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Minimising the impact of a new 6000m car park, a sustainable urban drainage system from Charcon has been specified by Wirral Borough Council. The new 'park and ride' is part of a ?1.26 million set of measures to assist the council on the influx of visitors for the Royal Open Golf Championship. Due to the permeability of the soil and restrictions on discharging water into the existing drainage, the company developed a system that would replicate the natural infiltration of surface water into the water course. This required the level of the car park to be elevated to increase the capacity for controlled drainage, using the company's open granular sub-base to delay the speed at which rainwater enters the watercourse. Infilta block paving was selected for the surface of the parking areas, allowing ingress of water through the storage system.

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Flagstones from Charcon's Ecopave range have been selected for the replacement of a pavement on the high street in Sevenoaks, Kent. Manufactured at low cost to the environment, the stones are textured for a granite-like appearance in keeping with the exisiting street design and architecture. For kerb appeal, the new pavement also includes charcoal Europa paving blocks capable of handling heavy traffic movement and can be lifted for access to services and reinstated without leaving repair scars. The Eco range of hard landscaping paving and kerb products uses recycled by-products, from quarrying and manufacturing, as raw materials for precast concrete products. The only virgin resource used is cement, which has been partially substituted for waste materials. Aggregate, sand, and other constituents have been either recycled or are a waste material. The filter medium used in the process utilises recycled paper too.

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