Golpla® Case Study: Providing Visitor Car Parking at Castle Drogo, Bodmin, Devon
Golpla SUDS compliant grass reinforcement
Challenge
To build a new SUDs compliant car park that was worthy of the new information centre and landscaping that was part of the same build process.
Harrison Sutton Partnership the main Architects for the project employed a specialist landscape architect called Rathbone Partnership.
Their challenge was to introduce a robust hard-wearing attractive car park surface that would deal with the site's previous history of poor drainage, the National Trust wherever possible was anxious to use natural materials and to establish grass coverage.
A number of options were considered, but following the proven track history of a similar project at Boscastle Golpla was chosen.
Golpla Solution
Working for Midas Construction, Anzac Construction installed 2,124m² of Golpla pavers manufactured from recycled plastic. The customer requested gravel roads and pre-grown Golpla Fastlay in the parking bays.
Construction Details
Car Parking Bays
Base: 150mm MOT type 3
Blinding layer: 100mm of rootzone to provide drainage, support and nutrients to aid grass durability.
Surface material: Golpla pavers (unit size 620 x 300 x 38mm) filled with grass pregrown within the paver cells prior to delivery.
Roads Within Car Park
Base: 150mm MOT type 3
Blinding layer: 20mm layer of sharp sand
Surface material Golpla pavers filled with 10mm down decorative gravel from local source.
Client Benefits
- Golpla units weigh only 1kg each, well within safe handling limits.
- Golpla is both recycled and recyclable
- Golpla's patented lug and slot connection aids line and level accuracy and facilitates fast installation
- Local materials used in construction of the car park base and stone also used in filling cells on car park access roads.
- Permeable surface means no drainage infrastructure required and no stormwater run-off issues.
- Parking Bays laid with pregrown Golpla Fastlay within paver cells, eliminating potential problems in establishing grass over the winter period.
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