Berkhamsted School North Court
Projects

Berkhamsted School Sixth Form

Client
Berkhamsted School
Size
30,000 sq ft
Value
£12m

This new sixth form building represents the completion of the first phase of Berkhamsted School’s comprehensive masterplan project and involves the demolition of three existing buildings to make way for a new state-of-the-art facility that includes flexible teaching spaces, a café, offices and communal social spaces for students.

Founded in 1541, Berkhamsted School is located within a conservation area and we worked tirelessly to collaborate with local stakeholders to ensure the complex planning requirements were successfully met. The site is located on a medieval burial ground and the scheme required considerate and appropriate design in order to preserve these historic interests. This meant relocating objects of historical importance in order to successfully complete the works.

The client has an overarching desire to be as sustainable as possible, which was encompassed into the design. We installed air source heat pumps for the heating and cooling system, a blue and green roof to capture and disperse rainwater as well as a biodiverse meadow and landscaping scheme that surrounds the new building.

Berkhamsted School jpg
Front view
Berkhamsted School Entrance
Entrance
Berkhamsted School Mill Street
Mill Street

Our team delivered the design and construction of this world-class facilities for students and we successfully managed the planning permission for the new building and landscaping while negotiating the challenges that this ancient site of historical importance presented.

Get in touch with our team

602205

Jonathan Bainbridge

Partner, Planning

Jonathan leads our London planning team, focussing on technology clusters, large-scale residential, council headquarters and higher education – it’s an eclectic CV.

Read more

Related services:

01

Built Environment

Simplify your building project – let us handle the complexity

02

Project Management

Seamless project delivery in the UK’s most innovative cities

Search Bidwells