Month: <span>June 2018</span>

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RRA wins award for Pittville Gates restoration project

June 14, 2018 / By admin

Historic England (formerly English Heritage) has awarded a commendation in the Angel Awards to the Friends of Pittville for the project to restore Pittville Gates, carried out by RRA and the contractor AMPM. The gates have been successfully rescued due to the tremendous time, effort and determination of the Friends. Historic England annually organise an […]

RRA appointed for large church re-ordering project

June 13, 2018 / By admin

The parish of Leckhampton, in Cheltenham, have appointed RRA to help deliver their church re-ordering project within a Gothic Revival Victorian church, St. Philip & St. James’, designed by John Middleton, in the late 19th Century, which is located right in the heart of Cheltenham. The church, built between 1879 and 1882, was subsequently fitted […]

St Mary’s Church and St Gabriel’s Church, Worcestershire

June 12, 2018 / By admin

At RRA we know that Britain’s architectural heritage helps us associate a feeling-of-place, and without careful management of these important historic assets, places can quickly fall into disrepair. A key part of the professional services we provide is to carry out quinquennial inspections, on a five-yearly rotation, for many churches all over the country. These […]

Mixed Use Residential Development – Canning Town

June 11, 2018 / By admin

This mixed use residential development in Canning Town, East London is being located on a former smokery site. RRA helped to unlock planning permission on this challenging site as overlooking and proximity to neighbouring potential development was a planning constraint. We have been producing detail drawings and material specification for the project, to discharge planning […]

First Look – The White House, an earth sheltered house

June 10, 2018 / By admin

This rural Herefordshire open countryside site is a gently sloping topography surrounded by mature trees and fields with a substantial earth mound forming the backdrop to the proposal. The project is conceived as a part earth sheltered V-shaped plan that thrusts up through the sloping landscape. The proposed roof is a turf roof, and the […]

Planning approved in open countryside for earth sheltered eco-house

June 9, 2018 / By admin

  This will be the first earth sheltered home, not only located adjacent to an area of outstanding beauty, but located within a wider parkland setting of a landscape designed by Repton. RRA has secured planning permission for a groundbreaking eco-house to be built within the boundaries of the wider parkland setting of a Repton […]

Restoring the 5th Bell – All Saints Church

June 8, 2018 / By admin

Heritage and conservation work forms a major part of RRA’s professional service, which we carry out for clients all over the UK, and it is always a great privilege to be involved with work on some of the nations best heritage. As a finite resource, the care of heritage is something we take very seriously, […]

micro project – Hereford coach house

June 7, 2018 / By admin

  This micro project, in the form of a coach house, converts a slice of Victorian Britain. Located in the back streets of the City of Hereford RRA’s involvement began when we were called to assist the Client to purchase the property at a public auction and to provide design advice as to how this […]

Basement Excavation – Barrowgate Road, Chiswick

June 6, 2018 / By admin

Judging by our ongoing subterranean basement excavation project in Chiswick and this picture taken by Duncan Gunn – RRA’s London Director – there is a dearth of high quality, reportage photography from what are often very dynamic and photogenic scenes, within subterranean construction sites across London. Not only is Duncan a registered architect but he […]

RRA scores a try with Twickenham house extension

June 4, 2018 / By admin

Demolition work has commenced on RRA’s house refurbishment and extension project in Twickenham. The house is a Building of Townscape Merit in a Conservation Area and Richmond Council passed plans without any problems. The scheme includes extensive internal remodeling with two new en-suite bathrooms being added and a newly designed main staircase. A glass infill […]