{"id":508,"date":"2024-08-08T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=508"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:43:28","slug":"hawkenbury-recreation-ground","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/projects\/hawkenbury-recreation-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawkenbury Recreation Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Hawkenbury Recreation Ground &#8211; Car Park Extension<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Kent<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Tunbridge Wells Borough Council<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rio\u00a0Surfacing were engaged by the Council following the successful bid and quality submission, who needed to add an additional car park to provide 29 standard car parking bays and 1 disabled bay serving a community recreation area. The specification required the installation of a permeable and environmentally friendly system capable of providing an effective and serviceable surface area for cars and light goods vehicles. The sustainable self-draining Bodpave\u00a0system was chosen to provide a robust surface while avoiding the need to discharge surface water into the local drainage system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disciplines involved in the construction process were:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Site GPR and CAT service survey to establish location and position of utility apparatus<\/li>\n<li>Removal of existing grass surfaces to recycling facility<\/li>\n<li>Tree removal and shredding removed to local repurposing centre<\/li>\n<li>Bulk excavation and groundworks to level the area pre-construction of the car park<\/li>\n<li>Ground percolation testing to prove suitability for discharge of stormwater to ground<\/li>\n<li>Installation of permeable reinforcement geotextiles, capping layer, and sub bases<\/li>\n<li>Installation of Bodpave 85 grid and gravel system to manufacturers approved specification<\/li>\n<li>Installation of perimeter diamond recycled low level fence<\/li>\n<li>General making good to disturbed landscaped surfaces and complete site clean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of many surfacing projects we have completed for Local Authorities across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent<br \/>\nTunbridge Wells Borough Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":509,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[26,32,29,36,28,34,31],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-car-parks","portfolio_category-fencing-access-control","portfolio_category-groundworks-drainage","portfolio_category-hardstandings","portfolio_category-roadmarkings-lining","portfolio_category-site-investigation-works","portfolio_category-suds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/508\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riogroup.co.uk\/surfacing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}