Claremont Fan Court School

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Claremont Fan Court School

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Educational › Elementary School High School
Landscape + Planning › Masterplan

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Concept

Long term development plan for an independent school set in an outstanding 90-acre historic landscape. The masterplan establishes a comprehensive and flexible framework for phased development across the whole site over the next 20 years to improve facilities, refocus the campus and reinforce the historic setting.

Claremont Fan Court School is a co-educational day school for pupils aged 2 to 18. Its highly sensitive site is in the Green Belt and of major heritage significance with several scheduled monuments, grades I/II*/II listed buildings and a landscape listed grade I in the ‘Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest’. It includes surviving work by Vanbrugh, Bridgeman, Kent, Capability Brown and Soane.

Masterplan assesses the complex constraints and opportunities, establishes strategic development principles and defines outline proposals for new and refurbished buildings, landscape improvement, transport/parking, accessibility and sustainability across the whole site. It includes a complex phasing/decanting strategy and construction management delivery plan.

First phases of development are designed in full detail and include a new Science & Technology Faculty, extension and refurbishment of listed Stable Court for the prep school, as well as landscape enhancement and new parking arrangements across the site. Future construction phases include a new library, music school, dining/kitchen, sixth form, Humanities Faculty and swimming pool as well as restoration of the listed Mansion, Belvedere & White Cottage and refurbishment of other existing buildings.

The development plan is the outcome of a rigorous process of brief development, options studies and assessments, including a Conservation & Management Plan, transport assessments, ecological surveys and an environmental impact assessment. Extensive consultation was undertaken over a many years with the school community, local authority, English Heritage, National Trust, HLF, and neighbours.

A ‘hybrid’ planning consent was granted including outline approval for the site-wide masterplan and full detailed/ listed building approval for Phase 1.