Chester News

Lanes Group wins drainage services contract for Mersey Gateway

04/11/2015

Lanes Group has won a contract to deliver drainage survey and maintenance services to the Mersey Gateway project – the project to build a second road crossing over the Mersey in Halton. Drainage engineers based at the Lanes Group depot in Chester are working for the Merseylink Civil Contractors Joint Venture – a joint venture…

Lanes Group works with groundworks teams at prison site

22/10/2015

Lanes Group has won contracts to provide specialist drainage services for all five groundworks companies working on the development site for the new North Wales Prison. The company’s Chester depot is managing the work, which currently involves carrying out CCTV drainage surveys, drain cleansing and drain unblocking at the site on Wrexham Industrial Estate. The…

Digging holes in the road is not a patch on Lanes technology

21/10/2015

Lanes Group has proved its no dig drain repair technology is a much better solution than excavation when speed and cost-control is of the essence. A highway construction contractor called in drainage engineers at the Lanes depot in Chester after spikes were driven through a pipe by mistake. The damage to the surface water drain…

Surf’s up in the mountains of North Wales!

07/08/2015

Surf Snowdonia – a unique sports attraction developed with specialist drainage support from Lanes Group – has opened to public acclaim. The amazing inland water sports centre, nestled beneath the mountains of Snowdonia, generates the longest man-made surfing waves in the world. And the beauty of it is, each wave at the Surf Snowdonia Wavegarden…

Lanes Group drainage surveys support spine road development

04/06/2015

Lanes Group has been commissioned to clean and survey the drainage system for a new spine road being built to join hundred homes and the local communities together on the site of a former steelworks. The road is being built by civil engineering contractor McPhillips (Wellington) Ltd at the former Brymbo steelworks site in Wrexham, north Wales. Local…