We are very pleased to announce the successful opening of the first Holiday Inn Express in Cornwall, at the Cornwall Services located at the Victoria Interchange junction on the A30 near Bodmin. Construction was challenging given the sites elevated and exposed position, however the hotel has opened to a very positive reception and is already trading extremely well. The scheme reinforces this major well established service area, which the practice completed a few years ago. Further phases of work are now planned for employment development on the adjoining sites.
Stratford-on-Avon Council have granted approval for the redevelopment of the Debenhams department store in the centre of the town.
The first phase will be an 80
bed hotel over a ground floor of retail & leisure units, with a further
phase of 12 apartments over retail units to follow shortly. The scheme features
sensitively designed facades to the High Street and Wood Street, and a new high
quality approach along Taskers Way into our highly successful Bell Court scheme
that anchors the Town Centre.
Planning was complex given the
sensitivities of designing in a historic centre, being in a conservation area
with part of the site occupied by listed buildings.
At Mountford Pigott we have been utilising our in-house 3D printing facilities to help with the shortage of PPE and have to date printed 140 visors with shields and supplied a local dentist, care home, primary school and GP surgery.
We are delighted to announce
that Greenwich Council have approved our proposals for a 300 bed Travelodge on
the former O’Keefe site on Greenwich Peninsula.
The landmark building which
rises up to 18 storeys was consented unanimously by Councillors, receiving
praise from many quarters for its distinctive design and striking appearance.
We look forward to delivery of the scheme in the very near future.
One morning in June 2018, staff at Mountford Pigott received a shocking email from the wife of retired senior partner Alan Gaskell. Alan started at Mountford Pigott in the 1960s, was a driving force behind the practice’s success since the 1980s and had only recently retired when the news reached us that he had been involved in a very serious road traffic accident… he had been on his bicycle at the time.
Alan’s memory of the accident and the following hours was partially restored by seeing the footage captured by the “24 Hours in A & E” film crew once he reached St George’s Hospital but the immediate aftermath of the crash has been pieced together from accounts by witnesses and first responders which is how he found out what happened in those first few minutes.
Although the accident took place in an area which is usually served by the Kent Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance it was on call at the time so Alan was attended by London’s Air Ambulance and its expert advanced trauma clinicians. Alan sustained various bone and other injuries which took months to heal with the help of a team of specialist medics supported by the full range of diagnostic and imaging equipment that can be found in a modern hospital, however, in those first minutes after the collision it was London’s Air Ambulance team that made all the difference to Alan’s recovery.
Alan’s accident has given staff at Mountford Pigott new insights and understanding of London’s Air Ambulance Charity’s special work. Most of us think of ambulances (air or road) as vehicles which transport sick or injured patients to hospitals full of doctors and specialist equipment but the air ambulance can get senior doctors and paramedics to a patient in minutes where the LAAC team perform pioneering procedures greatly reducing the time between sustaining an injury and treatment. It came as a great surprise to many of us that this service is not funded as part of the NHS but is in fact reliant on charitable contributions.
We are enormously grateful to London’s Air Ambulance Charity for the role it played in Alan’s care and recovery following his accident along with all the other people whose lives have been saved or improved by the air ambulance’s rapid response. Consequently we are very proud to be supporting this charity in 2020 so that they can continue to provide this service for Londoners.
Mountford Pigott is delighted to have received full planning consent for a new development in Oakcroft Road, Chessington. The proposed storage unit replaces an existing unit and will provide 2177m² of storage space and 214m² of associated office space and is in keeping with the industrial aesthetic of the area. The proposal includes an […]
Planning approval has been granted for the redevelopment of the Jaguar Land Rover site at 270 Old Shoreham Road, Hove.
This mixed-use scheme comprises a 3,153m² Big Yellow Self Storage unit as well as 688m² of flexi-offices over 3 storeys which provide active frontage along Old Shoreham Road. The surrounding urban context is fine […]
Mountford Pigott is delighted to announce that the McDonalds drive-thru and Nando’s – which form part of our new restaurant development at the Colonnades Retail Park, Croydon – are open for business.
The 2-storey building, which replaces the old Gipsy Moth pub, comprises 3 units. Following a successful launch, the retail park’s management […]
Mountford Pigott is pleased to announce that the Big Yellow Self Storage facility in Manchester is open for business.
This six-storey building has been designed with simple elements and clean straight lines drawing from the area’s considerable industrial heritage. The form of the building is created through the interplay of two rectilinear boxes. The […]
Mountford Pigott is delighted to have provided planning and construction drawing services for this recently completed residential scheme in Warlingham for Whitgift Estates Ltd. With truly spectacular views across the Woldingham Valley, the generously proportioned new-build apartments and duplex units have been fitted out to an exceptionally high standard in a contemporary style providing […]
