Hillyfield at the Park is a new 4FE primary school that required the remodelling and extension of an empty, and un-loved 1960s secondary school building on the edge of Lloyd Park in Walthamstow, east London. In addition to mainstream spaces, the project provided spaces for children with a variety of special educational learning needs: the project included sensory rooms and therapy rooms.
Our key task was to assess the options for refurbishment, remodelling or new-build (or a hybrid of different forms of development) as well as considering how the school site could be pragmatically laid out. In order to allow the first wave of pupils into the school as early as possible, the project was split into multiple phases that also allowed the challenging budget to be carefully managed.