Explore Living is leading the Brighton Marina Regeneration Project, in partnership with X-Leisure, the landowners, and Parkridge Developments.
Some of the projects completed by the Laing O'Rourke Group include:
- Heathrow Airport, Terminal Five;
- the Scottish Parliament;
- Selfridges, Birmingham;
- the Bullring, Birmingham;
- Ascot grandstand;
- Portcullis House.
Explore Living
Explore Living is the residential development arm of Laing O'Rourke, bringing enhanced value and greater customer choice to Britain’s residential marketplace. Explore Living has purpose-built a unique and specialist team, which aims to offer the ‘total solution’ in terms of social, economic and environmental development. The team will address the areas of the marina which are in most need of regeneration, mainly in the western area, which includes the Asda site adjacent to the ramp access, the roundabout to the base of the ramp, the petrol filling station, the McDonalds site and many areas in between, such as cycle and pedestrian ways, which need improvement. These are outside of the Brunswick Development and Black Rock planning application areas currently being considered.
Laing O'Rourke
Laing O’Rourke plc is the largest privately owned construction firm in the UK. We have offices in the UK, Germany, India, Australia and United Arab Emirates, with over 30,000 employees worldwide. Led by Chairman and Chief Executive, Ray O’Rourke, the business has grown rapidly since the merger of Laing and R.O'Rourke & Son Ltd in 2001. Laing O'Rourke has a truly integrated capability, with a directly-employed internal supply chain allowing us to take a holistic view of construction. Laing O’Rourke specialise in delivering ambitious yet achievable construction projects that delight both clients and the communities who use them. The company is responsible for some of the most innovative construction solutions anywhere in the world. Our in house manufacturing capabilities have recently taken a significant step forward through the development of our Steetley off site manufacturing facility in the East Midlands. For further details please visit www.steetleyfuture.co.uk
R@DD
The vision of Laing O’Rourke is to challenge and change the Housing and Construction industries to achieve a dramatic improvement in performance. Laing O’Rourke believe that such change can best be effected by being radical at design and delivery (R@DD). This demands the building of constructive relationships between all participants in a way never previously achieved. With the introduction of the Radical Innovation Group, Laing O’Rourke are able to collaborate with all of their stakeholders and the community as a whole in the areas of: business development, people, process, safety, sustainability and innovation.
Parkridge
Parkridge is a private company and encompasses several corporate activities focused on individual sectors of the property development and investment market. From offices in London, Solihull, Warsaw and Luxembourg, Parkridge's activities include Shopping Centres, Logistics Parks, Housing, Office and Leisure developments. Parkridge Developments is a subsidiary of the Parkridge Holdings Group of companies. The company began trading in 1998 and in the first six years has completed £250 million of developments.
X-Leisure
X-Leisure is the UK’s fastest growing premier leisure brand, with a wide reaching portfolio of exciting and innovative entertainment and leisure destinations strategically located around the UK. The X-Leisure team is commited to prove that retail, leisure and attractions can combine together successfully to bring something innovative and highly appealing to the public. The portfolio boasts 5.25 million sq ft of prime space which is home to the top brand names in the industry and offers a full spectrum of leisure and entertainment experiences, appealing to the whole family.
Allies & Morrison
Bob Allies and Graham Morrison established Allies and Morrison in 1984 following their success in the competition for the redesign of the public space at the Mound, Edinburgh. The practice now employs over 200 people. Masterplanning is a major part of Allies and Morrison’s work. The practice is currently working on over twenty masterplans at different stages of development in some of the most deprived and heavily polluted, post-industrial areas of London as well as smaller towns across England. Allies and Morrison have played a key role in the preparation of the masterplan proposals for the London Olympics Bid and the regeneration of the Lea Valley. Its many RIBA Award-winning design projects include the Clove Building in Butler’s Wharf; the new British Embassy in Dublin, the Roalind Franklin Building for Newnham College Cambridge and the Horniman Museum.
Halcrow Yolles
The Halcrow Group has established itself globally as one of the premier consulting engineering practices. With 5000 staff and 60 offices worldwide it can provide a full range of engineering services. Halcrow Yolles has developed a solid reputation in the residential, hospitality, transportation, commercial, retail, institutional, sports, parking, entertainment and healthcare building sectors. Notable project experience includes developments such as the residential development for EMAAR at Dubai Marina, Niagra Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagra Falls, Canary Wharf in London, the World Financial Centre in New York and the Four Seasons Hotel at the Nile Plaza in Cairo.
Battle McCarthy
Battle McCarthy is a world-leading consultancy who support Architects and Urban Designers to prepare comprehensive sustainable Development Frameworks that cover economic, social and environmental issues. Battle McCarthy bring international experience and knowledge of sustainable infrastructure and building design, environmental analysis, sustainability auditing and sustainable business development to the project. Its approach will also incorporate landscape services which focus on using ecological design, sustainable materials, hydrology and sustainable urban drainage and recycled materials. Battle McCarthy’s portfolio of experience includes Greenwich Millennium Village, Deptford Creek and the Gibraltar Marina.
Outerspace
Outerspace provides contemporary and dynamic urban and landscape design solutions, taking an “holistic-creative-humanistic” approach to enable each scheme to belong, in terms of time, place and people. They start from the opposite ends of the place making process; from a ‘strategic scale’ looking at a site according to the bigger picture, its position and role in the city as a whole; whilst concurrently from a ‘humanistic scale’: addressing the physical and psychological requirements of the people that use places and spaces. Their ‘Design through Dialogue’ tool has been developed to genuinely engage local communities in the place making process. Awards include: Walthamstow Town Square and Gardens (with BDP), RTPI AWARD WINNER 2004: ‘Mayors award for Planning Excellence, Foxton Locks Masterplan and Implementation Strategy (with Arup) and Waterways Renaissance Awards 2006: highly commended.
Colin Buchanan
Colin Buchanan employs 170 traffic specialists covering transport planning, traffic engineering, planning and regeneration, urban design and traffic modelling. Commissioned by the UK Minister of Transport they produced the seminal “traffic in towns” report which is widely regarded as the starting point of modern transportation planning. It recognised both the benefits of the “go-anywhere self powered machine for transport and personal locomotion”, as well as the threat posed by the car to urban and rural environments. Colin Buchanan has been at the forefront of developments in public transport aimed at providing an alternative to the car. The firm has also been active in exploring how development control, parking and charging policies can help to achieve sustainable forms of land use and transport development.
Holmes - Antill
For almost twenty years, the Practice has been involved in the development of major schemes around the country. The Practice aims to combine environmental enhancement with commercial reality through a combination of sustainable land use and movement, high quality layout and design, and a serious, committed approach to public involvement in the development of schemes. Notable projects include: The redevelopment of the Peugeot Stoke works in Coventry for 10ha of employment; the development of Grange Park at Northampton for mixed use housing and employment the redevelopment of the Alcad site in Redditch; the development of Blythe Valley Business Park in Solihull and the development of Dickens Heath (New Village) Centre in Solihull Borough.
Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners Ltd
Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners (NLP) is an independent town planning consultancy founded in 1962 to provide specialist advice on all aspects of the planning process. Over more than four decades the Practice has built up extensive planning and development experience. Today they are one of the UK’s largest independent firms with offices in London, Newcastle, Manchester and Cardiff. NLP have been involved in achieving permission for many high profile projects including the London Eye, the new Wembley Stadium, Chessington World of Adventures and Lakeside Shopping Centre.
Affordable Housing Advisor
Founded in 1992 by the merger of the well established firms King & Co and JP Sturge, King Sturge are now one of the UK’s leading property consultancies. The Partnership has 19 offices across the UK, employing over 1500 members of staff, together with a comprehensive network of wholly owned and associated offices across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas. The Partnership’s multi-disciplinary team of highly qualified residential, mixed development and commercial professionals, have a considerable range of experience gained from a variety of public and private sector backgrounds. The recently recruited Affordable Housing Team enables King Sturge to provide a truly “one stop” service for residential and mixed use clients.
Priory PR & Events
Priory PR & Events is a leading Brighton-based PR agency, founded 30 years ago and playing an important part in the local community. Priory specialises in consumer public relations and public affairs, winning gold this year for public affairs and lobbying at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Awards. The organisation has a strong community programme, contributing to Brighton & Hove local affairs and the business community through a range of local committees and organisation of several major local events, including the Sussex Business Awards and the Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival. Priory PR & Events worked with Parkridge Developments on the Brighton Marina Supplementary Planning Guidance, passed by the planning committee in 2003.
Eidos Arts
EIDOS ARTS is a young company providing consultancy for integration of Public Art in public spaces. Its approach is specific: EIDOS ARTS believes that art and culture can make a difference in people’s lives, but to be effective a public art programme needs a strategy which is strongly related to “place”, to social and economic history. EIDOS ARTS strength is to deliver artistic strategies which are based on a precise analysis of the context and to suggest original artistic programmes. EIDOS ARTS believes that team work is essential in any successful project and is keen to collaborate with architects, landscape architects, artists and communities to ensure that the integration of Public Art is seen as a positive, collective endeavour and not a forced gesture. EIDOS ARTS explores local art scenes as well as keeping in touch with international projects in order to offer a varied range of artists and art commissions. The company has applied its methodology in the UK and in France in several hospital developments as well as mixed developments with both private and public partners.
