Waitrose South Harrow

CASE STUDY – Car Park Resurfacing

Spadeoak was the appointed contractor of Waitrose to complete a car park refurbishments project at their busy store in South Harrow, London. Spadeoak was tasked with resurfacing the 5,910m² area of car park, utilising a low carbon solution ensured we could offer Waitrose a carbon saving of 3,540kgco2e on asphalt material. Spadeoak civils also completed the installation of new kerbing, drainage channels, bollards and fresh thermoplastic line marking. The car park has over 200 vehicles and an additional 17 disabled and parent & child parking bays and 4 EV charging bays.

Spadeoak was delighted to the be appointed the surfacing contractor of choice by Waitrose to complete a car park refurbishment project at South Harrow, London. The store opened on Tuesday 21st May 1966 and is located to the West of the centre of London, in close proximity to Wembley.

Spadeoak was tasked with resurfacing the 5,910m² area of car park with Spadeoak civils teams installing the addition of 159lm of new kerbing, 300m of new aco drainage channels and gulleys, 77 new bollards for customer safety and walkways and fresh thermoplastic line marking. The car park houses over 200 vehicles and an additional 17 disabled and parent & child parking bays and 4 EV charging bays.

The challenges on site included weather conditions and operating on site in a live environment, an elements of the project Spadeoak have excelled at and a reason Waitrose selected Spadeoak to complete these works. To minimise disruption to this extremely busy store the works were phased ensuring key areas would be completed outside of store operating hours and over weekends, this meant only ever a quarter of the car parking spaces were close for resurfacing, always maintaining public access and key parking bays remained accessible.

Working closely with our supply chain partners Spadeoak was able to support Waitrose and offer a carbon saving delivered on the asphalt material installed, this was 3,540kgco2e, the equivalent of planting over 140 trees.