Walker Morris - Walker Morris team advise on new fire service
facilities at Prince Charles' Poundbury Model Village
Lawyers from Walker Morris have completed work on a
£150 million PFI project that will see a new fire
station and fire services headquarters built in
Poundbury, the model village being developed by Prince
Charles on his Duchy of Cornwall estate.
The development is part of a novel project in which the
Dorset Police Authority and the Dorset Fire Authority
have combined to jointly procure two new fire stations,
a fire service head quarters and a divisional police
headquarters.
The Walker Morris team acted for the contractor, PFF (
Dorset) Ltd, which was specially formed for the project
by Carden Croft & Co Ltd, Morgan Sindall Investments Ltd
and Barclays Capital Finance.
The buildings in Poundbury village will be designed to
reflect the architectural style of the development. The
two other emergency service centres, a divisional police
headquarters and a new fire station, are to be built in
Poole.
Work is expected to start almost immediately with all
four elements of the project completed and operational
by the end of 2009.
David Kilduff, head of the Walker Morris Commercial
Group, said today:-
“This was a protracted and sometimes complex project to
bring to completion but we have extensive experience of
large scale, complicated PFI projects and were able to
assemble a multi-disciplined team able to achieve this.
Our success in closing the project, negotiated in both
Dorset and London, demonstrates our ability to fully
support clients nationwide from our centre of excellence
in Leeds.”
“The project will deliver a range of modern emergency
services facilities to the people of Dorset.”
Walker Morris has established a national reputation for
its work on major PFI projects.
Earlier this year, Commercial Group lawyers finalised
what is thought to be one of the UK’s largest and most
significant waste disposal PFI schemes, a 25 year, £2
billion deal on behalf of Lancashire County Council and
also completed a £65 million schools, PFI building
project for Clackmannanshire Council.
The Dorset scheme is the latest transaction in more than
£5 billion of PFI/Project work handled by the Commercial
Group, including major schools building and waste
disposal programmes around the country, in the last
three years.
The Walker Morris team comprised lawyers from the
Commercial Group ( Mark Sanderson, David Kilduff,
Richard Auton and Richard White), Property Department
(Chris Woodthorpe), Corporate Department ( Emma Marsden)
and Finance Group ( Michael Taylor and Helen Duffy).
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