Development Projects

Jeff Bishop recently led the consultation team on an extremely exciting, sustainability-led, internationally significant project for the Science Museum Wroughton (on an old airfield near Swindon).

Part of Jeff Bishop's work in Rome was to manage (with Ray Lorenzo) the early stages of a collaborative process to regenerate the redundant central markets. Work has now started on site with a complex partnership and a very mixed project.

BDOR now work regularly with multi-disciplinary teams on regeneration projects initiated by the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA). Our role is as Consultation Managers but working very closely with, and helping to integrate, the overall teams. Recent - and highly successful - SWRDA projects have been in Dursley, Gloucestershire (with a team led by Arups), on the Morlands site in Glastonbury, Somerset(in a team led by RPS), in Weston-super-Mare, Trowbridge and Salisbury (with Gillespies).

Jeff Bishop is currently working in the consultant team appointed by Persimmon to progress a masterplam for a development of 2.500 houses and other facilities adjacent to Grove (near Wantage). Jeff is amanaging the complex community engagement process.

HENGROVE PARK

This project merits a fuller description. Several years ago, London consultants were brought in to develop plans to improve and add new buildings to a huge area of poort quality open space in South Bristol - Hengrove Park (another old airfield). They did no consultation, the project generated enormous protest and was dropped (with a major waste of money). BDOR came in to rebuild community and stakeholder confidence and then join the Arup-led team to start afresh.

After many months of careful and thorough community involvement an exciting new scheme emerged (exciting enough to attract extra funding) and a planning application was submitted. Despite planner fears of another massive protest, the application received a "staggeringly small" number of objections!