Location details
- Centre grid ref
- SO846133
- Location comment
- The Gloucester Gateway M5 motorway services created a new sustainable standard in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The structures are built into the undulating hills softened with organic forms and green roofs. An ambitious landscaping solution required ACO to create a Sustainable Drainage System controlling rainwater run-off, while providing a high-quality habitat for wildlife to flourish.
- Submission date
- Entered on 22nd March 2022 at 12:12
- Postcode
- GL4 0WW
- Area (m2)
- 130086
- Site type
- Filling station
- Project description
- THE PROJECT
A new motorways services on the M5 near Gloucester.
THE BRIEF
Creating a new motorway service area that was sensitive to its local green field surroundings, reduce flood risk, maximises bio-diversity and creates amenity areas.
THE SOLUTION
ACO KerbDrain, Qmax and ACO Swale Inlets combined to integrate with a full SuDS solutions, creating amenity areas for people and wildlife alike.
The design of the site needed to be similarly sensitive to the needs of the locality, given the site’s location on the edge of an area of outstanding natural beauty. This involved shielding much of the site from key vantage points by means by means of large scale screens created by curving green roofs over both the main buildings. - Biodiversity objectives
- The drainage strategy also reflected this principal, linking together an extensive array of sustainable drainage features across the site including swales, bio-retention areas and filtration strips, which ultimately discharge water to a pond and wetland area.
Trust partnered with the Building with Nature scheme to ensure the building benefits wildlife and increases biodiversity. Water has been used to attract new species in the ponds, and the site also has bat boxes and raptor boxes for kestrels, as well as insects in the stone wall cladding of the buildings. Over 1000 trees have been planted on site, including an orchard ,with the ‘growing communities’
project. - Address
- Upton St Leonards, Cheltenham, Gloucester
The download link below produces a unique QR code for the site area added. You can connect your site to the online entry by adding this QR code to information boards. This allows members of the public to view site information and record wildlife they see at the site.
Download site QR code hereHabitats and features
| Name | Type | Area (m2) | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Car park Vegetation unspecified | Habitat :: Tall herb & fen (unspecified) | 1194 | view |
| Grassland (dog walking area) | Habitat :: Neutral grassland (unspecified) | 3293 | view |
| Large grass land area north | Habitat :: Neutral grassland (unspecified) | 30443 | view |
| Large Green Roof | Habitat :: Intensive green roof | 4968 | view |
| Large pond for amenity and biodiversity | Habitat :: Ponds | 706 | view |
| planted trees | Habitat :: Parkland & scattered trees (unspecified) | 1783 | view |
| Tree line to extremity of site (east) | Habitat :: Broadleaved & mixed woodland (unspecified) | 0 | view |
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