archadia news summer 2011
Two new directors appointed
We are delighted to announce that Am Sondh and Colin Stewart have recently accepted Directorships with Archadia. Both were formerly Associates and this promotion recognises their professional commitment and their drive to help develop the Practice into the future.
Joining Patrick Manwell and Jean Hanna on the board, they add strength to the team enabling us to deliver the best of design and service to our clients.
Completion of two further phases at Kisimul School, Long Ditton, Surrey
Vernon Court, a residential block, has been granted Ofsted registration, following refurbishment and linking to another building, while the Garden Suite has been rebuilt to provide new teaching accommodation.
Archadia has been working on the masterplanning of this site for four years converting a complex of Edwardian buildings in the Green Belt into a boarding school for children with severe learning difficulties, behavioural problems and autism. Refurbishment, remodelling and extensions have been carried out under several consecutive traditional contracts and Archadia has undertaken all stages of the work from initial design to completion on site.
Other project news
Jobs on site include a new nineteen unit retirement housing scheme consisting of a mix of flats and bungalows in Crowborough, Sussex and a fifty unit extra care housing scheme at Penge in the London Borough of Bromley. We shall soon be making planning applications for several projects including a sixteen unit multi-generational housing scheme in Byfleet, Surrey, a project in Poole consisting of forty-four retirement flats (‘housing with care’) linked to a new forty-eight unit residential care home, and a forty-three unit extra care scheme in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.