The largest urban area in Cornwall carries the county's heaviest development pipeline and its most complicated ground. Strip out, demolition, clearance, groundworks, drainage and structural concrete delivered under one contract, to your engineer's drawing and inside your programme.
Camborne and Redruth is the biggest urban area in Cornwall by population and it behaves nothing like the coastal towns west of it. There is more commercial and industrial floorspace here, more housing coming forward, and more work let through main contractors and developers rather than direct to a homeowner. The buyer on this page is usually running a programme, not a project.
The ground is why that programme needs respecting. This district is the historic heart of Cornish hard-rock mining and sits inside the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. Beneath Pool, Tuckingmill, Barncoose, Tolvaddon and the ground under Carn Brea and South Crofty, made ground, spoil, backfill and historic workings are well documented and genuinely variable across a single plot. Two trial holes twenty metres apart can tell two different stories.
That is why a site investigation earns its money here more than almost anywhere else in the county, and why the foundation solution follows the findings rather than the other way round. It is established before anything is dug, not discovered halfway through.
Redevelopment of brownfield frontage around Heartlands and Illogan adds the other constant: most sites need clearing and taking down before they can be built on, so demolition and groundworks want to be the same conversation.
Controlled demolition and structural strip outs on commercial and residential stock, with waste removed and recycled and the statutory notices allowed for in the sequence.
Site clearance, muck away, bulk excavation, setting out and foundations on brownfield and infill plots where the ground varies across the site.
Structural concrete, foundations, formwork, steel fixing and retaining walls, poured to the engineer's design and checked before the wagon arrives.
Turnkey construction and design and build, traditional masonry and timber frame, extensions and structural work including propping and steels.
Foul and surface water, sewer connections, land drainage and attenuation sized against the discharge rate the scheme has been given consent on.
External works, parking areas, steps and boundary structures completed as part of the contract rather than left for someone else.
One contractor across the whole sequenceStrip out, demolition, clearance, groundworks, drainage and concrete under one contract, which removes the handovers that cost a programme its float.
£5m public liability, including groundworks and demolition up to 15 metresDemolition is excluded outright by a large share of policies in this trade, and on a district where most sites start with a take down, that matters at prequalification.
Working to architects' and engineers' drawingsReinforced concrete, foundations, piling-related works and attenuation delivered under external structural engineers' direction.
A director who is on the site, not behind a deskMatt Richards prices the work, attends the site himself and operates the machine.
A quote written to be read against a tender, with the scope, the sequence and the ground assumptions set out, which is how development work in this district gets awarded.
Work here tends to start with a building coming down and finish with a slab going in: clearance, demolition, bulk dig, foundations, drainage and attenuation. The nearest published examples of the structural end of that are the St Ives retaining wall and the cliffside restoration on 65 piles.
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The district sits at the eastern end of the area we work in week to week, with the A30 running along the top of it.
The full map sits on our areas we cover across west Cornwall page.
Send the drawings, the postcode, the site investigation if you have one and the dates you are working to. Matt will come and look at access, levels, what is coming down and where the water goes.
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14 The Strand, Newlyn, Penzance, TR18 5HN
Phone: 07958 102538
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Last updated: 22 September 2026
