TanRo preps Nottinghamshire industrial park: earthworks and retaining wall notes for engineers
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Extensive remediation and enabling works at Clowes Developments’ 31‑acre Harrier Park site off the M1 in Hucknall are more than 90% complete, preparing up to 500,000 sq ft of industrial and warehouse space on the former Harrier jump jet and Rolls‑Royce Merlin engine works. TanRo has installed a 134‑metre retaining wall on Plot 1 using 64 steel columns and 127 concrete infill panels, completed major storm drainage and high‑voltage diversion ducting, and formed the main access road plateau. On Plot 2, storm drainage diversion, a southern screening bund to Plot 2D and bulk earthworks to near‑final plateau levels position the site for warehouse construction from next month.
Technical Brief
- Overall programme progress has exceeded 90%, with remaining tasks limited to minor bulk earthworks.
- New storm manhole connection on Dorey Way was delivered over four weeks under live traffic conditions.
- Previously unknown underground features triggered re-sequencing of works rather than redesign, preserving programme dates.
Our Take
Among the 398 Infrastructure stories in our database, relatively few focus on mid-sized industrial estates in the UK regions, so Harrier Park in Nottinghamshire stands out as part of a modest but noticeable cluster of logistics and light industrial schemes outside the South East.
The 134 m retaining wall with 64 steel columns and 127 infill panels suggests TanRo and Clowes are optimising Harrier Park’s plots for level platforms on a constrained or sloping site, which typically allows higher site utilisation and more flexible unit layouts for future occupiers.
Completion of drainage tie-ins on Dorey Way within a four-week window indicates Ashfield District Council and utilities have been able to coordinate approvals efficiently, which tends to de-risk later phases of industrial park build-out compared with sites where off-site drainage upgrades are still pending.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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