Darlands Lake, North London

Client: London Borough of Barnet
Value: £150,000
Date of work: June – September 2006

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Darlands Lake, Totteridge in North London is a leisure facility created in the late 18 th century by the damming of Folly Brook.

In June 2006 after a competitive tender we were employed by the London Borough of Barnet to carry out a number of safety and amenity improvements. These involved:

• the installation of stone filled gabions as a retaining wall on the lakeside of the dam and then the raising of the clay dam
• the reconstruction of the southern lake outfall involving a reinforced concrete weir and footbridge abutments followed by a stone filled mattress and gabion channel and a new timber footbridge
• the reconstruction of the northern lake outfall by creating a new pitched stone channel, sympathetically refurbishing the existing brickwork and a second timber footbridge
• the creation of a new stone walkway throughout the length of the dam.

The contract was completed in September 2006 with a contract value in excess of £150,000.