Albion Road, 24hr utility search

Project Overview

24-Hour turnaround for city centre refurbishment

A fast turnaround city centre enquiry to de-risk a mixed-use refurbishment, capturing the complex mix of electricity, gas, water and telecoms within a busy streetscape. With a fifty-metre buffer, a complete pack was returned within twenty-four hours.

24hr

Turnaround

50m

Search Buffer

9.8k

m² Site Area

Scope and Process

Issued enquiries to statutory undertakers and telecoms operators the same day.
Applied a fifty-metre buffer to capture adjacent streets and service corridors.
Tracked responses hourly and chased outstanding returns.
Collated plans and safety notes into a single site pack.

Deliverables

Combined PDF utility pack with bookmarks.
Utility Provider Tracker with dates and references.
Affected plans for gas, electricity, water and telecoms.
Unaffected confirmations.
Plain English report with actions and contacts.

Who We Engaged

Key asset owners with affected apparatus in the search area included:

Northern Powergrid Yorkshire Water Cadent Gas BT Virgin Media CityFibre

We also received confirmations of no known apparatus from:

Verizon Business Lumen Technologies Colt Utility Assets Zayo Group

Coverage includes statutory undertakers, plant protection bodies and major telecoms operators.

Smart Reporting

Plain language report, included with every pack

Alongside raw plans, we supplied a short report that translates technical responses into clear actions for designers, site managers and clients.

Where utilities are present within or near the boundary, with simple maps.
Any special safeguards noted by operators, for example trial holes and hand dig zones.
Immediate next steps, permits and contacts.
A summary table that anyone on the project can follow.

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