Leeds City Council has approved Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ plans for a £350 million South Bank scheme, which includes the construction of the city’s tallest tower. The plans also cover two office blocks, providing 26,100 m² of commercial and shopping space, together with an extra 103,900 m² of offices, retail,
Most recently, Sovini Property Services has successful been placed on a total of five frameworks put together by Lancashire County Council and Fusion21. To include all manner of works, these frameworks cover everything from maintenance, all the way through electrical and mechanical contracting, construction, installation and works for heating systems
Leeds City Council has approved Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ plans for a £350 million South Bank scheme, which includes the construction of the city’s tallest tower. The plans also cover two office blocks, providing 26,100 m² of commercial and shopping space, together with an extra 103,900 m² of offices, retail, leisure, hotel, health, education and community uses, parking and up to 750 new homes in buildings ranging in height from five to 40 storeys towards the rear of the development. The project is developed by Commercial Estates Group (CEG). “It has been a pleasure to work with CEG, the wider team and the City over the past few years in developing a project that will be key to the regeneration of historic Holbeck and the future transformation of the city centre as a whole,” said Alex Whitbread, Partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. FCBS’s 40-storey Globe Waterside residential tower is expected to be taller than Leeds’s current tallest building, 32-storey Bridgewater Place Tower, as well as BDP’s 33-storey mixed-use tower proposed for the western gateway to the city centre. “This derelict site is an important core in the west of the city, an area which has suffered from neglect over a number of years. This is set to change,” said David Hodgson, head of strategic development north for CEG David Hodgson. “At the heart of the South Bank regeneration area, our proposals will deliver the same attention to detail and quality as we are delivering at our award-winning Kirkstall Forge development. This will be an exciting mixed-use strategic development of a critical mass and international standard, revitalising the area and reconnecting local communities to the city,” he continued. CEG has also developed the £400 million Kirkstall Forge masterplan to the west of the city centre, which will provide 1,050 new homes, 28, 000 m2 of office space and 9,300 m2 of leisure and retail space once it is completed.
Most recently, Sovini Property Services has successful been placed on a total of five frameworks put together by Lancashire County Council and Fusion21. To include all manner of works, these frameworks cover everything from maintenance, all the way through electrical and mechanical contracting, construction, installation and works for heating systems – a truly diverse range of services. As for the frameworks, the Fusion21 Installation Works Framework, is a national planned-maintenance framework estimated to sit at a total value of some £300m over the course of a four year period. The Fusion 21 Servicing, Maintenance and Installation of Heating Systems Framework, on the other hand, sets out works for an assortment of both reactive and planned works for a mixture of commercial and domestic installations; in total, this framework being worth somewhere up to a value of £200m, also over a four year period. Sovini Property Services has also seen success in landing a number of maintenance and repairs frameworks for a variety of construction and M&E works with Lancashire County Council. These then tie in very nicely with the company’s success on the Fusion21 frameworks and effectively paint a very busy future for the company in the times to come. This, also comes very quickly onwards from the company’s most recent success in landing a £1.2m framework for the adaptation of homes for tenants with disabilities, on behalf of Blackpool Borough Council. Nodding to the recent stream of success for the company, Sovini Property Services’ Managing Director, Phil Pemberton highlighted the incredible achievement of the company in landing so many key frameworks within such a small period of time – a matter of weeks, in fact. He then went on to add: “We have surpassed our financial targets this year, and the business as well as our reputation has grown exponentially as showcased by these accomplishments.”
