Originally the site at Leavesden was a second world war airfield and aircraft production base for the Mosquito fighter and Halifax bomber. After the war, Rolls-Royce acquired the site for producing aeroplane and helicopter engines. When they left in the early 1990s the site became a film studio, and in 1994 the James Bond film GoldenEye was filmed there.
Since then, films including the eight Harry Potter films, Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur, and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation have been filmed at the site.
Over the years around £150 million has been spent developing the 200 acre site. The latest phase of expansion at the site will cost tens of millions of pounds. As part of this work, earthworks contractor Spadeoak was contracted to build new car parking areas as the land where they had built car parking previously was being reclaimed for new buildings.
Wrekin’s MultiTrack 1000 non woven geotextile was laid on the formation to provide separation and filtration.