Project example
JCB Academy in converted Arkwright Mill, Staffordshire
Client: Buro Four
Contract value: ££35,000 and ongoing
Key Services: Phase 1, bat, water vole, otter, native crayfish, mitigation
The new JCB Academy will be developed in a Grade II listed Arkwright mill
The JCB Academy, due to open to students in September 2010, will be based in Rocester, Staffordshire, near JCB world headquarters, in a sympathetically renovated and extended, grade II listed original Arkwright Mill, which is being refurbished under a PFI.
Work is already under way to create a light, airy and eco-friendly building, designed for 21st century education. AMA input has been to carry out extended Phase 1 Habitat Survey and detailed work on bats, crayfish, otter, water vole and badger. We prepared a European Protected Species License for bats to allow renovation works to proceed without harm to bats and to provide mitigation including provision of a purpose built ‘bat loft’ in the listed mill building. We will be undertaking on-site supervision and three years of post-construction monitoring, and have also prepared a detailed Mitigation Plan for habitats and protected species to satisfy planning conditions. Our input to the scheme commenced in August 2006 and is on-going.