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PROUD OF OUR PAST AND INSPIRED BY OUR SETTING WE’RE INSPIRED BY OUR NATURAL GREEN SETTING WE’RE PROUD OF OUR PLACE IN BOXMOOR’S HISTORY The land north and south of the site is protected greenspace owned and managed by the Box Moor Trust who have been in operation for over 400 years. The Trust is responsible for sympathetically managing and protecting land for the benefit The Hemel Hempstead Gas Light and Coke Company started operating from the site in 1835. As demand grew, the of future generations. Nature conservation is at the core of the Trust’s work. The land to the south of the site on the other company was ever evolving and became the Box Moor, Two Waters and Crouchfield Gas and Coke Company in 1868 side of the railway, is vital unimproved chalk grassland which includes the Roughdown SSSI (Site of Specific Scientific and then became the Hemel Hempstead District Gas Company in 1878 when it merged with a rival company. Interest) where there are a number of scarce species that need protection. The land to the north of the site (Hardings The 1883 historic map illustrates that the gasworks only occupied the eastern part of the site when it first started Moor and Bulbourne Moor) is ancient grazing meadows with a pristine chalk stream running through the middle. operating with the western part of the site being part of the gardens and orchards of the Duckhall Estate. We are committed to working with the Box Moor Trust to ensure that our landscape proposals can respond to these In order to satisfy the ever-increasing demand the gasworks had to scale up and by 1945 operations had extended biodiverse landscapes and surrounding habitats. to the central section of the site. When the gasworks was operating at its full capacity in the 1960’s it extended to the western section of the site. Advances in new gas infrastructure and technologies in the 1970’s resulted in the gasholders becoming redundant and replaced with a Pressure Regulation Station to the east of the site, which still remains there today. The full decommissioning of the gasworks commenced in 2014 with the gasholders being dismantled and the ancillary buildings being gradually demolished. The final stage of the decommissioning was in 2020 when Cadent installed a new high pressure gas main enabling the site to come forward for residential end use. The photos below illustrate the evolution of the Hemel Hempstead Gasworks. BOXMOOR STATION (1837) & NICKEY LINE (1877) BULBOURNE MOOR ORCHIDS ON ROUGHDOWN COMMON THE GRAND JUNCTION CANAL (1798) BOXMOOR, TWO WATERS AND CROUCHFIELD GAS AND COKE COMPANY LTD. (1868) CATTLE GRAZING IN HARDING’S MOOR 1883 HISTORIC MAP (SITE OUTLINED IN RED) GASWORKS OPERATING AT FULL CAPACITY IN THE 1970’S PROUD TO BE A PART OF THE BERKELEY GROUP OF COMPANIES.

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