St Aiden’s is a small piece of land sandwiched between a 1990-2000’s housing estate, council units and the busy Queen Elizabeth Way “square-a-bout”.
This is in a lower demographic area of Cheltenham.

The design has already been agreed upon, and our job is to take it from the design phase to pre-build. This will include creating construction and setting out drawings alongside costings, amongst others.

Although the site looks flat, there is approx. 0.5m difference across the site. This difference in height and cambre could be due to old demolition rubble and foundations from the previous church.

There are a few trees, most of which are damaged or diseased, so they will be removed. However, the large willow tree will remain.

On the south boundary, there is a large stone/aggregate base, which may have previously stood a temporary building. The aggregate could be reused as a subbase for the build to reduce some costs.

After surveying the topography and current vegetation, we lay out the main cross feature of the design to ascertain if it’s location needs to be adjusted in any way.