Civcon were brought in to excavate and reconstruct the car park and walkway at Welfare Park. The existing surfaces were worn out — uneven in places, draining poorly, and past the point where patching made sense. The decision was to dig out and rebuild properly rather than work over the top of what was already there.
The scope covered full excavation of the car park and walkway, kerb installation around the full car park perimeter, a new northern footway, and sub-base stoning throughout to formation level. Everything needed to tie into existing road and parking surfaces on site, so getting levels accurate early on was the priority — it’s a lot harder to correct once the kerbs are in.
The park stays in use year round. There’s no quiet period where the car park sits empty and the paths go unused, which meant the programme had to be built around keeping reasonable access open throughout rather than treating the site as a blank canvas. The most disruptive phases were planned and managed accordingly.
Kerbs went in around the full perimeter first, setting the boundary for the car park. The northern footway was formed alongside the main car park works — it had been poorly defined before and the new construction gives it a clear, permanent edge. Once the kerb lines and footway were established, sub-base stoning went down across both areas, compacted to formation level.
The tarmac surfacing isn’t in Civcon’s scope. That comes later with a separate contractor, and when it does go down it’ll need to connect cleanly with what’s already on site. The groundworks have been completed to make that straightforward.
The site is better than it was. Level, properly formed, with a kerb line that defines the space and a footway that actually works. The more involved part of the job was managing all of that inside a park that didn’t stop being used while the work was going on.
