Capita Symonds’ operations across the
East of England have grown consistently over the last decade thanks
to its acquisition of innovative local businesses, the development
of groundbreaking partnerships with local authorities, and its work
on some of the region’s most lauded projects.
The company has worked in partnership with
Cambridgeshire County Council since 2007 providing design,
technical and multidisciplinary property services to deliver the
council’s schools programme. Capita Symonds is also part of the
USAFE (United States Air Force in Europe) housing framework as well
as being designers under the Croughton Cluster FSC2 Term contract
on a number of projects for Defence Estates.
In 2009 Capita Symonds acquired
Chelmsford-based town planning and urban design consultants Andrew
Martin Associates (AMA) to spearhead the promotion of public,
private and voluntary sector development proposals across the East
of England.
In the same year we signed a deal with
Breckland Council in Norfolk to provide planning and building
control services to the authority. The 15 year contract is valued
at around £40m and is expected to generate £4m in savings to
Breckland Council over the course of the partnership.
Capita Symonds’ other work in the area
includes:
- Beaulieu Park, Chelmsford:
We are lead consultants providing planning advice for this major
sustainable urban extension (pictured) in north east
Chelmsford.
- Purfleet: The proposals for
the regeneration of the heart of Purfleet in the Thames Gateway
comprise a £750m regeneration scheme on a 59 hectare brownfield
site which will be financed and undertaken by a public-private
partnership.
- Howe Dell School: This
primary school - Hertfordshire’s first ‘eco-school’ - is the first
building in the world to feature a revolutionary new heating system
that uses the school playground to heat and cool its
buildings.
- Bell Common Tunnel: Designed
by Capita Symonds, the award-winning £93m M25 Bell
Common Tunnel refurbishment project opened two months early,
under budget, and with an excellent safety record.
- Gunhild Way Primary School:
The first BREEAM excellent rated new primary school in the region
provides a sustainable, contemporary, two storey building for 480
pupils and 60 staff. When it opens in September 2011 the £7.3m
project for Cambridgeshire County Council will have gone from brief
to occupation in 18 months.
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