| Project | Gloucester Quays |
| Client | Peel Developments (UK) Ltd |
| Size | 25 Hectares |
| Location | Gloucester Docks Central Gloucester |
| Value | £200 m |
| Procurement | Management Contract |
| Status | Phase One Complete |
| Sector | Retail |
The Gloucester Quays project is a major £200m mixed use regeneration scheme that is a joint venture between Peel Holdings and British Waterways. This project is the largest single regeneration and redevelopment scheme ever undertaken in Gloucester.
We worked closely, over a 10 year period, with the local planning authority, Highway Authority, Highways Agency, English Heritage, Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company, the South-West RDA, design consultants and other key stakeholders in securing planning permission and other consents to deliver this important regeneration scheme.
The project has involved the provision of architectural and town planning advice over a 10-year period, comprising the management of a multi-discipline team of consultants; analysis and evaluation of the constraints to and opportunities for development; assessment and advice on alternative land use options and mixes of development; the detailed assessment of the significant environmental effects of the proposal; presentation of expert evidence at the call-in inquiry and the discharge of some 100 planning conditions.
Gloucester Quays occupies 25 hectares of largely industrial land and derelict historic buildings at the northern end of the Canal Corridor, straddling both sides of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. The northern boundary of the site is adjacent to Gloucester Docks, Llanthony Secunda Priory and the new Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology campus.
Planning permission was granted for:
- 20,000 sq m of Designer Factory Outlet Shopping Centre
- Sainsbury’s Supermarket
- 5,000 sq m bars and restaurants
- 1,000 new homes
- 9,000 sq m offices and workshops
- 4,000 sq m Four Star hotel (80 bedroom)
- Travel Lodge budget hotel (100 bedroom0
- Gloucestershire College of Art Technology
- Antique Centre
- Multiplex Cinema
- 14 historic buildings repaired
- Completion of inner relief road / canal bridge
A new ‘lifting’ bridge completes the Inner Relief Road and there are improved transport links connecting Gloucester Quays to the city centre. Cycle and pedestrian links have been established along with additional car and coach parking. Llanthony Priory will be improved and form part of the new Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology.
The first phases of the development included the delivery of considerable highway improvements, the first hotel and the main part of the outlet shopping centre are now complete.
