Brooklands Gardens, Market Harborough, Leicestershire

Client: Seven Locks Housing

Brooklands Gardens, Seven Locks Housing’s flagship Independent Living scheme opened following an 87-week redevelopment.

The existing 50 bedroom site was dramatically remodelled into 67 new, stylish one and two bedroom wheelchair accessible flats. The scheme now also includes three communal lounges, a room for hobbies, a hairdressers and a laundry room, plus a shared garden and courtyard.

The works were completed in two phases, allowing residents from the half of the site being renovated to move into the other half temporarily.

 

Services & skills

  • Review planning application to ensure compliance with client brief
  • Lead and manage the consultant team
  • Agree specification, tender and appoint contractor
  • Attend all site meetings and visit site regularly to ensure quality control
  • Manage decant of residents and phased handover
  • Manage programme and budget
  • Co-ordinate Interior Designer
  • Chair monthly Resident Group meetings
  • Produce monthly progress reports for executive team
  • Snag all properties prior to handover

Project stats

Project status:
Complete

Number of units: 
67

Tenure:  
Rent

Testimonial

Rachel successfully delivered two significant projects for Seven Locks Housing. The first project was an eco home rehab project designed to develop sustainable improvements for older properties and pilot products that would be both green and customer friendly. The second project was a £6m regeneration and build project to transform a 1980s sheltered scheme into a state-of-the-art extra care scheme.

To both projects Rachel brought excellent development, planning and project management skills. She used her knowledge of building, repairs and maintenance, her project planning and management skills and her tenacity to advise in the development stage and to ensure delivery to quality, time and cost requirements. She was forensic in ensuring contractors' products were fit for purpose and fitting and finish was to a high standard.

Rachel’s people skills were key to the success of her work with us too. She networked and chased effectively on both the client and contractor side to ensure project dependencies were understood and actions delivered in a timely way. As project sponsor I was able to leave projects in her capable hands, confident she would keep me updated and consult me as and when required.

– Deborah Bennett, Executive Director, Seven Locks Housing

 

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