The following is a selection of the various commissions with which the directors of Hosken Parks have been involved:

Private housing

  • Conversion of a Grade II Listed Victorian mill into executive apartments
  • Construction of town centre apartments
  • Construction of executive waterfront housing
  • Survey and refurbishment of a Grade II Listed thatched cottage and stables
  • Fund monitoring on a range of private housing projects

Affordable housing

  • Construction and conversion of flats and houses for several housing associations
  • Decent Homes surveys, programmes and partnering contracts for housing association and local authority clients
  • Stock condition surveys, validation surveys, non-traditional housing surveys, and planned maintenance programmes for numerous registered social landlords
  • Structural upgrading, over-cladding and refurbishment of several high-rise blocks for local authority clients
  • Fund monitoring on a range schemes containing affordable housing

Retirement housing and care homes

  • Conversion of a Grade II listed Victorian manor into retirement apartments
  • Construction of a new care home and extra care facilities
  • Extension and adaptation of several care homes in a regional portfolio
  • Provision of a new commercial kitchen and related facilities for a care home
  • Fund monitoring of retirement housing and care homes

Hotels and leisure

  • Survey, extension and refurbishment of existing hotels
  • Construction of a new hotel with waterfront location
  • Stock condition surveys on a regional property portfolio for a brewery
  • Extension and refurbishment of various public houses

Finance and insurance

  • Repair and maintenance of regional portfolios for high-street banks
  • Stock condition survey and planned maintenance for banks and building societies
  • Subsidence assessments and insurance reinstatements
  • Fire and flood damage assessments and insurance reinstatements
  • Fund monitoring and distressed lending advice on a range of projects

Education

  • Stock condition surveys and planned maintenance programmes on various primary and secondary schools
  • Repair, adaptation and extension of various primary and secondary schools
  • Asset management survey on a private portfolio of special needs schools
  • Cost planning and project management advice for independent school development

Commercial

  • Pre-acquisition survey and fit-out of headquarters office block
  • Dilapidations, fire and health & safety risk assessments for high-street banks
  • Conversion and fit-out of various office buildings
  • Fund monitoring of commercial projects

Retail premises

  • Conversion and fit-out of a parade of local shops for a local authority
  • Conversion and fit-out of a Grade II listed high-street property for a mobile telecommunications client
  • Fund monitoring on a mixed-use retail, office and residential project

Petrol filling stations

  • Asset management surveys followed by corporate re-branding of the regional portfolio of a major petroleum company

Laboratories and clean rooms

  • Construction and refurbishment of laboratories, clean rooms and associated facilities for a national scientific agency
  • Replacement of chiller plant, air-handling plant, provision of generators and upgrading of power supplies to laboratory sites
  • Establishment of facilities management (FM) contracts on the property portfolios of national scientific and maritime agencies

Industrial, agricultural and food production

  • Extension and upgrading of an independent dairy
  • Cost advice on a waste-to-energy scheme for a major food producer
  • Pre-acquisition surveys on a portfolio of warehouse premises for an international refrigeration and foods company
  • Adaptation of warehouse premises for national scientific agency
  • Condition survey and maintenance plan for a major livestock centre

Telecommunications and IT

  • Condition surveys on the regional premises portfolio of a mobile telecommunications company
  • Conversion of a former supermarket distribution centre into a data centre

Charitable Institutions

  • Construction of lifeboat station for a national charity
  • Adaptation and extension of care homes for a national charity
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