Land Drainage Consultancy

General information

Land Drainage Consultancy was founded in 2003. Based in East Yorkshire, we have a team of consultants and surveyors distributed throughout the UK. We work for a wide range of clients throughout the UK and Ireland on a large variety of projects.

Our consultants have many years of training and experience behind them, and are highly respected in the industry. We pride ourselves in being able to identify land drainage problems and provide practical and economical solutions. A significant part of our work is communicating, liasing and negotiating with landowners, farmers and their agents, often on a day to day basis.

We have a specialist dedicated Soil Science department which has undertaken many detailed pre-entry soil and agricultural land classification surveys on major developments. We have investigated and mitigated complex soils and reinstatement issues across the UK and abroad.

Often we use our in-house excavation team to help us investigate in more detail existing drainage and soils, and to install remediation drainage features where necessary.

We have strong relationships with drainage contractors of all sizes througout the UK who we employ to install larger drainage schemes.

We use the very latest in survey technology to enable us to get accurate and highly detailed data back to our dedicated cartography team who work alongside our consultants and surveyors to create highly detailed maps, plans and publications.

Our senior consultants are also trained as expert witnesses in their' fields, representing a wide range of clients throughout the UK in court, and act on behalf of the Environment Agency in Agricultural Land Tribunals.

At LDC we recognise that Health and Safety is paramount and we are both familiar with and experienced in meeting often complex and demanding Health and Safety requirements and we do everything in our power to create a safe and healthy working environment.

Ongoing and Recent Projects:

Carbon Capture & Storage Scheme - Yorkshire
Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Cable Route - Yorkshire
Westernmost Rough Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Cable Route - Yorkshire
Navitus Bay Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Cable Route - Southampton
Wirral Offshore Wind Farm Onshore Cable Route - West Coast
Easington - Pannal High Pressure NG Gas Pipe
Spennymoor Overhead Lines - Middlesborough
Overhead Lines - Ipswich
Overhead Lines - Kings Lynn
National Grid Remediation Drainage Works on Existing Gas Pipelines throughout the UK
Selby Bypass - Yorkshire
Reighton Bypass - Yorkshire
A1 (Dishforth-Bedale) - Yorkshire
Many Major Wind Farms throughout the UK

Creamfields Music Festival Remediation Drainage
Agricultural Lands Tribunal/Expert Witness work across the UK/Ireland
Water Management cheme at Thoresby Colliers
Land Drainage Design at Stobswood Open Cast Coal Site
Many Soils/Waste Management projects
Designing Post-Overhead Line Construction Lake Project with Emphasis on Wildlife/Conservation - Nottingham

Current and Previous Clients:


National Grid
United Utilities
Balfour Beatty
Prysmian
Morrisons
Bentleys
Mott Macdonald
RWE
Eon
Yorkshire Water
Murphys
Blackwell
EnergyLine
The Electricity Alliance
The Environment Agency
National Trust
UK Coal Mining Ltd
The Coal Authority
Hanson Aggregates
Lafarge
ADAS Consulting Ltd
ARUP
Fisher German Priestner
Laing O'Rouke
Costains
Severn Trent
Wessex Water
County Councils
Farmers and Land Owners
Drainage Contractors