Park East, Erith, Wins RTPI Award

Our Employer’s Agent team’s Park East, a significant new development in Bexleyheath, has won the RTPI Award for “Excellence in Planning for Communities”. A great result for client Orbit and the rest of the team. It recognised the positive impact the regeneration has had to the community and the wider area and the strong engagement with a difficult to reach community. Hunters acted as Joint Venture Supervisors helping to create over 300 new homes in the London Borough of Bexley.

Supporting our Community

This Christmas we have again supported the Lyric theatre in Hammersmith where an expected 35,000 people will see Jack and the Beanstalk, their lively Panto, and the captivating Raymond Briggs’ ‘Father Christmas’. As part of this, the theatre has raised funds to distribute free tickets to local organisations and family community groups, engaging with the local community and providing a platform for them to more easily access the arts.

Estate Revamp in Maidstone Receives Planning

Hunters Architects and Golding Homes have received planning consent for 236 new homes at Cambridge Crescent in Shepway, Maidstone, Kent.  The vision re-creates the traditional crescent with an extensive mix of home sizes which are 100% affordable.  The estate regeneration project revamps the popular local retail centre providing modern and attractive shops and other commercial spaces set within new landscaped places for the community.

Five years; 23 schemes, 27 sites, 341 homes, £80 million build and 100% affordable homes.

Barnet, along with other suburban boroughs, took the strategy to deliver their affordable home programme through small sites. Hunters, originally acting as Project Managers, undertook the Employer’s Agent and Cost Consultancy activities for this significant project.  Sites included garages and infill of existing housing stock. The project has created a significant range of flats and houses reflecting the character of where they are based.

The project is a good example of how local authorities can make use of existing underutilised land in their ownership to deliver much needed affordable homes which respond to local need.

Hunters Cath Lab Upgrades at St George’s

The healthcare team have completed five new cardiac catheter labs in St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London, one of the country’s leading coronary centres.

The overall scheme replaces the five existing cardiac catheter labs across two phases and, through intelligent spatial planning, it provides state of the art interventional cardiology spaces with significantly improved storage and staff areas. The completion of this second phase delivers a further three new labs – two bi-planes and one hybrid.

Hitting the Top 100

This years prestigious Building Magazine league table placed Hunters at No81 in the Top 150 Consultants AND No36 in the Top 50 Architects.

Charity Event to Support the Young

The Irish Youth Foundation (UK) raise money to support disadvantaged, young people of Irish heritage around the UK. Joint Managing Director @NeilMcCabe was delighted to attend a networking evening to raise awareness of their efforts, identify other ways of raising funds and establish future strategies to help support those in need.

Brunel Street Works Nearing Completion

Acting as Lead Architects delivering a highly complicated, £250m development adjacent to Canning Town Station, Brunel Street Works provides a vibrant new urban quarter on a highly complex site. The overall project will deliver 975 mixed tenure homes, 30% of which are family homes and a block of private rent, over 8,000m2 of commercial space including a 152 bed hotel, foodstore and retail / business units. New public spaces connect the buildings and people in the area. READ MORE

Charity football raises £5,500

Hunters keen (and not so keen) football team took part in L&Q Living’s annual charity event to raise money for Minds Matter FC, their football team for people living with Mental Health conditions.
Initially it was announced Hunters had won the group stages of the tournament, so the team enjoyed their moment of success until it was established they weren’t the winners (a bit of incorrect scoring). A thoroughly enjoyable tournament where we came 5th out of 8, with some aching team members the next day. Congratulations to all participants including the semi-finalists; and the winners.The funds raised enable Minds Matter FC to purchase new kits, pay for travel to matches, pitch fees and equipment. 

Supporting Richmond Heavies Foundation

We are delighted to be supporting RHF to help raise finance for defibrillators to be put in place across community sporting venues across the country.  The foundation has already delivered 55 defibrillators, as well as 500 cardiac screenings and 2500 accesses to mental wellbeing.
‘With over 1,000 community rugby clubs in England, our goal is that no club should be without a working defibrillator due to lack of funds. Our Defibrillator Fund has been set up to provide defibrillators to community rugby clubs who cannot afford this life-saving device.’ RHF