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delivery by two separate operational teams of subcontractors, selected for their varying specialist skills. Groundworks included vibropiling and the complex clean-out and backfill of a former railway tunnel running through the site. The supermarket was completed within 26 weeks and was
handed over to Morrisons in July 2011 for fit-out ahead of the December opening. This key component of the project had to be co-ordinated with delivery of 12 non-food retail units, 62 apartments, 17 mews houses and a 359-space two-storey car park in just over a year. Construction methods included steel frame and brickwork
for the retail units, and – in common with many LPS buildings – timber frame for the residential element, including the apart- ments above the shops. The residential development is all town houses and no
detached properties. The 17 three-storey homes – completed in November 2011 – appear narrow from the outside, but they make full use of internal space. A single corridor provides access to every apartment above the shops in a three-storey block.” The first 32 duplex apartments were finished by December,
with the other 30 and the last eight retail units ready in February 2012. Alastair Shepherd of Liverpool-based architects Falconer
Chester Hall says: “The apartment duplexes form a relatively tight unit but, through clever use of space, we’ve given each of
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Some of the three-storey townhouses
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