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See also: Motor fuel market in Russia. History and prospects, Peculiarities of LHG filling stations design, Peculiarities of filling stations design
Design and construction of filling stations
One of the main areas of activities of LLC “Specialized Constructive Bureau” is a development of project documentation and installation of technological equipment of filling stations of different types, complexities and scopes, including:
1. Design of the wide-range filling stations – filling stations which territory has provision for filling transport with two or three types of fuel, among of which liquid gas fuel is permitted to use (petroleum and diesel fuel oil), LHG (liquefied hydrocarbon gas) and compressed natural gas.
2. Design of fuel-supply points – filling stations placed on the territory of an enterprise and destined for filling transport of this enterprise exclusively.
3. Design of traditional filling stations – filling stations with technological systems destined for filling transport with liquid gas fuel exclusively and characterized by an underground arrangement of tanks and their fuel-dispensing units.
4. Development of project documentation on modular filling stations – filling stations with technological systems destined for filling transport with liquid gas fuel exclusively and characterized by an underground arrangement of tanks and placement of fuel-dispensing units over the fuel storage rack, made as an integrated factory product.
5. Design of LHG filling stations – filling stations with technological systems destined for LHG filling of trucks, special-purpose motor vehicles, automobiles.
The list stated above is not all-round and doesn’t show all the peculiarities of different types and kinds of filling stations.
Apart from the traditional filling stations LLC “SCB” works on development of project documentation on the construction of substandard filling stations and fuel-supply points, including:
- design of stations for large vehicle filling;
- design of filling stations of dual-use (for automobile and water transport filling);
- design of stations for locomotive filling;
- design of dead stations for light aircraft filling;
If we speak about a standard filling station (for automobile filling) in the process of a capital project development one should consider a range of peculiarities, choose the conception and take into consideration the requirements imposing on the service of a filling station of any type (to create and maintain a normal competitive level),for example:
1. Availability of the accompanying goods shop (vehicle oils, food products, cigarettes and others).
2. Availability of minimal complete set of fuel assortment (diesel fuel oil, gasoline 80 octane, gasoline 92 octane, gasoline 95 octane).
3. A good quality of a fuel being sold.
4. Presence of service station attendants.
5. A good of quality of building finishes, elaborate area planning, styling modern enough.
The requirements often imposed on the service of filling stations for creating and maintaining the dominant positions among the rival filling stations:
1. Design and construction of filling stations as a part of service station and convenience retailing consisting of a way-side inn (in case of placing of filling stations on the highway), car service station (vehicle service station, car wash), shop or mini-market, bistro or small café.
2. Availability of a full assortment of fuels (diesel fuel oil, gasoline 80 octane, gasoline 92 octane, gasoline 95 octane, gasoline 98 octane, LHG).
3. A good quality of a fuel being sold.
4. Presence of service station attendants having a special training.
5. A set of free consumer services (cleaning of glasses and so on), availability of affinity cards and discounts.
6. Modern and stylish design, elaborate planning and a high-quality performance of a refueling complex.
Filling station lighting is an important factor which makes a trade name easy to remember.
Many years experience in the area of filling stations exploitation show that with a wide range of consumer services and a good quality of fuel, increase in the number of filling stations customers is about 10-50% (including permanent customers – in 20-50 %) in comparison with “empty” filling stations, and complex return increase as a whole (with additional consumer services and with clients increasing) can be 60-90% at an average, i.e. half as much again or twice as much. Besides premises can be effectually rented. There are firms with activity areas in trade for filling stations only.
There are also other ways of attracting clients to a filling station – for example, using a corporate identity and a famous trade name (franchise) is described below.
Choosing a complexity of a filling station (LHG filling station) and a service station and convenience retailing
Today at the time of a large growth in dead filling stations construction some additional consumer services at the station become an important competitive advantage (especially placed on the suburban highways) which enable not only to attract more clients to the filling station but to profit from the very service station. Turnover ratio in a shop near the station is known to be 20% of a total turnover of a filling station. A right planning of the territory and a well-done organization of spacing of contractions and buildings are of no less importance. In general a complex should be a consistent balanced assembly of constructions and buildings united by a consistent architectural style, consistent color and design decisions. As it’s shown in practice a special attention should be paid to advertising –placing of advertising banners in the right place near the filling station or on the way to it enable to attract a lot of new clients.
Complex of service manning of drivers and passengers of automobiles and trucks as well as passengers of regular and tourist buses may consist of the following constructions:
Complex buildings
For those who spend much time driving a good motel with a modern laundry and other modern conveniences are of great importance. It is easier and more convenient for truck drivers to stay once, have a rest in comfort and buy everything they need. On the ground floor of the main building a fast-dining restaurant can be designed with 30-80 seats. The enterprise can also deal with fast serving of large passenger traffic at the moment of arrival of a number of regular or tourist buses – in this case the restaurant is designed for 120-180 seats. From a dining room of the restaurant there is a way to an outdoor summer site where should the Customer want, there might be a sidewalk café or a recreation center and so on. On the ground floor there also might be a sauna, easements, manufacturing facilities, maintenance.
On the first floor of the complex there might be 5-7 hotel rooms (one of them is Luxe hotel room) for drivers and passengers to have a rest. One can enter a sauna situated on the ground floor by going downstairs from the first floor out of the hall of the hotel rooms. Access to the sauna for the customers of the ground floor is not provided.
According to a great number of owners of filling stations, placing on the territory of a vehicle service station providing with oil change, computer-assisted diagnostics of cars (motor, chassis, electrical equipment and so on), chassis repairing, tire fitting etc. is a very profitable business in particular provided that a vehicle service station is placed in a “favorable” place.
A car wash of high-quality is always in a greater demand than that made in a slipshod manner. In a big city under the high competitiveness conditions one should do their best to have a car wash called a car wash of high quality and to have a lot of clients. And to succeed one should choose the right mechanism of a car wash operation and the equipment. Car washes can be of different operation mechanism. The most wide-spread car washes are manual ones, i.e. cleaners using apparatus of high pressure wash away a basic mud and a more thorough cleaning is made manually with chemical goods. They wash away with clean water using apparatus of high pressure and then dry with wash leather. This is a very thorough way of cleaning providing with a care attitude to a lacquer coating. Another type of a car wash is an automatic portal cleaning. This involves a minimum of the staff and there is increase in carrying capacity of a car wash. The disadvantage is a possible wear-out of lacquer coating with frequent usage of this kind of cleaning. It’s profitable to install portal cleanings on a high carrying capacity of trucks and cars, i.e. cleaning of this kind of a transport manually takes much time and the quality of it comes short of satisfactory. You can get a more detailed information on the auto service sector on the page “Car service centers and car washes”.
A filling station is designed
for filling of cars, trucks, buses with liquefied hydrocarbon gas (LHG) or liquid
fuel gas. (filling stations, LHG filling stations, wide-range filing stations)
When developing a project on construction or reconstruction of an old filling station the question of choosing a filling station complexity (as an independent facility or as a part of a service station and a convenience retailing is always aroused:
1. Assortment and fuel volume of storage at a filling station
According to the investigation of the Academy of manufacturing market conjecture at present the total production volume of motor gasoline is mainly (about 57%) for gasoline 92 octane, gasoline 30 octane and 13% is for gasoline 80 octane, gasoline 76 octane and gasoline 95 octane, gasoline 85 octane. Only 0.4% is for gasoline 98 octane, gasoline 88 octane which is of the highest quality. It is mainly used by drivers of the imported cars which are in operation on the territory of Russia. Due to its low operating and ecological characteristics the production of gasoline 80 octane is going down. According to 2007 data this slowdown was 30% in comparison with 2000. The production of gasoline 92 octane is increasing consistently, increase is 87,6 % for 7 years. The production of gasoline 95 octane and gasoline 98 octane as those meeting the European demands on ecology and operation and as the most competitive ones at the home and world markets has greatly increased (from 2000 to 2006) - 3,1 и 2,9 times as much accordingly. But with reference to the other gasoline grades their ratio is rather small as yet, especially this regards gasoline 98 octane: compared with gasoline 92 octane it’s 146,5 times less (2006). In general refineries reduce the production of low-octane gasoline and increase the production of high-octane gasoline (including gasoline 98 octane) and diesel fuel oil.
The first thing to replace petroleum is gas. Usage of liquefied hydrocarbon gas (propane-butane) as a petrol makes it possible to improve the ecological characteristics of a vehicle which is especially important in metropolises. Apart from it LHG filling station costs half as much than gasoline 95 octane which causes growth in popularity among the cars using this kind of fuel.
In such a way taking into consideration a modern structure of the automobile fuel market one can say that a filling station claiming its high popularity and taking its place in a competitive activity is to provide with a full set of the products consumed. Including:
It’s not infrequently that choosing the type of a filling station (traditional filling station, LHG filling station, wide-range filling station) depends on a specialization of an enterprise-owner of the station. Some people have LHG as a main field of their activity, others prefer using petroleum and diesel fuel oil. That is why in order to increase a competitive advantage of the station, to slowdown the operation costs for construction or reconstruction of a filling station some companies make joint filling stations with gas section for one firm and petroleum section for another one. As it was stated such an approach reduces considerably the construction investments and results in increasing of clients but sometimes it causes some difficulties in cooperation with the firm-partners.
Beyond any doubt the extension of proper opportunities : for those specialized in LHG there is an entry into a petroleum market, and vice versa -will be fruitful.
A single and a bulk volume of liquid gas fuel storage tanks should be chosen for each Customer and each filling station on a case-by-case basis depending on the remoteness of the station from the tank farm, on a cargo turn-over and so on.
2. How many fuel-dispensing units does a filling station require? (if there are no forehanded restrictions, for example on the size of a territory)
It’s not uncommon: a filling station with a great number of fuel-dispensing units and a well-elaborated additional service system with a lot of permanent clients but its area and what is even more important - the number of a fuel-dispensing equipment makes it possible to serve 2 or 3 times as much clients. At the same time sometimes we can see the opposite situation: on a large area of the site near the road with a heavy traffic there is a filling station of 2-3 units and it has a long queue of those wanting to fill there. We can easily observe the main mistakes and their consequences both in the first and the second cases. In the first case excessive expensive units actually not used make a payback period longer, increase the filling upkeep cost. It can’t help having a negative influence on the revenues of the filling station. There’re disadvantages in the second case as well: nobody likes to queue, that is why the clients try to fill at some other place which brings about the loss of clients. It also results in having the staff unable to pay enough attention to each client due to their heavy workload and this is not a good thing for a filling station. Moreover the equipment of such a station is in increased wear-out, being a reason for the constant breakdowns, making additional hold-ups, forcing the clients to fill at some other place. Popularity and a further work of the whole filling station is determined by a choice of optimum quantity of fuel-dispensing units. Besides the area of a wall construction (which cost is high as well) is in direct dependence on the number of units, that is why there is a question under consideration : how many units should be installed at the station?
First of all the choice of the number of fuel-dispensing units is determined by the number of clients filling at this station. For this purpose during a few weeks there will be a daily calculation of the number of vehicles passing by the filling station. It’s important to notice that both cars and trucks are under calculation. The next step is to measure the distance to the filling station of the nearby rivals which will enable to determine approximately the rate of clients. If a nearby filling station is situated in no more than 20 kilometers from the siting – in this case the rate of clients will be 5-7% of the total stream of cars. If the distance to the nearest filling station is 50 kilometers, the rate of clients will be 7-12%. If some 10 000 cars per day pass by the site and a filling station of the nearby client is 50 kilometers from there – we can assume that the number of the filling station clients will be 1000 cars.
At an average every car is filled with 30 liters of fuel and this results in 30 tons of oil product per day. At an average filling stations in Russia implement from 20 to 30 tons of oil product per day which means about 1000 clients. We should also take into consideration a daily variation of freight traffic. Most of the transport is on the highway from 6 am to 11 am. the next flow is from 2 pm to 7 pm, there’re also a great number of night riders – the rush hour is from midnight to 3 am. Out of the rush hours the traffic load is reduced by 30-50%.
For a more detailed calculation one should determine how much time a car will spend on filling. It is influenced by a number of factors: the speed of a unit supplying with fuel and the time required to make clearing and settlements. The time of actual filling with fuel is seldom more than one minute that is why this factor is of the least importance. The next factor is the time required for prepayment of the fuel released. This factor can be various depending on the type of a station and the maintenance method (payment by means of a service station attendant or individually ).
When going to a filling station which has no provision but for oil products it’s necessary for a client or a service station attendant to come to the pay-office to pay for fuel, to make a calculation, to wait for the fiscal check being typed and to return to the car. It will take 2-3 minutes more, and then a client can leave the filling station. At such filling stations it will take 4-6 minutes to drive up to the fuel-dispensing unit, to prepay for fuel and to make an actual filling of one car which enables to fill about ten cars pet hour from the one-sided unit and twenty cars from a double-sided one. The appropriate number of units for such a station with 1000 clients will be three double-sided multi-commodity fuel-dispensing units but there can also be two double-sided multi-commodity fuel-dispensing units.
If at a filling station there is a small shop under design with a traditional system of goods realization (by means of a salesman) and a cash operating unit situated in the building - in this case it will take every car 10-15 minutes to make operations near the fuel-dispensing unit. A customer has time to run an eye over the good offered, to buy a bubble gum or a chocolate and to pay for fuel. That is why provided that there’re 1000 clients at this station it will require not less than 5 multi-commodity, double-sided units or one-sided units twice as much. It’s also desirable to have a high-production unit for diesel fuel oil to fill trucks. Besides it’s necessary to make a provision for some space to stop cars out of the fuel-dispensing unit area.
If there is a plan on construction of a large filling station complex with all the additional services and a shop of self-service system, a Customer will spend about 10-15 minutes at this complex. During this time a Customer can run an eye over 50 % of the goods offered. With 1000 cars at a filling station per day it will take not less than seven double-sided multi commodity units to prevent from having a queue and to make a Customer feel comfortable . Yet there is some difficult point in this situation. It’s necessary to keep a Customer for the longest time possible. The more a Customer stays in a salesroom the more the probability of their buying some good. On the other hand, a fuel-dispensing unit costs too much, therefore one should make a decision on what to choose on their own.
Furthermore on leaving their car near the unit most of the clients of a filling station feel uncomfortable and for their feeling good it’s necessary to make large windows and to design a shop regularly – for the Customers to have an ability to see their vehicle near the unit. A client came for filling with fuel won’t stay at a shop for more than 25 minutes. The first thing to do for the Customers who come to a shop or a café directly is parking their cars. Therefore for those planning to construct a new filling station or to reconstruct an old one there is a grave task to solve: to determine what exactly filling station they are intended to build, what shop to open, which additional services to implement. And what is the most important thing: it’s necessary to determine an adequate number of fuel-dispensing units which will have a great impact both on the image of the very station and on its pay-back period.
3. Should one make a provision for a shop at a filling station? Selection of planning and determination of the building area.
As it was said above, filling stations without a shop of the accompanying goods (mini-market)-become a history with time and can be found few and far between. That’s why first of all it’s important to find a good reason for its absence and not for its availability. And as for the site required for the shop and the assortment of the goods offered, the arrangement of premises as a whole – all these issues are of grave elaboration both from the financial, marketing and technological, functional points of view. Taking into account the experience in the area of filling station operation we can say that:
- For a small station it’s enough to have a building area of 60-70 square meters (including a salesroom – 25 square meters, an operator’s shack – 9 square meters).
- For an average and large filling station it’s necessary to have a building area of no less than 80-100 square meters. And with placing a café in the building apart from the shop, the operator’s shack and the back office locations – no less than 150-180 square meters.
Trucks parking
Regular and sightseeing buses
parking
To place parking it’s necessary to have quite a large area of the site and the asphalt coating therefore they are envisaged as a rule for large complexes exclusively (mainly on busy federal highways) with a wide range of service system (VVS – vehicle service stations, an inn, a café, a car wash etc.)
Clients car parking
It is advised to envisage a parking for automobiles regardless of the type and the capacity of filling stations. With a shop at a filling station there is a provision for the place for a convenient entrance, stop and departure for at least four cars.
Customers recreation area
It’s also topical for the average and large filling stations.
Procedure of development of fillings stations and LHG filling stations project
According to the RF Government Ordinance dated February 16, 2008 №87, the following basic data and conditions for the preparation of the project documentation for capital construction object are required:
Permission to deviate from the design margin of the capital construction objects authorized for constructing;
Design and construction of filling stations, LHG filling stations (site selection, land acquisition)
Before choosing this or that site in order to prevent from emerging any difficulties with dimensions or layout of the site, existence of the neighboring objects etc., it’s advisable to consult with our experts. As the need arises we shall come to see the site and shall give our recommendations and estimates.
Getting the site for construction of a filling station is known to take much time and energy: the number of agencies which you should visit to get the permissions looks really impressive. The very list of the documents required for getting this land plot makes your mind boggle. None of the government institutions of the Russian Federation will provide you with these documents voluntarily.
Construction of a filling station is anxious and costly business including a great number of associative events which are practically impossible not to take into consideration. The whole procedure – from making a decision on constructing a filling station to the first car showing up on its territory – can be divided symbolically into 4 stages: getting the land, development and confirmation of the working draft, the very construction and its bringing into operation. All these stages comprise a great deal of little steps to the final result – starting a filling station. There are a lot of means of overcoming of the emerging difficulties. One organizations find some phases simple, another ones find them difficult but there is one thing similar for everyone: the most difficult and troublesome business is to get a site for construction of a filling station (especially in metropolises and on the federal highways).
As an inheritance from the USSR the CIS countries got a heavy layer of officials in charge of coordination of the construction. If everything is possible to correct when coordinating a working draft, the issue on getting a land plot is not the same. A negative reply of at least one agency will automatically annul all the positive resolutions received before.
The “easiest” agencies to give a positive reply are: fire engineering service, Sanitary-Epidemiological Service, Department of Lands, environmental committee. The most “severe” agency is a fire management the regulations of which are very strict. It is these instructions which should be taken as a basis when choosing the very site.
First of all one should remember that in such cities as Moscow, Kiev or Minsk there is a law on capitals and all the final decisions are made by the city councils after the district councils confirming, and in the towns situated on the territory of a region – by the regional councils after conforming with the district councils.
A procedure of receiving a site for construction of a filling station (LHG filling station, wide-range filling station) begins with a definition of a type, a capacity, a complexity of the station and with a selection of the site for construction. This selection is to be based on the fire protection regulations with determining a maximum distance from the territory of a filling station under construction to the facilities not applied to it. And if the fire protection regulations permit to place a filling station on this site, you can be sure that you will have no problems with other issues related as well.
At this stage it’s reasonable to come to an agreement in principle on construction of the station with the authorities of this city (capital) or region. This arrangement will be of much use when settling different kinds of disagreements and will prevent from emerging the conflicts with the local authorities. The next step is to address a request to the Department of Lands to determine a territorial quality of the site selected. After the reconnaissance investigations are put into practice a letter in the owner’s favor with a request to provide with a site for placing of the road service facility from a filling station is written and in case of their approval – the same letter with the copies of the letter attached to it signed by the landowner, regional and city authorities is sent to the local council. The council doesn’t make such decisions on its own, it assigns them to the three agencies: Department of Lands, Department of Architecture and Ecology. That is how a preparatory stage finishes and the first stage of getting a land plot begins.
Acts can be different
After the submission to the Department of Lands an Act on site selection is made by its officers and a committee is formed to conduct investigations on the territory and to counsel on the expedience of placing of a filling station (LHG filling station) on this site. The Act on selection and investigation of a land plot is a document with a plot plan (a copy from the foundation project at scales 1:500 or 1:2000; sometimes both schemes are required) and a word description of the territory and the boundaries of the area selected.
On the last page of this document the composition of the committee is stated which as a rule includes: a representative of the local Fire Department; an Environmental specialist; a Head doctor of the local Sanitary-Epidemiological Service; the Road Service; a representative of the State Road Safety Inspectorate GIBDD (Traffic Police) and a Head of the local Department of Architecture. The Deputy Head of the Regional Administration is usually appointed as a Head of the Committee. All the representatives of the organizations which are members of the Committee are to give a favorable praise and to affix their signatures and to seal on the Act on selection and on the copy of the plan.
The Department of Lands officers also issue a certificate on the type of a land on this site (tillage, reserve lands and so on) and conclude on placing of a filling station on this site. With the Act on selection and investigation of a land plot certified by the Committee and its Head it’s necessary to apply for the local Departments of Ecology and Architecture which draw their conclusions on the basis of the documents from the Department of Lands. Both conclusions are of preliminary character, they usually state that there are no obvious reasons for refusal of placing of a filling station on this site. Then all the documents are to be passed over to the local Administration or to the council which on the basis of all the documents collected will conclude if there is a need of collecting documentation for getting the land plot. At this the first stage of getting the land plot which is about a month finishes and if the conclusion of the Administration was positive then comes the second stage.
Assaulting fortified localities
At the second stage there is an accumulation of the technical regulations and conclusions from all the organizations concerned with this land plot and the construction of new facilities. The local Administration issues a license for the further accumulation of the documents on the site for construction of a filling station (LHG filling station). When having this license one should continue applying for the agencies. The second phase is realized in the district area (regional or town area) and is aimed to receiving a preliminary approval; besides a great number of documents got at this period will be of much use when obtaining a construction certificate. In the first place it’s necessary to address a request to the district fire engineering service which will issue its technical regulations for placing of a filling station (LHG filling station) within a week. Then with the license from the district, the technical regulations from the fire men, the Act on selection and investigation, the letter from the landowner and the documents from the regional (city) Administration one can apply for several agencies at once to save time. The technical regulations are to be received from the electricians, from the authorities of the heat distribution network and the water supply system, from the department on installation of telephone and broadcasting system, road and gas facilities. It will take approximately a month (more or less a week) to get all the above-mentioned technical regulations. For this time the officials will be yarning much having the main question in their minds: How can your organization help to this department?
When receiving the technical regulations the conditions issued by the agencies are to be read with much attention. As there are the cases when under the conditions stated there was a possibility of constructing of a filling station on this site only in case of the object being removed from the road for not less than 50-100m. And in such a way a filling station will be placed somewhere in a forest or in a field. It is also not infrequent when the officials just “amuse” issuing the documents which state that this organization has no objection for constructing a filling station if there is an accordance with the current legislation. Such regulations should not be accepted. The document of this kind is to clearly identify that the organization (for example, gas facilities or department on installation of telephone and broadcasting system) doesn’t have networks, cables, line tubes on the territory of the site stated situated ….. (name of a place) and that is why it doesn’t object to placing a filling station. If there are some networks on the site selected the technical regulations should make a provision for the conditions of their transition and state the name of the organizations to be in full conformity with. Only this kind of a document can be taken from an official but even this “perfect” paper can’t guarantee that you won’t find any tubes and cables in some unknown place. There used to be some cases when while constructing a filling station an excavator took out open wires from the ground which resulted in lack of telephone communications in the nearby settlements or the residential quarters. Though lack of telephone communications is not so very serious, an excavator bucket can be just in several centimeters from a gas pipe destined and in case of its damage there could be human losses.
At the second stage of applying for the agencies the most longstanding and expensive procedure will be getting a certificate from the Sanitary-Epidemiological Service. This healthcare organization will obtain test measures of filthiness of the soil and the air on the land plot selected. Such an investigation will be very helpful when you know the decision of the regional (city) council of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Service and when there is an “analysis of the influence of the hazardous object on the environment”.
The copies of all the above-mentioned documents are to be sent to the local Department of Ecology which on the basis of the documentation collected will draw a conclusion which in its turn is to be sent to the architecture along with all the documents.
In addition to the collection of the technical regulations in the Department of Geology and Geodesy it’s required to order a fragment of a topographic map of the land plot selected with putting geodesic coordinates on it. This procedure will take not less than 2 weeks and will involve the specialist on-site visit (you should be prepared for providing the surveyors with your proper transport otherwise the process of mapping topography would extend over a month ). During this time it’s ultimately desirable to make a rough design (pre-drafting offer) of a future filling station which will have to be confirmed at the town-planning council further. After the town-planning council these documents are delivered to the Department of Architecture. Hereafter all the documentation collected is sent to the regional (city) council, which – in case of deficiency of the negative recommendations – will permit to complete the collection of the documentation for the site construction of a filling station (LHG filling station). This is how the second stage finishes and the third – final – stage of registration of right in land – begins.
….it’s the most difficult one…
The last stage in differ from the previous one will take place solely and exclusively on the territory of the region (city) and starts with the regional Fire Defense Department(or Fire Safety Department – depending on the country). This department will draw its conclusion under favorable circumstances within a week on receiving the assistance for the development of its department as well. Then you can apply for a number of agencies: the Sanitary-Epidemiological Service, the Department of Archeology, the Department of Protection of Historical Landmarks and of course the Traffic Inspection. When visiting the Sanitary-Epidemiological Service you will be required to have the “analysis of the influence of the object on the environment” made. The process of it being made will accelerate and get cheaper at the expense of the investigations conducted by the district council. But yet you will have to take out not less than 2 weeks from your calendar to make this analysis. The issues with the archeologists and protectors of Historical Landmarks will take 3-4 days (if you provide them with your proper transport) – during this period there will be an investigation of the site selected and the nearby constructions. In case of their absence a number of pits will be dug on the site for the investigation of the archeological layers. There is no need to speak about the methods of the Automobile Inspection work : each car owner knows them; dealing with the technical department will not be the exception.
The ecologists – with having all the above-mentioned documents along with the analysis of influence and the preliminary investigation on the object filthiness – will likely approve of placing a filling station on this site, and you will have to visit but a regional (city) Department of Architecture. The Chief architect most probably will draw a negative conclusion without a personal meeting - due to the absence of the site selected in the area layout of the filling station but after a few minutes of a private encounter he would change his point of view and would put your site in the area layout.
And here we are again on the way to the regional (city) council which provided that there is a documentation properly made will issue a license on obtaining the land which will be passed over to the Chief regional land manager. On the ground of the certificate issued by the Chief Land Department officer the design office will make a document on acquisition of land for Your company which will enable you to buy or take on lease the site for construction of a filling station.
The duration of a procedure of obtaining the site for construction of a filling station or a LHG filling station – lies heavy on the conscience of slow officials and a very contradictory normative base which has to be made fit to each single situation. Instead having all the above-mentioned documents will be a substantial guarantee of emerging no problems at all related to the site after everything you have been through. Of course the list of the organizations you have to apply for looks quite impressive, yet there are always various additions and amendments in the law which are to ease your task. It’s quite possible that relatively soon not only ecological and technical regulations will be in full conformity with the European standards, but also a legislative framework will be organized and simplified (an example: passing a new Federal law dated July 11, 2008 №123-FL “Technical regulations on the fire safety requirements”) and for now – we have to put up with the current things.
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