|
|
Project
ASHMORE LAKE WAY - WOLVERHAMPTON
Robert Wiseman Dairies
The Practice had produced numerous
development proposals over a long period of time for a local
developer client on a derelict six acre site at Ashmore Lake
Way, Wolverhampton. Then in late 1998 the developer received
an enquiry from Robert Wiseman, a Scottish based milk producer,
to purchase the whole site in order to construct a regional
distribution facility that would receive milk from its Manchester
dairy and distribute it to supermarkets in the West Midlands
area. The land was subsequently sold to Robert Wiseman who
commissioned Building Design Practice to fully design and
project manage the entire development.
The project consisted of a 550 square metre sales office and
amenity area, a 2325 square metre chill store operating at
+2°C, complete with 12 dock levellers, a vehicle maintenance
bay, vehicle washing and fuelling facilities and four acres
of concrete service yard for 70 HGV vehicles with each parking
space having hook-up points to maintain the on-board vehicle
chiller units. The depot provides ‘just in time’
deliveries to most major supermarket chains and has provided
much needed employment in the Willenhall area.
The project value was £2.5 million and took 36 weeks
to construct. During the construction programme the Practice
were further commissioned to begin design proposals for a
new dairy on a 16 acre site in Droitwich thus expanding the
Robert Wiseman operation further southwards. Like Manchester
this new dairy will feed the depot at Ashmore Lake. |
