Building Design Partnership - Mixed-Use Development - Stockport, Stockport Town Centre

Date: 06 Apr 2006

BDP, as part of a team headed by developer Lend Lease, has won the £500m major retail-led mixed-use redevelopment of Stockport town centre.

This follows on from the strategic Stockport Masterplan also prepared by BDP as an element of the town's 15 year Vision.

BDP's appointment is as lead architect and consultant specifically for the retail-led element. The practice will focus on the Bridgefield site which is identified in the masterplan as Stockport's main retail area and will involve linking into the existing 50,000 sq m retail space and increasing it by approximately 73,000 sq m.

Terry Farrell & Partners have also been appointed to work alongside the team and to give a strategic overview of the masterplan with a view to its wider potential.

The project will be led by BDP Chief Executive Peter Drummond and project director Terry Davenport who said "Stockport is a town with great potential. Excellent progress has already been made restoring part of the town's historic quarter and the Bridgefield site presents the opportunity to deliver a retail-led mixed-use development of high quality to the benefit of the whole town. Our recent significant masterplanning and design work in Manchester and Liverpool city centres has established a recognised high standard which we are keen to continue in Stockport."

The other members of the team are:

Gardiner & Theobald - cost consultants
CBRE - real estate advisors
WSP - transportation engineers
Waterman Group - structural engineers

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