Education & Community

Dining Building Submitted for Planning at John Port Spencer Academy

Exciting developments are underway at John Port Spencer Academy in Derbyshire, as plans have been submitted for a new dining building, marking the final phase of a five-phase expansion project. This addition will support the secondary school’s growth from a 360 published admission number to 420. The new facility will provide a dining space for…

Planning Approval For Heyford Park School

Planning approval has recently been received to provide a new primary school building at Heyford Park school, freeing up space to expand the 11-16 secondary accommodation at the main campus. This is great news for the project, which has been developed for Oxfordshire County Council and the EPA Trust to provide additional pupil places to…

Oxford City Sponsorship

We have been sponsors of the Oxford City girls under 13’s football team this season, with our logo proudly displayed on their training tops. One of the Thinking Buildings family trains and plays for the team, who compete in the Oxford Youth Girls Football League. Often dubbed “the beautiful game,” football has historically been dominated…

Steel Frame Complete at School Site

Works at John Port Spencer Academy in Derbyshire are progressing well with Bailey Construction. The steel frame is complete, with the focus now turning to the ground floor, brickwork, and the roof. Planning requirements stipulated the site was to be under the watch of a professional archaeologist. With relief, there was no archaeology of any…

Planning Approved for Bloxham School Sports

We are really delighted that the application for extensions to Bloxham School’s Dewey Sport Centre, including sports floodlighting, 5 new netball/tennis courts and parking improvements, was approved in line with the officer’s recommendation at the Cherwell Planning Committee last month. The proposal will deliver a number of significant benefits both to Bloxham School and the…

Reframing an Existing School

We have been working with Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust and Oxfordshire County Council to remodel and existing Junior School (ages 7-11) to become a full Primary School (ages 3-11). To do this, the scheme proposes to refurbish one existing wing to provide and early years unit, with dedicated play space; and a new modular classroom…

Listed Building Consent Granted For Care Home

We’ve recently been granted listed building consent to works on a listed building operated as a care home. The works were mainly maintenance items, but also included converting a hayloft into a new office. Listed building consent is not the same as planning approval. It is a separate consent reserved for listed buildings. It also…

Marlborough in The Oxford Mail

It was great to see this article in the Oxford Mail confirming the funding of our project to expand The Marlborough School in Woodstock. Tenders have been returned and we hope to bring works on site before the summer holidays. This is a particularly complex project on a constrained site, and we have had to…

Latest John Port Planning Submitted

The next phase of work at John Port Spencer Academy in Etwall, Derbyshire, has been submitted for planning approval. We are providing a building with new hall containing dining facilities within the existing campus. The double height space includes retractable bleacher seating to provide a space with great flexibility, along with a new kitchen and…

New Teaching Shelter For School

We’re delighted to confirm full planning approval has now been granted for a much needed timber teaching shelter at a Derbyshire primary school. Middleton Community Primary School is set in the wonderful Derbyshire Dales on the edge of the Peak District. These timber structures are all season, being great in the summer for providing shade…