Key Services:
Access Audits, Acoustics, Brief Writing, CAD Services, Computer Graphics, Contract Administration, Contract Advice, Development Plans, FFE (Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment), Full Architectural Service, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Materials Advice, Planning Advice, Planning Applications, Rural Planning & Design, Space Planning, Value Engineering | | | Description:
Cassidy & Ashton have been commissioned by the College to advise, design and manage the construction of various projects since 1997. Working closely with the Governors and staff, we initially proposed a master plan for the re-development of the college for work to be carried out over a ten year period.
The master plan has since acted as a guide for not only the implementation of various developments to the Grade 1 Listed Building Complex and Grounds, but also informed the ongoing Business Plan for the expansion of the College.
The master plan included the Construction of a New Build Residential Block which would add to the magnificent Grade I Listed façade at Stonyhurst.
The Planning and Listed Building Consents took considerable time to obtain and involved considerable consultation with the Local Authority and English Heritage. The impact of new build on the existing Buildings, and its effect on the historic Landscape all required detailed consultation and understanding. A sensitive design and appropriate detailing all contributed to the success in obtaining the necessary Consents.
This 4 Storey Building is L-shaped on plan, steel framed, and clad in traditionally designed stonework. Stone Surrounds are provided to openings, and double height quoins are introduced on corners. The traditionally slated pitched roof has lead clad dormers.
The building sits comfortably with the existing buildings, and responds correctly as a modern intervention within an established historic setting.
The building works commenced in January 2009, and are due fore completion in March 2010.
Other notable works at Stonyhurst include:
The refurbishment of the existing Residential Areas to update pastoral care within the Boarding Standards.
The refurbishment of the More Library.
The repair and redecoration of the Sodality Chapel.
The provision of an All Weather Pitch for Hockey within the historic Landscape.
The refurbishment and remodelling of Shirk. |
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Key Services:
Access Audits, Acoustics, Architects' Service & Fee Advice, Brief Writing, CAD Services, Computer Graphics, Contract Administration, Contract Advice, Development Plans, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Materials Advice, Planning Advice, Planning Applications, Space Audits, Space Planning, Value Engineering | | | Description:
Bolton School have commissioned Cassidy + Ashton to master plan a phased development over 5 years to upgrade and expand their school to meet current demands The overall strategy has since been adopted by the school and the projects consist of new junior & infants schools, and 6th Form Centre.
The new Infants School comprises a 3 form entry of approx 200 pupils ranging from the ages of 4 to 7 and is located on land owned by the school continuing a long standing educational use on the school grounds.
Significant consultation with Bolton Council’s own Conservation Officer has enabled a more modern design to evolve, but still paying reference to the main school complex through the use of matching materials and design features. The finished scheme provides a state of the art education facility within a historical setting.
In addition to the more recent Development Plan appointment, the practice has been Architects to the school for many years receiving various commissions across the school site. These include a new swimming pool and sports hall, the conversion of the old swimming pool into an Arts Centre with a two storey atrium style entrance, re-organisation of arts & science laboratories, refurbishment of home economics and drama studios, and the addition of an external porch using glass, steel and stone.
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| 4: Project Name | Vocational Centre |
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| Dates: | 2007 - 2009 | | Location: | BLACKBURN | | Gross Area: | 2,000 to 4,999 sqm | Sectors:
Education - Secondary Education | | |
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Key Services:
Access Audits, Acoustics, Brief Writing, CAD Services, Computer Graphics, Contract Administration, Contract Advice, Design for Special Needs, Fire Consultancy, Full Architectural Service, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Materials Advice, Planning Advice, Planning Applications, Space Audits, Space Planning | | | Description:
Our Lady & St John is an 11–16 Voluntary Aided Co-Educational Comprehensive School situated in the Shadsworth Ward of Blackburn with Darwen. The proposal for a new Vocational centre stems from a presumption granted by the DfES in December 2006, following the schools recognition as a high performing specialist school with Vocational Education status as a second specialism. The DfES presumption states that high performing vocational specialist 11–16 schools should offer post-16 opportunities as alternative provision.
The proposal is for a new build 300 place 16 -19 Vocational Centre on land adjoining the existing school site at Our Lady & St Johns RC Arts College. This new development will provide modern teaching accommodation to lift the aspirations of the staff, pupils and visitors and is funded through the Learning Skills Council.
Several different vocational courses will be taught at the new centre including Catering, Engineering, Hair & Beauty, Media Studies, and IT & Business Studies. These courses will have a flexible curriculum within the new building with links to existing industry within Blackburn and the surrounding area.
The design of the building very much evolved from the context of the proposed site. Following receipt of the site survey the contours were drawn on the reveal the topography of the site. Due to the substantial fall across the site it was decided to minimise the cut & fill and thereby reduce the amount of earth being removed from the site from a sustainability point of view. The contours revealed a sweeping flow across the site from end to end. This reinforced the initial massing for a curved building following the flow of the contours.
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| 5: Project Name | Investment Centre |
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| Dates: | 2002 - 2004 | | Location: | Skelmersdale | | Gross Area: | 5,000 to 9,999 sqm | Sectors:
Offices - Business Parks | | |
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Key Services:
Access Audits, Acoustics, Brief Writing, CAD Services, Computer Graphics, Contract Administration, Contract Advice, FFE (Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment), Full Architectural Service, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Materials Advice, Model Making, Partnering, Planning Advice, Planning Applications, Space Planning | | | Description:
In December 2002, the practice was appointed by West Lancashire District Council, through the North West Development Agency, to prepare plans for a two storey new build Investment Centre at White Moss Business Park, Skelmersdale.
A feasibility study was undertaken for the design and proposals put forward to the NWDA for funding approval. Cassidy + Ashton were appointed directly by West Lancashire District Council as Lead Consultant on a partnering based contract.
The building comprises a series of Incubator Units varying in size from 500 to 3000 sq. ft. The units are set around a central open courtyard with a feature entrance leading from on site car parking. The project was completed in 2004 with a contract sum of £4,500,000.
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| 6: Project Name | Cuerden Church School |
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| Dates: | 2004 - 2006 | | Location: | PRESTON | | Gross Area: | 2,000 to 4,999 sqm | Sectors:
Education - Primary Education | | |
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Key Services:
Access Audits, Acoustics, CAD Services, Computer Graphics, Contract Administration, Contract Advice, Development Plans, FFE (Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment), Full Architectural Service, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Materials Advice, Planning Advice, Planning Applications, Value Engineering | | | Description:
This new build school project was to amalgamate Bamber Bridge Methodist Church Priory School with St Saviors Church of England School.
The project for a new 1 Form Entry, comprises classrooms from Reception through to Year 6, with School Hall, Library, Specialist Subject Faculties and administration suite, together with a multi-use Community Hall with all associated facilities.
Cassidy + Ashton achieved high praise off the DfES for the scheme, who commented that, “In architectural terms, the massing, proportions and materials choice all contribute towards a school design which is both stimulating and visually very competently handled”.
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| 7: Project Name | Faculty of Dentistry |
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| Dates: | 2006 - 2007 | | Location: | PRESTON | | Gross Area: | 1,000 to 1,999 sqm | Sectors:
Education - Higher Education | | |
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Key Services:
Access Audits, Acoustics, CAD Services, Computer Graphics, Contract Administration, Contract Advice, Design & Build, Design for Special Needs, FFE (Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment), Full Architectural Service, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Materials Advice, Planning Advice, Planning Applications, Space Planning | | | Description:
Cassidy + Ashton were appointed by the University Of Central Lancashire to design the new Faculty of Dentistry Building in 2006.
Following a successful Full Planning Application we were Novated to work as a consultant to the main contractor for the Construction phase of the project.
In September 2007 the completion of the new graduate entry dental programme for the award of BDS (Bachelor of Dental Surgery), was delivered at UCLAN. The new 3 storey state of the art School of Dentistry comprises Secure Reception area,Administrative Facilities, Lecture Theatre, Student Facilities, Seminar Rooms and Dentistry Laboratories. |
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| 8: Project Name | Denbigh Hospital, North Wales |
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| Dates: | 2005 - 2007 | | Location: | Denbigh | | Gross Area: | 10,000 to 49,999 sqm | Sectors:
Conservation - General, Development, Houses and Housing - General, Mixed Use Projects, Offices - General | | |
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Key Services:
Architects' Service & Fee Advice, Building Maintenance, CAD Services, Conservation & Restoration, Development Plans, Feasibility Studies, Listed Building Advice, Master Planning, Multi-disciplinary Consultancy, Rural Planning & Design, Sustainable Design, Town Planning, Urban Planning & Design | | | Description:
Cassidy + Ashton were appointed to produce a Master plan and an Outline Planning Application for the derelict Grade II* Denbigh Hospital and associated grounds, (circa 40 acres), in 2005. The project involved detailed consultations with CADW, the Georgian Society, Victorian Group, Historic Parks and Gardens and The Prince of Wales’s Phoenix Trust. Outline Planning Permission was granted in 2007.
The scheme proposed is for the repair of the listed hospital, other associated listed properties and the surrounding landscape. It puts forward the creation of a new urban village comprising mixed use Development; including 17 Acres of Enabling Residential Development on Greenfield land.
The development will be broken up into varied building forms, less regimented in layout and scale, and with a split level to take advantage of the natural topography of the site. The proposed master plan incorporated a mix of housing varying in scale, identity and density, which is responsive and sensitive to the existing historical building and nearby town of Denbigh.
Creation of openness will allow the countryside to penetrate the site, footpaths, cycle ways and roads connecting the landscape to the heart of the village, focusing on utilising existing architectural and landscape features leading people along green corridors.
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| 9: Project Name | Buckshaw Village School |
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| Dates: | 2008 - 2010 | | Location: | CHORLEY | | Gross Area: | 1,000 to 1,999 sqm | Sectors:
Education - Primary Education | | |
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Key Services:
Access Audits, Acoustics, CAD Services, Computer Graphics, Contract Administration, Contract Advice, Design for Special Needs, FFE (Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment), Full Architectural Service, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Planning Advice, Planning Applications | | | Description:
In June 2008, the DCSF Schools Adjudicator invited proposals to establish a new mainstream school at Buckshaw Village, under Section 7(1) of the Education and Inspectors Act 2006. The school is to be situated on a reserved site on the corner of Buckshaw Avenue and Village Way, Buckshaw Village, Chorley, Preston, Lancashire.
The aim was to provide a distinctive building that relates well to the surroundings, whilst also providing a clarity and enclosure to the various age groups found in a Primary School.
A competition was held with both Blackburn Diocese + Chorley Methodist Circuit, and LCC submitting bids for the new development with Cassidy + Ashton acting for the Diocese.
Blackburn Diocese and Chorley Methodist Circuit were then selected to establish a new Primary School at Buckshaw Village. The school is to offer accommodation for a one form entry school for 210 pupils; from Reception Class to Year 6.
The overall scale of the school reflects the constraints of the site and the need for an efficient site layout including sufficient hard and soft play areas. Furthermore, the scale of the building allows it to appear as a feature within a predominately two storey area, without being dwarfed by surrounding development.
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| 10: Project Name | Building Schools for the Future - Lancashire |
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| Dates: | 2005 - 2006 | | Location: | BURNLEY | | Gross Area: | 10,000 to 49,999 sqm | Sectors:
Education - General, Education - Higher Education, Education - Nursery Education, Education - Primary Education, Education - Secondary Education, Education - Special Needs, Education - Training Centres | | |
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Key Services:
Access Audits, Acoustics, Art & Architecture, CAD Services, Competition Entries, Computer Graphics, Development Plans, Drawing Service, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Master Planning, Materials Advice, Multi-disciplinary Consultancy, PFI Advice, Space Audits, Space Planning | | | Description:
In 2005 Cassidy + Ashton were part of a Shortlisted Bidder Team working with Taylor Woodrow on the submission of a large development for BSF in Lancashire.
The Barden site, known as the Burnley Campus was to comprise of a 6th Form School and a Primary School interlinked, sharing facilities as far as possible and designed as a single entity in scale with their occupants and usage.
The Burnley School’s 6th Form section included a Sports Hall, Public Library, and Faith Centre in addition to educational and administration space, all accessed off a central Atrium. The Primary School was to be made up of mainstream Primary Key Stages 1 and 2, a Primary Special Educational Needs School (GDL), a Nursery and Full Day Care facilities, together with a Hydrotherapy Pool grouped around a central courtyard.
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