Commercial & Retail

INTERSPORTS HEROES, ST. HELIER

Our Client hoped to adapt two old buildings for creating a modern Sports retailing outlet. We advised this would not work commercially due to restricted floor areas divided by thick structural walls and differing floor levels. We demonstrated it was also cheaper to demolish and build a new purpose designed retail outlet.

This provided an opportunity to achieve unobstructed, sales floors gaining a strong street presence. We persuaded Planning there were material benefits creating a contemporary solution, rather than a pastiche of historic town centre architecture.

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3 MULCASTER STREET, ST. HELIER

We know commercial Clients need to achieve a maximum net to gross internal floor space ratio, with good daylighting, an efficient layout and an excellent working environment.

Office projects benefit from our approach to achieving a net to gross ratio of 85% plus, linked to a medium depth plan form to provide a high level of daylighting and facilitate natural ventilation and cooling, dependent upon the particular site profile.

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DW SPORTS HEATH CLUB, ST. BRELADE’S BAY HOTEL

The new £5M luxury DW Sports branded Health club for St. Brelade’s Bay Hotel, integrated 1,800 sqm of new facilities and car park into very limited space available behind the existing Hotel without impacting on the surrounding Green Backdrop Zone. This was a significant inward investment into Jersey’s Tourism industry, conceived to provide recreation facilities for residents staying at St. Brelade’s Bay Hotel (marketed to over 300,000 DW Sports Fitness UK Club members) also attracting Jersey residents as Club members. The new DW Health Club provides state-of-the-art facilities including a generous gym, an indoor swimming pool containing steam room, a well-being suite of treatment rooms and two Jacuzzi spa’s, general fitness/aerobic studio, male and female changing rooms, and a café / reception.

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