In Brief Client: Private Developer Location: Rookery, Kidsgrove, Newcastle-under-Lyme Construction Value: £120,000 Completion Date: Planning consent approved March 2015. Proposed completion Summer 2015. Croft Architecture Ltd provided pre-auction advice to our client for a grassed over site in Kidsgrove, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Pre-auction, the site already had planning permission for two one ...

In brief Client: Stoke-on-Trent City Council Location: Burslem, Stoke on Trent Construction Value: £110,229 Completion Date: May 2015 Form of Contract: JCT Minor Works Building Contract with contractor’s design 2011 (MWD 2011) We were appointed by the Burslem Building Improvement Scheme (Townscape Heritage Initiative phase 3 – THI3) for the restoration and refurbishment of 2-4 Swan Square, ...

In Brief Client: Keele University Location: Keele University Project Value: £250K Completion Date: Planning consent approved March 2015. Proposed completion September 2015. This major extension and refurbishment to Keele University’s Student Services Centre within the Tawney Building, will provide crucial additional public space, creating a new expansive environment that delivers a one stop shop ...

Our client required a re-organisation of the internal layout of this grade II listed building to improved access and flow of customers within the pub. The building was listed as a good example of three vernacular cottages. Our proposals included investigations to discover and re-instate a former doorway to the central cottage making this the principal and accessible entrance to the pub. ...

The school’s existing dining facilities were not large enough to accommodate all students and the narrow serving area limited the flow of pupils being served during the lunch period. We proposed converting a courtyard and a cloakroom area into a new dining room and multipurpose space with a new secondary entrance for extended hours and extracurricular activities. This created a greater demand for ...

In a society that is living longer with an increasing demand for care facilities, the Care Village at Weymouth is designed to provide the independent living with the reassurance of a safe secure environment where access to a flexible tailored care and support network is available as required. Our proposals for the site at Newton’s Cove would provide an innovative and sustainable community ...

Submitted at competition the brief was to design a replacement for the landmark Edwardian tearooms in the Belper’s River Gardens. The existing building had fallen into disrepair and had been condemned. Industrialist George Herbert Strutt commissioned the original Swiss-style tea rooms. It was felt the new design should reflect elements of this building, while providing a new sustainable and ...

This project was a feasibility study into the development of the entrance space to form an atrium and a bridge link for the main hospital building to the Treatment Centre at high level which would offer a discrete patient journey to the main ward areas. Within the atrium a reception with a meet and greet lounge, patient transport, toilets and baby change facilities, volunteer’s area, shops and ...

In Brief Client: Private Developer Location: Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent Project Value: £175,000 Completion Date: March 2015 Our client acquired the former car parking site in the centre of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent in August 2013 to develop new town centre housing. The brief was to maximise the potential of the town centre site to develop much needed quality modern rental accommodation within the ...