Largest ever new build scheme in the North York Moors National Park reaches completion
30th January 2009
Final completion was announced today on a £3million day care centre and supported housing scheme in Esk Valley, on the North York Moors.
The Esk Moors scheme will provide 12 self-contained flats and a substantial day care centre with extensive recreational, health & welfare and catering services for older people from the surrounding rural area; a remote location previously lacking in social housing or community facilities.
The scheme, developed by Abbeyfield UK, took many years of fundraising and campaigning for support, but took just 10 months to build on site. Designed by Burns Architects, the build was project managed by Robinson Low Francis, which also provided quantity surveying services. The first residents are expected to move in during January 2009.
Mark Newberry, partner at Robinson Low Francis, said: “The care homes sector is key for us, and this project in particular has been great to be involved with as it had challenges such a long pre-planning history and a large number of key stakeholders. The brief was to provide superb residential accommodation to those people who would otherwise have had to move far from the area they have lived in for a number of years. The challenge was to handle the project, which is built on a remote and demanding site in a national park, in a sensitive way.”
Tim Chaudhry, of Abbeyfield UK, commented: “We worked with Robinson Low Francis to ensure that the project was completed in a timely fashion. We are really pleased with the resultant housing, which will be a huge benefit for the local community.”
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Robinson Low Francis (RLF) is a UK firm of construction and property consultants, with over 100 years of experience in the industry. The company provides services to public and private sector clients and is currently involved in projects with a total value well in excess of £1billion.
RLF has 170 staff spread across seven offices in the UK (Birmingham, Brighton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester and Stevenage) and one in Malta and was recently voted one of the UK’s top professional services firms in the “MPF100 Best Professional Firms to Work For” survey and ranked in the top 75 firms featured in the Building Good Employer Guide 2008.
Key areas of work are quantity surveying, project management, engineering services, building surveying, management consulting, health and safety services and more recently specialist sustainability advice to meet the major environmental changes in the industry.
RLF works across the commercial, education, government & defence, healthcare, industrial, office, residential, retail and sport & leisure sectors, to provide clients with innovative solutions to their construction and property needs. Clients include Royal Mail, John Lewis, Grosvenor, Pfizer and Barclays. For more information visit www.rlf.co.uk