2006


PRP wins What House? 2006 Award

22.11.2006

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PRP's Denham Garden Village development has won the award for ‘Best Retirement Development’ at the What House? Awards held in London last week.

The annual event is sponsored and organised by the Daily Telegraph.


PRP wins Low Energy Building of the Year Award

21.11.2006

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St Matthew's scoops Low Energy Building of the Year award at the UK Sustainability Awards 2006


Shortlist: Regeneration Consultant

20.10.2006

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PRP has been short-listed as Regeneration Consultant of the Year 2006 in the Building Regeneration Awards programme.


PRP's masterplan for Fryerns & Craylands

12.10.2006

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Thames Gateway regeneration gathers speed as outline planning application is submitted for Craylands and Fryerns. The £200 million project will provide over 1,650 homes


Grove Village wins Best Regeneration award

16.10.2006

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The Grove Village housing PFI scheme, designed by PRP for Manchester City Council, has won 'Best Regeneration Scheme' in the Manchester Evening News Property Awards.


PRP wins £100M project in Russia

14.09.2006

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PRP has won its first closed international competition to design a new and exclusive residential development in the prestigious western district of Moscow.


SEEKING ALL ARCHITECTS AND PROJECT LEADERS

16.08.2006

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PRP is undertaking a recruitment drive to support a growing portfolio of work that has been won in the UK and internationally. The practice is looking for talented architects and project leaders to work on a number of housing, regeneration, mixed use and commercial projects.


PRP wins appeal for controversial Oaklands site

14.08.2006

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An innovative scheme of new homes, designed by PRP, on the Oaklands College site in the centre of St Albans, has won planning approval at appeal for Fairview New Homes. The controversial proposals, involving the conversion of five listed post war Hertfordshire education buildings to residential use, has been supported by CABE, DOCOMOMO and The 20th Century Society.


PRP wins Chester regeneration project

14.08.2006

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Our masterplan and design scheme for Lovell has been selected for the £16.5 million regeneration of Treborth Road in Chester.


PRP founders win Historic Award

21.07.2006

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The founding members of PRP, Peter Phippen, Peter Randall and David Parkes formed PRP (known originally as Phippen Randall Parkes)in 1963. They have been awarded the prestigious Historic Award for The Ryde in Hatfield at this year’s Housing Design Awards 2006.


Families in the City launch

06.06.2006

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We unveil the results of our competition to design high density housing for families in cities which has revealed new concepts and ideas which PRP hopes to market externally. The results of the competition, Families in the City, show new approaches by architects which reflect modern day lifestyles, including factors such as ethnicity, home working and the changing needs of families over a long period of time.


Civic Trust & CABE space advisor joins PRP

01.06.2006

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We have appointed Civic Trust consultant and CABE space advisor, Alexandra Rook, to spearhead our urban design standards and community consultation. Alexandra, who previously worked as principal consultant for The Civic Trust, will take on the role of Landscape and Urban Design Consultant. This newly created role requires Alexandra to report directly to Director Andy von Bradsky and work with PRP Directors to spearhead urban design standards across the practice’s five offices.


St Matthews commended by Evening Standard Awards

12.05.2006

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PRP’s Sustainable Keyworker Development Scheme in St Matthew’s commended in Evening Standard Awards. The St Matthew's Keyworker Development project comprising 12 flats in Brixton, London, has been commended in the 'BEST NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE AFFORDABLE HOMES SECTOR' in the Evening Standard Homes and & Property New Homes Awards 2006. This is the first built project to come out of PRP Zedfactor, a joint venture collaboration between PRP and Bill Dunster Architects.


Green light for Navigation Point, Castleford

27.04.2006

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PRP, in partnership with Merlion Capital Housing and Amenbury Property Ltd, has received a resolution to grant planning consent for the regeneration and redevelopment of the former Lambson’s chemical works in Castleford, Yorkshire. The scheme, which will be known as Navigation Point and borders the rivers Aire and Calder, is valued at £120 million and will take an estimated 10 years to complete.


Regeneration of Brooks Road

28.03.2006

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Rona Nicholson, London Field Director at The Housing Corporation was in Newham last week to officially open the first phase of Community Housing Group’s regeneration scheme at Brooks Road. Using the latest methods of modern construction Community Housing Group (CHG) are working alongside ROK Group and PRP Architects to provide a total of 188 mixed tenure homes on the East London site which had previously been occupied by tower blocks.


Summit House™ in Residence at Allerton Bywater

16.03.2006

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Bywater Court is an exemplar 23-property development that has been designed by PRP Architects using Fusion Building Systems Ltd residential steel frame technology. At its heart will stand English Partnerships Summit House™, based on a prototype that was originally designed by PRP in 2005.


PRP Wins Leisure and Residential Scheme in Spain

14.03.2006

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PRP has been appointed by Spanish developer Grupo Pinar to produce the residential design for a new leisure and residential ‘village’ development in Spain.


Housing Corp Chair Opens Sheltered Housing scheme

09.03.2006

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A housing scheme providing accommodation for 36 residents over 55 years old, in Islington, which has now been redeveloped and designed by PRP Architects, will be opened by Peter Dixion, Chairman of the Housing Corporation, on Friday 10th March.


Consortium to Deliver South Kilburn Masterplan

15.02.2006

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Bellway plc and Hyde Housing Association are part of a consortium that has been selected as the preferred partner by the London Borough of Brent to deliver the £1 billion regeneration of South Kilburn in London. The decision follows a rigorous selection process and will involve Bellway and consortium partners working jointly to oversee the entire regeneration scheme. Architects PRP and a specialist team will work to design the scheme with the consortium.


Planning consent for Care Homes With a Difference

26.01.2006

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PRP Architects Ltd, has received planning permission for a care home and sheltered housing in Wales that aims to set new standards in care for older people with dementia.


'Massive' Investment Secured For Miles Platting

24.01.2006

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Manchester City Council today announced the preferred partner for the redevelopment of Miles Platting in East Manchester, heralding the start of the first stage in the transformation of a107 hectare (264 acre) area of Manchester, two miles east of the city centre. Through a private finance initiative (PFI), well in excess of £100 million of public money will be invested, along with private sector funding, in a regeneration scheme that will see the refurbishment of approximately 1, 600 council properties and the construction of over 1,000 new build family houses and apartments. The redevelopment work will be undertaken by the Renaissance consortium, which is led by national affordable housing provider Lovell, in partnership with Family Housing Association (Manchester) Ltd - which is part of the Adactus Housing Group - and Mill Group. Architects PRP are the consortium’s designers.


PRP boosts Townplanning & Landscape Architecture

13.01.2006

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PRP Architects Ltd, has today announced two key appointments in Milton Keynes. Town Planner, James Rawlings, and Landscape Architect, Richard Hodgetts, join PRP’s team of 40-strong professionals in Milton Keynes. The appointments enhance PRP’s practice wide expertise in planning and landscape design and reinforce the Milton Keynes office as one of the largest multi-disciplinary practices in the government’s identified key growth area.