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Bracknell Town Centre Regeneration Project - Development Team Profiles - part 1

17/09/04

Bracknell Regeneration Partnership, working closely with Bracknell Forest Borough Council, has assembled a first class team to deliver the 750m Bracknell Town Centre regeneration project, including some of the world’s leading architects and consultants. Using their combined expertise, gained working on prestigious development schemes around the world, the team is currently working up detailed refinements to the town centre masterplan.

The masterplan was published by the Borough Council in September 2002 as a framework for the redevelopment of the town centre and has been adopted as planning guidance. In April last year the Borough Council signed an exclusive development agreement with the town centre landowners Legal & General and Schroders, who have formed the Bracknell Regeneration Partnership to carry out the development.

In the coming weeks, Bracknell News will be profiling the development team members, highlighting their past achievements and giving readers an insight into the experts who are shaping your town’s future.

This week: Stanhope, the project’s lead development managers

The Bracknell Regeneration Partnership has appointed Stanhope plc as the lead development manager with overall responsibility for managing the professional team, masterplanning, phasing, procurement and delivery of the town centre regeneration project.

Since Stanhope was formed in 1983, the Stanhope team has developed, either independently or in partnership with others, more than 50 developments providing more than 13 million sq ft of commercial space in central London and the M25 area. Among them are some of the most respected developments in Europe, most notably the Broadgate development in the City of London and Stockley Park adjacent to Heathrow Airport.

Stanhope is at the forefront of research-led development that responds not only to the commercial requirements of the occupiers but also the needs of the people that live, work and shop there. Stanhope has commissioned more than 450 research studies and won over 70 awards for development, design and construction excellence.

Stanhope’s current development activities use its team’s expertise to secure and implement major mixed-use and commercial development projects in London and the South East of England. Stanhope’s current projects include the following:

Chiswick Park, the 1.5m sq ft cutting edge business park in West London, renowned for its Enjoy Work policy. (visit www.enjoy-work.com )
Stratford City, the 13.5m sq ft redevelopment of London Continental Railways land at Stratford
The modernisation of Government offices for HM Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue
Croydon Gateway, regeneration of a nine acre site next to East Croydon station
One Hanover Street, W8, the redevelopment of one of the Crown Estate’s key sites.

Stanhope’s approach to development is user-orientated, providing environments that ensure the most efficient, desirable and therefore most valuable asset to the landowner, occupier and investor.

Under Bracknell project director Rob Watts, Stanhope is extending its user-focused approach to providing a mixed use environment in Bracknell, designed with the needs of residents, shoppers, visitors and the local workforce in mind.