GWP Consultants - Design. One of the few UK consultancies with in-depth experience in the design of large quarries and opencast mines, and development schemes involving significant earthworks, GWP's designs are acknowledged by clients, Mineral Planning Authorities, the Planning Inspectorate and by central government as being of a very high standard in both practical and environmental terms. As a result, we achieve a high level of success on behalf of clients with respect to mineral planning applications. Frequently, the context of our design activities is the preparation of supporting information for planning or licence applications and their associated environmental impact and risk assessments. Our quarry designs show, in detail, how a mineral operation or earthworks scheme will develop from start to finish. The working layouts, restoration landforms and working methods proposed take account of all relevant production, geotechnical, safety and environmental targets and constraints. Particular attention is paid to the accommodation of waste in temporary storage or final restoration. They demonstrate to regulatory authorities, our clients and the public that operations can be implemented economically, safely and with a minimum of impact on the environment. We produce designs that give rise to final restoration landforms that are compatible with the surrounding landscape and with sympathetic after-use in mind. Design is necessarily an inter-disciplinary process and generally requires close and interactive working relationships with other specialists. We have a well developed network of other specialist firms and individuals with whom we collaborate on a regular basis to deliver a complete service to clients. GWP has considerable knowledge and experience relating to landfill design, specification and construction. Our expertise in related disciplines, such as geotechnical engineering and hydrology, ensures that designs are stable, safe and will satisfy the demands of increasingly stringent environmental legislation in the UK, continental Europe and elsewhere in the world. We offer a full construction design and supervision service to landfill operators. This includes surveying and the related accurate verification of waste, liner and cap levels and thicknesses as well as the provision of experienced Construction Quality Assurance Monitors and Engineers. We create landfill designs that: are prepared in accordance with best practice whilst taking into account economic and logistical factors that may affect site development, operation or long term sustainability; include innovative features that allow efficient and safe working and maximise void space, whilst maintaining the highest level of protection for the environment; meet the requirements of the Landfill Directive as interpreted in national legislation and regulations; use both natural and synthetic lining and capping materials combined with leachate and gas management systems.