Case Study - Aerial progress photography for Tawd Valley, Skelmersdale

Overview

The Junction 4 development at White Moss Business Park is the first contract awarded by Tawd Valley Developments — the wholly-owned development arm of West Lancashire Borough Council — as part of a wider £200m regeneration of Skelmersdale. The scheme delivers around 100,000 sq ft of industrial space across forty-five new business units, capable of sustaining up to 125 jobs once fully let, and sits directly off Junction 4 of the M58 with excellent links to the M6 and the wider North West.

RMT Visuals attended site to capture a single, comprehensive progress visit for Caddick Construction in May 2026, with the scheme in its late finishing stages — steel frames topped out, roofs and cladding largely complete, and external works under way. The brief was to produce a clean, marketing-ready record of the development in its landscape: the new units against open Lancashire countryside on one flank and the M58 corridor on the other.

Every flight was planned and flown under CAA authorisation, with a site-specific risk assessment agreed with the Caddick site team in advance so that capture never interrupted live works on the ground.

The site in its setting

The first run of stills was flown from a higher altitude to place the scheme in its wider context — the M58 motorway and the network of business parks to the west, set against open farmland to the east.

On the ground

To balance the aerial work, we captured a small number of ground-level frames inside the central access road — strong, simple compositions that show the scale of the unit shells and the quality of the build in a way no plan or render can.

The wider context

A final pair of frames places the scheme back into its town-scale setting — Skelmersdale spreading out to the horizon, the motorway running past, the new units anchoring the south-east edge of the business park.

What we did