Here is a great piece about Clapham in this month’s Local Government News explaining how our collaborations with the public sector can deliver real results. Read it here.
Fancy a dip?
Monday, January 16th, 2012
Our leisure centre in Clapham is now officially open to the public and has been really busy during the first opening weeks. We are very proud of this development and so happy to see it being put to good use by the local community. Here are some more great pictures taken by Gareth Gardner. Read more
Something borrowed, something blue…and yellow
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Here are of a couple of the beautiful finished letters by Andrew Logan which will soon spell out the word LIBRARY in front of our brand new building in Clapham. They look fantastic! We can’t wait to see them in their new home and watch the people of Clapham trying to find their contributions to the public art project – their everyday items that Andrew asked them to donate to the project and that are now very much a part the artworks. Read more
O.Two in the Building
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
There are secrets in The Library Building. As part of our campaign to launch the last remaining apartments in Clapham we invited the talented artist O.Two/Fade To Gloss into the building site and let him loose on the bare concrete walls. What happened next is quite something. The art will soon be covered over as the rest of the building works continue, hidden behind the walls of someone’s new apartment. Read more
Big plans for Bromley
Friday, December 16th, 2011
We submitted our planning application for Bromley South Central today. We’re moving another step closer to delivering what we think is a really fantastic scheme. These new CGIs were made to accompany our submission. We’re aiming for a Committee date at the end of March. Fingers crossed…
Period features? Ho Ho H-old fashioned!
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, windows were leaking and roof slates were loose.
As part of the campaign to launch The Library Building in Clapham, we sent Christmas cakes this morning to all the local estate agents in the area to tease them gently about their obsession with period features. It’s all over for the Victorian conversion…
It’s all over for the Victorian Conversion
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Today we launched our campaign for the release of the final phase of The Library Building on Clapham High Street in February 2012. We’ve been busy over the last few months collaborating with the most amazing creative minds to exploit the current concrete landscape of our development. Click here to check out the new website to find out more. You won’t be disappointed.
Hidden Art
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Here is a taster of what we’ve been up to inside our landmark development on Clapham High Street. All will be revealed shortly…
The Old Vinyl Factory
With our joint venture partners, Development Securities plc, we have recently acquired the 17-acre London Gate business park in Hayes, Middlesex. We will shortly announce plans for a radical £250m redevelopment of the site that pays homage to its important history. Many of the empty and semi-derelict buildings were designed to be the home EMI’s global manufacturing business by the famous British Art Deco architects Wallis, Gilbert and Partners who were responsible for the Hoover Building in Perivale, the Firestone Factory in Brentford and Victoria Coach Station.
Bromley South Central
We are partners with the London Borough of Bromley in a proposed £80m mixed-use PPP scheme to transform part of Bromley Town Centre. Our proposed Bromley South Central scheme is designed to kick start regeneration of the South end of Bromley High Street. At the heart of a proposed 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 150-bedroom business hotel, 173 private and affordable apartments and a new 400 space underground car park.
Clapham One
With our joint venture partners United House, we are building a landmark £80m mixed-use regeneration scheme which will transform leisure services across two sites in Clapham town centre, south west London. The Public Private Partnership scheme, will provide 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.
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.
The Movement, Greenwich
In April 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 soon-to-be-Royal borough at the main point of entry for visitors to the World Heritage Centre.
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 £60m mixed-use PPP regeneration scheme in partnership with the London Borough of Lewisham. 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.
Grow Brighton
In March 2006 we were selected by Brighton and Hove City Council and The University of Brighton as the preferred developer for the redevelopment of the old Circus Street municipal fruit and vegetable market in Brighton. The £100m mixed-use, PPP regeneration scheme is currently in design. The scheme will be built around a new public piazza and a brand new library for the University on a site just off Grand Parade and right next to the University campus.
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.
Sundridge Park
In January 2005 we acquired Sundridge Park hotel and conference centre from Hanover International in a deal worth £15m. The impressive estate in Bromley boasted an historic 16-acre landscape which was originally designed by Humphry Repton in the 1790s, a 1970's purpose built conference centre, a Grade II listed Coach House, built in 1836, and a Grade I listed Mansion House at the heart of the estate, surrounded by 175 acres of championship standard golf courses.
