Canary South

In June 2001, we were selected from a Europe-wide Public Private Partnership competition as the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority’s (LFEPA’s) preferred partner to develop a new fire and emergency planning centre for London’s Canary Wharf. On a prime piece of land already owned by LFEPA, we were able to develop the first privately funded fire station in the UK at zero cost to the public purse through a mix of private residential, social housing and commercial development around the site.

We obtained detailed planning consent, with work commencing on site in September 2003, to build a new state-of-the-art Fire Station together with 178 apartments and a restaurant unit. The Fire Station, which was handed over to the Fire Brigade in August 2005, includes new modern offices equipped with furniture made from recycled materials, part of which is available for community groups to use.

The station, which replaced the old Millwall Fire Station just around the corner, has an extended appliance bay to accommodate the larger vehicles now used by the brigade. Consultation with the fire-fighters led to features such as individual showers and improved personal space, designed to provide them with greater privacy.

The entire station is energy efficient and has been commended by CABE, the Greater London Authority and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets as an exemplary design. The remainder of the development was completed in June 2006.  

The 178 private residential and affordable housing units were designed to the highest standard. We asked Bella Freud to design our show apartment as we wanted something a bit different to offer potential buyers than a neutrally decorated show flat. Bella did a fantastic job and we secured coverage in the national media for her retro inspired interiors.

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“Cathedral is a thoughtful and imaginative property development company who have just completed a pioneering Public Private Partnership for the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. Their focus and energy means that we have a state-of-the-art fire station that we are truly proud of.”

Nadim Moge, Head of Property, LFEPA, March 2006.

 

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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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Canning Town

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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