HMS Ganges, Suffolk -

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Land, Measured Building & Underground Utilities Survey

HMS Ganges, Suffolk

Fully integrated survey for 60 acre HMS Ganges site

Situated on the Shotley Peninsula on the southern end of the Suffolk coast is the now derelict Royal Navy training establishment, HMS Ganges. The site which extends across 60 acres is now subject to development plans. Surveying it involved several interesting challenges, including avoiding potentially unstable underground bunkers and ensuring our work did not disturb or harm a protected species of bat.

Named after the cadet training ship HMS Ganges that was berthed in 1899 and retired in 1905, the Naval training facility remained open and active until 1976. It was later opened as a police training centre, but has remained derelict since its closure at the end of the 1990s. The site which extends across 60 acres¹ is now subject to development plans, which will include eco-focused houses, care housing, retail and sports facilities, office space, a hotel and café, as well as landscaped public open space, new biodiverse meadow planting, treelined avenues and children’s play areas. It is hoped the development will be completed by early 2025.

A team from our local Ipswich office were delighted to be asked by the developer to survey the entire site as part of its initial investigative planning and development works.

The surveying works included conducting measured building surveys on three historic buildings – including the site’s old swimming pool, and two listed buildings – Vincent House and Nelson House. It is proposed that these buildings will be redeveloped. Nelson House, the former drill hall, will be restored and redeveloped to create a public library and large café space¹. The developers therefore wanted to understand the floor plans, sections, structural details and elevations of each building.

3D laser scanners were used to accurately measure and record the required data, with high definition output quickly and accurately provided via 2D plans. We also provided Revit models to allow everyone working on a building project to collaborate within shared models and import, export and link data.

The biggest undertaking of this project was the topographical survey of the 60 acre site, which was conducted using traditional total stations. The developers needed an accurate and detailed representation of the site’s layout including all physical hard and soft features above the ground, including site access roads. Because the entire area had been derelict for so long, there was dense vegetation which made access to certain areas, especially one of the site’s boundaries, particularly challenging.

Perhaps the biggest challenge were the numerous World War II bunkers dotted around the site, most of which had been filled in, but were deemed unsafe to walk on top of. Our surveyors had to avoid the bunkers, but make sure their locations were recorded.

To understand what utility services lay below ground, as well as the precise location of the services, we conducted a utility survey across the site using both Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Electromagnetic Location (EML). EML works by introducing a signal onto a specific utility, facilitating the positive identification, tracing and tracking of services, whereas GPR operates by emitting a radar pulse into the ground and analysing the reflections it receives to create an image of the subsurface. The results of the utility survey were provided as CAD drawings and PDFs.

Having been made aware that the site was home to a protected species of bat, we worked closely with the developer’s allocated ecologist to ensure that none of our surveys disturbed or harmed the bats or any other protected species and ecosystems.