Healthcare Design & Management features St Wilfrid's Hospice

rhp designed St Wilfrid's Hospice is featured on the front cover of the latest issue of Healthcare Design & Management.

The Hospice has received a great deal of recognition for its innovative and 'brave' design and was most recently Highly Commended at the BBH Awards in the Patients Choice category.

Cambridge Business magazine celebrates 40 years of rhp

The December issue of Cambridge Business magazine carries a feature on rhp as we enter our 40th year. The magazine is out now or can be viewed online.

Lakeside Country Park plans unanimously approved

Our plans for Lakeside Country Park were approved unanimously by committee yesterday. Work is scheduled to commence in late spring 2015.

The popular countryside site attracts approximately 10,000 visitors per annum and offers local groups facilities for a wide range of activities, including canoeing, open water swimming, fishing, model boating and dog training.

RHP’s proposals allow for two new buildings to replace the current outdated facilities. They are to have photo-voltaic panels, green roofs and will achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ status. In addition, the buildings will house a multi-purpose space suitable for functions and group activities, offices for staff and partner organisations, improved changing facilities, additional storage space, public toilets and improved disabled facilities. The increased space and improved facilities will provide the Council with additional revenue streams, in addition to creating vastly improved public facilities for the local community to continue to use and enjoy.

Chair of Eastleigh Local Area Committee, Cllr Paul Bicknell said ‘This is a really exciting project to modernise the facilities at Lakeside for the community and to help attract more visitors to this wonderful waterside site.’

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11595581.New___2_5_million_water_sports_centre_given_go_ahead_for_Hampshire_lake/?ref=mr

Building Better Healthcare Awards

RHP and St Wilfrid's Hospice were Highly Commended in the Patients Choice category at the Building Better Healthcare Awards held today. Thank you to HPCi Media for an enjoyable afternoon.

Davigdor Road gets the green light

We are delighted to announce our plans on behalf of The Hyde Group for 113-119 Davigdor Road have been approved unanimously at a planning committee meeting held this afternoon.

Restoration of St Mary's Church, Newport

RHP's Helen Axworthy is pictured in the Walden Local in front of St Mary's Church, Newport.

The Church was on the English Heritage 'At Risk' register and as such has been the subject of  a series of essential renovations to conserve the Grade 1 listed building. It is hoped that following the restoration work it will be removed from that list.

RHP awarded place on The Hyde Group’s Architectural Services Framework

We are delighted to have been awarded a place on The Hyde Group’s Architectural Services Framework.

Hyde is one of the largest housing associations working in England, owning or managing around 50,000 homes in London, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, the East of England and East Midlands.

The Hyde Group first appointed RHP to their framework in 2011.

We are currently working with The Hyde Group on the redevelopment of 113-119 Davigdor Road in Hove and look forward to continuing to deliver new and exciting projects throughout the duration of the framework.

RHP Brighton is now recruiting Qualified Architects

Our Brighton studio is recruiting qualified architects with relevant experience of running medium to large sized projects (£5m to £10m or above), across RIBA Stages C to L. Due to a number of exciting new projects you will be required to assist with our expanding workload. Specific experience of student residential, affordable housing and workplace environments would be an advantage.

These are full-time, permanent positions based in our Brighton studio (5 mins walk from Brighton Station and the beach).

Please send a hard copy of your CV and examples of your portfolio to:

Gwynneth Burrows

RH Partnership

30-31 Foundry Street

Brighton

BN1 4AT

RHP is proud to be an equal opportunities employer 

Lakeside Country Park, Eastleigh

RHP have been appointed by Eastleigh Borough Council as lead consultants for a major new water sports centre planned for Lakeside Country Park. The popular countryside site attracts approximately 10,000 visitors per annum and offers local groups facilities for a wide range of activities, including canoeing, open water swimming, fishing, model boating and dog training.

RHP’s proposals allow for two new buildings to replace the current outdated facilities. They are to have photo-voltaic panels, green roofs and will achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ status. In addition, the buildings will house a multi-purpose space suitable for functions and group activities, offices for staff and partner organisations, improved changing facilities, additional storage space, public toilets and improved disabled facilities. The increased space and improved facilities will provide the Council with additional revenue streams, in addition to creating vastly improved public facilities for the local community to continue to use and enjoy.

Chair of Eastleigh Local Area Committee, Cllr Paul Bicknell said ‘This is a really exciting project to modernise the facilities at Lakeside for the community and to help attract more visitors to this wonderful waterside site.’

Hyde Group proposals help meet job needs

Coverage in The Argus of planning proposals submitted by RHP on behalf of client the Hyde Group detail how the £15m development will provide jobs as well as new homes.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/business/11446349.The_rise_of_the_Phoenix/?ref=twtrec

Phoenix Brighton reborn with Arts Council funding

Phoenix Brighton, the largest independent artists studio and gallery in the south east has recently been awarded £150k from the Arts Council. The much needed funding will enable the centre to continue a programme of essential renovation works which commenced in April 2014 under the guidance of RHP.

Coverage in today's edition of The Argus details the work carried out so far and planned forthcoming improvements to the gallery space and entrance, scheduled to take place in early 2015.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/business/11446349.The_rise_of_the_Phoenix/?ref=twtrec

For more information about Phoenix Brighton visit: http://www.phoenixbrighton.org/

Combined Colleges Boathouse gets the go ahead

Rounding off a hat-trick week of planning approval, RHP are delighted to have received the go ahead on behalf of the Leys School and Selwyn, Churchill and King’s Colleges for a new boathouse to be built off Logan’s Way in Cambridge. The site and existing boathouse are located in an area with a high propensity for flooding and the current facilities are outdated and insufficient to meet the storage facility and training demands required.

Plans drawn up by RHP will provide the four clubs with a high quality, state-of-the art new boathouse with the majority of the accommodation on the first floor and out of flood level.

Planning approval granted for Hills Road Sixth Form College

RHP are proud to have worked with the award winning Hills Road Sixth Form College (HRSFC) on a number of projects over the years. Continuing this successful association, we are pleased to have received planning approval from Cambridge City Council, on behalf of HRSFC, for a new £3.6 million scheme to considerably extend and enhance their current classroom and performing arts facilities.

HRSFC was recognized as the State Sixth Form College of the Year in 2013 and regularly receives OFSTED Grade 1 'Outstanding' in all areas accolades. This new development will provide facilities as part of HRSFC's ongoing forward planning for future growth and flexibility and thus continuing to enable the College to deliver excellence.

£5 million Buxton’s redevelopment receives planning green light

RHP’s plans for the redevelopment of the former Buxton’s site on Ditchling Road received approval from Brighton and Hove City Council last night.

The motion was carried by 10 votes to 2 and will give the site (which has been derelict for over 8 years) a dramatic new facelift with a new four storey building for Kings Colleges, a language college offering GCSE, A Level and pre-university preparation to foreign students. The plans allow for a mixed use scheme accommodating a new combined college facility and student halls of residence and help to further animate the street scene along Ditchling Road.

RHP’s designs have taken care to preserve and conserve the prevailing characteristics of the local area, adding a further boost to the regeneration of the London Road and Lewes Road corridors, whilst creating an exciting new site for Kings Colleges’ newest UK outpost.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11391443.Former_department_store_set_for___5_million_international_college_revamp/

Planning submitted for Gresham Road Graduate Accomodation, Cambridge

Planning has been submitted to Cambridge City Council on behalf of Hughes Hall for the development of the old University Physical Education Centre on Gresham Road.

The proposals include 85 graduate rooms with student study rooms and ancillary spaces. To facilitate the development there is to be a new footpath link connecting back to Hughes Hall on the opposite side of Fenner’s; a new changing room extension for the adjacent Indoor Cricket School and a new gated entrance to the footpath.

Planning submitted for 113-119 Davigdor Road

Planning has been submitted to Brighton and Hove City Council on behalf of the Hyde Group for development of 113-119 Davigdor Road in Hove.

The proposed nine storey, mixed use building will house office space on the ground floor; 76 apartments on the upper floors (many commanding sensational views of the city and nearby seafront); as well as underground parking for 35 cars. RHP have consulted with landscape architect Nick Dexter on the design of the feature community space to the south of the site.

Planning approval in Clifton Conservation Area, Brighton

RHP have been granted planning permission on behalf of their client, Streamline Taxis, for the refurbishment of their offices at 5 Clifton Hill, Brighton.

Streamline have been based out of the premises for over 60 years and are the city’s longest serving taxi company.

Work has already commenced and involves reinstating original architectural features including roof lights, which had been removed, and rationalizing the floor space and accommodation to provide an open, contemporary working environment fit for the present and future operations of the company.

Sussex Heritage Trust Awards 2014

We are delighted to announce RHP have won a Sussex Heritage Trust Award for St Wilfrid's Hospice, Eastbourne.

Arnold Simanowitz, Chariman of St Wilfrid's Hospice and RHP's Nic Hoar

RHP were appointed as architects in 2009 and work was completed in August 2013. The hospice has recevied considerable praise and recognition for its groundbreaking look and feel, a key aspect to a new approach in end of life care.

Earlham Hall, Norfolk

RHP's recent restoration of Earlham Hall in Norwich for the University of East Anglia’s school of law is to be featured in an article and on the front cover of the latest issue of the CIAT's quarterly publication, AT - Architectural Technology.

Earlham Hall is a Grade ll* listed building standing in parkland to the west of Norwich.

Deemed to be of national and social significance as an historical building, it was in need of refurbishment to make it functional, structurally sound and to bring it in line with 21^st century standards.

Work commenced in June 2012 and the refurbishment work was completed in March 2013. The school of law moved into the building in March 2014.

Feedback has been very positive and the building has been restored in a sympathetic manner that maintains the building's historic integrity, whilst ensuring it will be around, and in use for many years to come.

McGrath Centre shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2014

We are delighted to announce that The McGrath Centre at St Catharine's College has been shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit Awards in the Higher Education over £5m category. The complete shortlist of entries from each category can be found here.