit in a block of flats?

Also, I'm imagining Peckham Spring water when you mention a spring.

Not big enough!

It’s more like water oozing out of the ground in multiple places which shift around and they want to build on top of them.

[TA14]

Flooble said:

I am disappointed, was hoping to discover this was some sort of shock absorber solution for earthquakes or nuclear bombings.

See the Bridgewater Hall:
https://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/about/history-a...

[Simpo Two]

TA14 said:

Flooble said:

I am disappointed, was hoping to discover this was some sort of shock absorber solution for earthquakes or nuclear bombings.

See the Bridgewater Hall:
https://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/about/history-a...

'One of the most fascinating aspects of the Hall’s construction is that the entire structure floats free of the ground on almost three hundred, earthquake-proof isolation bearings or giant springs.'

If Manchester was in an earthquake zone that might have been useful. Was the architect Japanese?

[Byker28i]

Simpo Two said:

TA14 said:

Flooble said:

I am disappointed, was hoping to discover this was some sort of shock absorber solution for earthquakes or nuclear bombings.

See the Bridgewater Hall:
https://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/about/history-a...

'One of the most fascinating aspects of the Hall s construction is that the entire structure floats free of the ground on almost three hundred, earthquake-proof isolation bearings or giant springs.'

If Manchester was in an earthquake zone that might have been useful. Was the architect Japanese?

The old Plessey semiconductor plant in Plymouth was built on springs to absorb the vibration of the traffic