Corstorphine & Wright: Leisure

Creating destinations people want to visit time and time again

Leisure

The leisure sector is evolving, with demand booming and occupiers requiring increasing amounts of space. We help put you on the front foot of these developments.

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Our team brings a unique mix of leisure perspectives and experiences – working with clients ranging from national chains to boutique operators and from local authorities to institutional investors. This brochure gives you a taste of how we drive successful schemes. To learn more and discuss our additional work in this sector, simply get in touch

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About Us

Over the years, we’ve designed our leisure schemes and developed masterplans to regenerate town centres. And we’ve integrated a variety of uses, from cinemas, bowling and casinos to food and beverage.

The common denominator? Our ability to create destinations that encourage dwell time and connect with the wider environment.

This ability is rooted in our placemaking focus and cross-sector expertise spanning retail, mixed use and urban design. You’re therefore in a strong position to deliver schemes that draw people in, benefit the local community and generate revenue streams.

With Corstorphine & Wright, you get vibrant places that attract footfall, deliver experiences and support the localism agenda.

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Why Corstorphine & Wright

With Corstorphine & Wright, you get better places and spaces – which means more value for clients and communities. Using our tried-and-tested methodology and drawing on experience from our 280+ strong team, we deliver a design-driven, commercially-aware service.

Insight

Client Centricity

We engage with you throughout the project lifecycle, creating viable schemes that achieve your goals.

Your primary contact is a director, who spearheads ongoing coordination with all stakeholders from contractors and community groups to local authorities and design review boards. Throughout the project, we take a critical, informed approach so we can proactively meet changing needs.

Clients tell us we’re unique in our ability to stay current, get under the skin of where the market’s going and integrate learnings from the many sectors we work in. You therefore benefit from market knowledge and the latest design techniques – which helps you maximise value over the long term.

We look beyond architecture to identify opportunities that help make each individual scheme a success. This includes conducting feasibility studies, advising on how best to use sites, and reviewing proposed schemes to identify areas that can be improved.

Market

Results Focus

With Corstorphine & Wright, you get the expertise and resource you need at every stage. This starts from developing the brief, advising on the best combination of uses and obtaining planning consent.

And it extends to using BIM modelling and facilitating the use of innovative construction methods. We’re known for our attention to detail at every stage, creating places that are more than the sum of their parts.

Intelligent Design

People are the unifying factor in everything we do, and our approach is rooted in our understanding of the way places influence behaviour. We’re known for making design accessible – balancing uses, removing barriers, building momentum, enhancing the public realm and translating this into successful spaces.

Importantly, we combine this with a track record of designing viable schemes that maximise both community and commercial potential. This helps you optimise opportunities from an investment perspective while delivering places people want to visit, live near and work in.

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Compelling Experiences

Successful leisure

Our approach focuses on building a true destination, whether your site is a retail park, shopping centre, arena, country park or town centre. That way, you give the best possible experience to tenants and visitors while maximising value – and broader regeneration possibilities. Our approach focuses on building a true destination, whether your site is a retail park, shopping centre, arena, country park or town centre. That way, you give the best possible experience to tenants and visitors while maximising value – and broader regeneration possibilities.

schemes don’t exist in isolation – they link with the surrounding area and public realm in order to attract people and keep them there.

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Place-Driven Design

When it comes to design, we think outside the box, literally. We don’t just create a box on a site, call it a cinema or casino or arena, add parking and watch people come and go.

Instead, we look at how each design element contributes to a sense of place –from the moment people arrive, as they pass through landscaping and common areas, and as they enjoy the activities on offer.

When you work with us, you benefit from creative ideas to engage the public realm, maximise linkages and incorporate additional uses.

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Value & Delivery

We have a deep understanding of how leisure operates, incorporating everything from security to acoustic performance to back-of-house operations. We therefore promote operational efficiency and maximise site utilisation, benefiting tenants and clients alike. As a result, you get a welldesigned scheme that will achieve its potential and deliver on your goals.

With Corstorphine & Wright, you get more than high-quality design, you get designs that can be delivered.

Selected Experience

– Whitely Cinema, Fareham

– The Barcode, Plymouth

– The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

– Leake Street Arches, London

– Stockeld Park, North Yorkshire

Whitely Cinema

Comprising the second phase of the redevelopment of the Whiteley Town Centre, the development provides a nine screen multiplex cinema (to be operated by Cineworld) over 30,000 sq ft of ground floor restaurant and leisure units.

The design takes on the high quality façade treatment of the Town Centre and adds eye-catching panelled cladding featuring iridescent strips to create a modern, bold landmark building.

The building achieved a BREEAM

Excellent rating enabled by package of measures including a solar PV installation, environmental and waste management measures, and over 95% of construction waste re-used.

The Barcode is new leisure destination for British Land comprising an 12 screen cinema, 13 restaurant units and a sky bar.

The development creates an exciting mix of leisure activities together with food offers, complementing the existing shopping facilities within Drake Circus and the surrounding area, and the 420 on-site parking spaces.

The Barcode, Plymouth

The Barcode is the result of the transformation of a dated bus interchange in Plymouth’s city centre.

Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

As a key partner to securing the UK City of Culture 2021 bid, the Trust approached us to support their aims in strengthening the Theatre’s profile as a family friendly destination that attracts a wider, younger audience. Split over two phases our brief was to carry out an extensive refurbishment of the original building’s fabric, which had witnessed unsympathetically alterations over the years. This included the café and restaurant, which required modernising and expanding to increase its food and beverage offering, with the ability to operate independently

Our comprehensive refurbishment of the café and restaurant sees us work with our interior designer to deliver a contemporary new café that reflects the buildings original 1950s period.

Leake Street Arches, London

Completed in September

2017, this project sees the refurbishment of the arches and vaults beneath the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo Station. It aims to create a vibrant urban dining destination and multi-use areas for events, festivals and pop-up markets. A high-profile project located on the site of the famous Banksy graffiti tunnel, it involved working closely with local artists and community groups to ensure the scheme embraced the established urban culture and environment –while creating a new, aspirational restaurant, bar and cultural hub to spearhead the regeneration of the South Bank area.

The scheme involved the excavation and removal of existing physical infrastructure to provide new, accessible routes through the site.

Stockeld Park, North Yorkshire

Stockeld Park, set between Harrogate and Wetherby in Yorkshire, is a 2000-acre agricultural estate made up of beautiful rolling parkland, extensive farmland and Yorkshire’s finest and largest Christmas tree plantation. Each year, tens of thousands of visitors come to the adventure park.

Whilst the park is predominantly an outdoor attraction, the proposed facility will help make the business more sustainable in differing weather conditions. Internally the building will be themed into 4 key play zones with exciting installations comprising climbing equipment and slides all within a safe environment.

The centrepiece to each zone will be a constructed element that extends up into the rooflight area and are linked internally via high level gantrys.

Further Project Information

Belvoir Retail & Leisure Quarter, Coalville for: Lathdale Developments Ltd

Noteworthy Elements:

› 5 screen cinema and combined flexible community uses

› New café & restaurant uses

› Bowling alley

› Health & Leisure club

Scotch Corner for: Scotch Corner Richmond LLP

Noteworthy Elements:

› Scotch Corner Designer Village will include a unique combination of retail outlet stores, leisure for all ages, cafés and restaurants as well as the UK’s largest home and garden centre from Day 1. All set in 100 acres of healthy green space. A truly regional, national and international destination.

Tollgate Village, Colchester for: Tollgate Partnership Ltd

Noteworthy Elements:

› 1,300 seat cinema split over 2 levels

› Surface level parking with 1,180 Customer spaces

› Strong pedestrian routes, public realm and landscaping

Leisure World, Southampton for: UBS / £250m

Noteworthy Elements:

› Cinema, casino, ice rink, wellbeing, workspace

› 2 No. 150-room hotels and 80 serviced hotel apartments

› Vibrant new public realm will draw people in, and the opened-up space will facilitate better linkages within the city centre

› Collaborated with the council, Associated British Ports and the community

› Conducted in-depth discussions on the scheme’s context within the council’s Southampton 2030 plans and , focusing on phasing so the scheme is deliverable

This brochure gives you a taste of the leisure projects we’ve worked on across the country. Here’s additional information about our recent work.

Leake Street Arches

£4.2m / Completed 2017

Noteworthy Elements:

› this project sees the refurbishment of the arches and vaults beneath the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo Station

Whitely Cinema, Fareham for: British Land & USS / £10m

Noteworthy Elements: 2nd phase of the redevelopment of the Whiteley Town Centre, the development provides:

› 9 screen multiplex cinema (operated by Cineworld)

› over 30,000 sq ft of ground floor restaurant and leisure units.

Belgrade Theatre, Coventry for: Belgrade Theatre Trust Ltd

£4.7m / Completed 2021

Noteworthy Elements:

› Comprehensive refurbishment of the café and restaurant

› The design takes on the high quality façade treatment of the Town Centre and adds eye-catching panelled cladding featuring iridescent strips to create a modern, bold landmark building

› The building achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating

Becketwell, Derby for: St James Securities

Noteworthy Elements:

› 3,500-capacity entertainment and events venue

› Part of a wider masterplan that takes up 3.5% of Derby city centre – includes a new public square

› Designed a phased approach that balanced placemaking with deliverability

› Focus on enhancing the Victorian heritage while providing a vibrant, modern place to draw businesses and consumers

Stockeld Park for: Stockeld Farm Ltd

Completion due 2022

The Barcode, Plymouth for: British Land

£53m / Completion 2019

Noteworthy Elements:

› The proposed facility will help make the business more sustainable in differing weather conditions

Cottis Lane, Epping for: Qualis Group

Noteworthy Elements:

› The strategic masterplan for Epping aims to celebrate the area’s heritage, redevelop key sites and interconnect those sites with a coherent public realm and green infrastructure

Noteworthy Elements:

› The Barcode is new leisure destination for British Land comprising an 12 screen cinema, 13 restaurant units and a sky bar

› 420 on-site parking spaces

› Internally the building will be themed into 4 key play zones with exciting installations comprising climbing equipment and slides all within a safe environment

The leisure sector is evolving, with demand booming and occupiers requiring increasing amounts of space. We help put you on the front foot of these developments.