About us

We are Cathedral.

We are about to enter one of the most exciting phases of our development.  Over the last 13 years we have built a reputation in the property industry as one of the most exciting, innovative and forward thinking developers working in the UK.  We see huge opportunity ahead of us.  Our time is now. 

Public Private Partnership

The PPP development model that we created early in Cathedral’s life, building 6000 student bedrooms in partnership with higher educational establishments across London and the South East, that we nurtured through our partnership with the London Fire Brigade at Canary South, has now matured and could not be more relevant to today’s economic reality.

Canary South

How we can pay for public buildings in this time of economic crisis and public spending austerity programmes is a problem facing local authorities and other public service bodies right across the country.  Our Public Private Partnership development model, perfectly illustrated by our scheme in Clapham – a partnership with Lambeth Council that’s providing them with a new library and leisure centre at no cost to the public purse – could not be more relevant.  It provides a way forward for local authorities when all other doors are shut.  It means a whole new way of thinking about partnership between private and public sectors, requires creativity and commitment to public service ideals and at its heart it’s about great community placemaking.  We have the experience, the resources and the team to grasp this opportunity, build on the very successful £425m pipeline we are already developing and make a real contribution to how people live, work and play.

Clapham One

Special Projects

Our Special Projects portfolio of private speculative development is thriving.  Through strategic partnership we have been able to build a £1.1bn pipeline of projects and create significant uplift in land value by employing great design, understanding what makes great places and delivering them by innovative and thoughtful use of the planning system.

The Old Vinyl Factory

Hotels

We hold a number of hotels in our portfolio including the Grade II listed Jacobean-style mansion Eynsham Hall in Oxfordshire and Grade I listed Sundridge Park Manor in Bromley which was designed by British Architect John Nash in 1797. Jeremy Wall, our Head of Hotels manages the hotel portfolio which we are currently expanding to include more properties throughout London the south east.

Sundridge Park Manor

Cathedral Healthcare

Over the past 13 years we have delivered extensively in primary healthcare, providing high quality health facilities and medical centres throughout the UK. Several our of schemes have been awarded Europe-wide accolades for design and delivery. Each of our healthcare projects is tailored to the needs of our client and we are very proud of the partnerships we have built with with individual GP practices and PCTs.

St Stephen’s Gate

We have a great team in place in our 18th Century listed church, next to The Shard in London Bridge, and it is growing.   We have gathered around us the best professional consultants we could wish for and we are working with some of the best architects in the world and making places we are very proud of.

St Thomas’s Church

Here are some of our projects…

 

The Deptford Project, London

 

Bromley South Central, London

The Old Vinyl Factory, Hayes, West London

Morden Wharf, Greenwich Peninsular

The Movement, Greenwich and The Movement Cafe

Circus Street, Brighton

 

 

 

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Morden Wharf

In March 2012, along with our partners Development Securities PLC, we acquired Morden Wharf, a 19 acre regeneration site on Greenwich Peninsula. The major riverside regeneration site, formerly a sweeteners refinery, is adjacent to the O2 Arena with 500 metres of Thames river frontage and will play a crucial part in the delivery of the Royal Borough of Greenwich's masterplan proposals for the western side of the Greenwich Peninsula, published in April 2012.

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Caxton Works

On a site just off Silvertown Way, at the gateway to London's Royal Docks, sits a 2-acre site previously occupied by two thriving businesses - Goswell Bakeries and Moss Electrical. Between them these businesses employed over 100 people as part of a once thriving community. Now these buildings are occupied by a completely different group of people who are there to kickstart a revolution.

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Circus Street, Brighton

 

We will be delivering an 'Innovation Quarter' in the heart Brighton, one of the UK's foremost creative cities, through a Public Private Partnership with Brighton and Hove City Council and the University of Brighton. We are proposing a new world-class mixed-use destination for creative and technical innovation, just a stone's throw from the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Pier.

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The Old Vinyl Factory

With our joint venture partners, Development Securities plc, we acquired the 17-acre London Gate business park in Hayes, Middlesex in April 2011.  We've been working up a masterplan for a radical £250m redevelopment of the site that pays homage to its important history with an amazing creative team including Duggan Morris Associates, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Studio Egret West. In November 2012 the London Borough of Hillingdon resolved to grant planning consent for the comprehensive transformation and we'll be concluding formalities over the next few months. We'll then be starting our mission to bring 4,000 jobs and a whole new life to an area of Hayes that badly needs it.

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The Movement, Greenwich

In April 2011 we were granted planning consent for The Movement, a vibrant, highly sustainable and truly mixed-use scheme located on the former Greenwich Industrial Estate, currently derelict, which is adjacent to Greenwich DLR and Mainline Station.  With our partners Development Securities Plc we will deliver a new threshold for the Royal borough at the main point of entry for visitors to the World Heritage Centre.

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Bromley South Central

We are partners with the London Borough of Bromley in a £90m mixed-use PPP scheme to transform part of Bromley Town Centre.  Our Bromley South Central scheme is designed to kick start the regeneration of the South end of Bromley High Street.  At the heart of a new residential and leisure quarter will sit a landscaped public square surrounded by a nine screen multiplex cinema, 25,000 sq ft of cafés and restaurants, a 130-bedroom business hotel, 200 private and affordable apartments and a new 400 space secure underground car park. On Tuesday 6th March, the London Borough of Bromley passed a resolution to grant planning consent for the scheme.

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Clapham One

With our joint venture partners United House, we have built a landmark £80m mixed-use regeneration scheme which has transformed leisure services across two sites in Clapham town centre, south west London.  The Public Private Partnership scheme, provides Clapham with a new, highly sustainable leisure centre, a new, state-of-the-art library, a new family medical centre and some of the most high quality residential accommodation in the borough including affordable housing in partnership with Notting Hill Housing Group.  The PPP deal meant that in the teeth of the recession, we were able to secure £35m funding for this hugely important project (including loan funding from the Homes and Communities Agency’s kickstart programme), pre-sell £46m of the development and guarantee the London Borough of Lambeth a brand new library and leisure centre funded entirely from the sale of the private sector element of the development.

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Spirit of Sittingbourne

 

Earlier this year, as part of the Spirit of Sittingbourne consortium, we were selected by Swale Borough Council as their development partner to regenerate Sittingbourne town centre over the next five years.  We’re going to build a new station square to transform arrival in the town.  A new cultural quarter, civic quarter with a new library, brand new public realm throughout the town centre and residential schemes will generate £250m of economic improvement over the next ten years and will create 1100 jobs.

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The Deptford Project

In summer 2008 we installed a 1960s commuter train carriage into a site next to Deptford High Street train station in south east London.  We put it there to kickstart a £42m mixed-use PPP regeneration scheme in with the London Borough of Lewisham in partnership with United House.  Following Network Rail's redevelopment of the station, we will begin a programme to transform that part of Deptford town centre with a new residential building by Richard Rogers, restoration of an historic Victorian carriage ramp and a new public square. On the 8th March 2012 the London Borough of Lewisham resolved to grant planning consent for our scheme.

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Eynsham Hall

We acquired Eynsham Hall from Hanover International in April 2005, a conference and training centre developed around a beautiful Grade II listed Jacobean-style mansion in North Leigh, Oxfordshire.

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