Educational Establishments


Drainage done. Wembley on the horizon


with them was duly made and a full specification for tender drawn up. They, in turn, gave the school names of


contractors suitably able to handle such a project. Included in the tender was the school’s own facilities management company, but it was Turfdry who, in Charlie’s words “came up with the best solutions for the site”, and got the tender. The land had once been a brickfield back in the 1930s and land filling had caused it to be far from even. Overcoming this, plus a


distinct slope away from the school towards the nearby River Brent, were key elements of the specification. Only major earthworks would turn it into a sports field. Turfdry began its work on the site in March 2013. Its mission was to transform this council-owned land - in truth derelict and overgrown - into a recreational and sports area for the school. An 80m x 50m football pitch was to be the centerpiece of the development. “We looked at various levelling options,” Melvyn told me. “Little was really known


about the nature of the terrain, or what problems might be beneath it, so it had to be a ‘fill only’ project using lorry after lorry of locally-sourced subsoil and imported topsoil from British Sugar. We didn’t want to risk cutting into any potentially contaminated sub-surface material.” A practical virtue of the site was that it


was standalone and completely fenced off. Turfdry were conveniently able to get daily access via the neighbouring Ealing Council depot too, so their work caused no


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