Whitgift School Masterplan

Whitgift School is a prominent day and boarding school in Croydon, London. Our appointment in 2018 to implement a 5 to 10-year masterplan for the school entailed analysis of its existing grounds and buildings, extensive assessments of space utilisation and efficiencies, and the drawing up of options for future enhancements to create a safer, more efficient and future-proofed campus for pupils and staff.

The masterplan proposes:

An improved setting of the main, locally-listed building by restoring its Terrace to the original intended form
A safer campus with vehicles and associated pollutants relocated away from the school buildings, achieved by a new carpark accessed from a separate campus entrance and the relocation of maintenance workshops and recycling areas
Additional and improved teaching spaces through the creation of a new classroom extension to the main building and internal alterations and optimisations
A new Sixth Form and Wellness Centre
Provision of new social and gathering space by covering over the school’s Centre Quad
Provision of new external informal activity spaces in the form of a new all-weather pitch, new Junior School playground and a new Senior Quad in the location of existing Gallery carpark
An improved arts complex, including a new theatre and improved music school
Landscaping measures to contribute to better air quality on the site.

Works are underway to provide a safer and enhanced site: the school is now set within a more pedestrianised campus that prioritises pupil health, safety and wellbeing, with vehicular movement relocated away from the school buildings through new access and parking. Other projects underway are the new Estates Department, new Sixth Form and Wellness Centre, and the Centre Quad.

Consultants:

Environmental Engineering: We Design For

Transport: Steer

Cost (early stages): Wenham O' Brien

Project Management and Cost: Gardiner & Theobald