The Telford Langley School is a secondary school with academy status, located in the Dawley area of Telford in Shropshire, England. The school has around 1000 students, who benefit from state of the art educational facilities and sports facilities. The sport facilities are also open for community use. The construction of the brand new school was part of Telford & Wrekin Council’s £200m ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme back in 2013. The project also attracted a £1.5m contribution from Sport England, enabling many sports facilities encluding an 8-court sports hall, national standard BMX track, a full size pitch for rugby and football and Health and Fitness Suite.

SPEL worked on a design for the client, Telford & Wrekin Council, to use SPEL’s 600 Series (4m internal diameter) Tankstor range for attenuating stormwater from the site. The capacity required was 880m2 so 4 no. 220,000 litre SPEL Tankstors were interlinked at low level to provide the capacity. The attenuation tank required controlled release, and instead of having a separate chamber for a flow control device, the device was fitted within the final SPEL Tankstor, leading to a simpler and more cost effective installation by removing the need for a separate chamber. To reduce installation costs, these tanks were installed in a pea gravel backfill, reducing expensive and often time restrained concrete installations.