Building Size:
841 sq. mtrs
Start date:
November 2005
Completion date:
August 2006
Project Status:
Completed
Essex, Colchester, Mill Road Surgery
New 6-Doctor surgery replaces inadequate existing building
Project Situation; New surgery leased to 6 Doctor practice. The Practice had already sold their existing building in exchange for an option on land owned by the NHS the other side of the main road.
Project brief; To replace outgrown and inadequate existing building, housing 4 Doctors with growing list size
Project Solution; Ashley House were selected as preferred development partners and negotiated with ‘Inventures’, the predecessor to English Partnerships, to secure only a section of the preferred site sufficient to build the new surgery. The land was split into 3 sections, the front end being sold to a day nursery and the rear retained for NHS or residential use. The Doctors had originally agreed an option on the whole site with the Secretary of State, therefore our first trial was to ensure the middle section was sufficient in size and
affordable to the Practice
Points of interest; The site was the subject of various land ownerships (3x different Trusts) and Tree Preservation orders dictated the depth of some foundation work. There was the removal of a Gas Governor to contend with as well as a revised road entrance and footpath to allow future access to the rear of the site. Furthermore, boundary negotiations with the day nursery operator had to be entered into due to the fact that he had opened his new building before we went on site, erecting a fence on a part of our land.
