Colwall C of E Primary School
- Client
- Herefordshire Council & Kier Construction
- Location
- Colwall, Herefordshire
- Project Leaders
- Joyce Clifford Zoë Lindgren Mike Court
- Value
- 5M
Challenge
Quattro was appointed to provide a new 210 place primary school on a greenfield site; designed to respond to the rural setting and valued backdrop of The Malvern Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
This site had several constraints:
- The Malvern Hills AONB; designated landscape of national importance
- Native ecology and biodiversity
- Highways connectivity to the wider community
- Maintain Public Rights of Way
- Proximity of a Scheduled Ancient Monument
These constraints meant the planning context was extremely sensitive and complex therefore, a busy programme of open dialogue with the Planning Department was essential.
Local Delivery: Compliance with the ESFA Cost Plan and FOS was mandatory.
3D Fly Through Preview
If you would like our team of Education Architects to design your school, our Visualisation Team can create a 3D fly through video to convey our state-of-the-art, striking, sustainable and technically strong Education Design. This is the video we created for Colwall Primary School to share with their stakeholders.
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Solution
Quattro’s Design solution:
- Designed to be sympathetic and landscape led
- Minimise impact within AONB
- Maximise views and connections with AONB
- Create a ‘sense of place’
- New school to have a strong identity
- Embrace school’s ethos
A combined Landscape Visual Impact Assessment and Environmental Colour Assessment (ECA) of the site informed the design.
The Planning Officer considered this a first regionally, if not nationally.
Our design contributes to society:
- The hall is a ‘community hub’
- Improvements to PROW
- Highways improvements
- Reinstatement of historic hedgerow
The approach taken by the Quattro team has led to a brilliant highly acclaimed design that exceeds our requirements.
Herefordshire Council
Quattro went to great lengths to listen and incorporate ideas from a wide range of people who have an interest in the project. Their commitment extended well beyond the working day and meant the community felt fully and engaged and listened to.
Herefordshire Council
In many respects this was a relatively ground breaking innovative approach that may be regarded as an exemplar regionally (if not nationally).
Herefordshire Council
The commitment shown to meeting very tight deadlines, strict planning regulations and understanding the complexities of the local area has been phenomenal. This has been a huge task and we are delighted that Quattro have ensured that planning permission has been granted for our fabulous school.
Colwall C of E Primary School, Malvern
The design process had significant challenges not least the time scales to get an agreed scheme in place. I would like to really compliment the team on how they steered through these so calmly and competently and I hope we can work with them again on future projects.
Herefordshire Council
The process of working with Quattro on the design for our new school building has been an amazing experience...I felt that we were in very safe hands and completely trusted the team to guide us in making decisions in the best interests of the school.
Colwall C of E Primary School, Malvern
The result is a beautiful, functional, affordable and contemporary public building which is strongly grounded in its place.
Colwall C of E Primary School, Malvern
Little did we know when we designed it that it is a perfectly brilliant COVID friendly adaptable school!
Colwall C of E Primary School, Malvern