Muse Developments has received the go-ahead for BREEAM ‘excellent’ office building in Bradford city centre, One City Park
One City Park will be built on a former police HQ site and addresses the shortage in high-quality office space in Bradford city centre.
It will offer flexible and modern accommodation for a range of businesses and organisations.
Earlier this year, Bradford Council secured £7.5m from the government’s Getting Building Fund through West Yorkshire Combined Authority, to accelerate the delivery of One City Park.
The scheme will create more than 300 jobs throughout construction, and a further 450 jobs once complete.
One City Park is a key part of the council’s wider regeneration of the city, with major ongoing investment into transport and infrastructure as part of the £50m Transforming Cities public realm enhancement programme.
‘State-of-the-art and energy efficient’
Development director at Muse Developments, Simon Dew, said: “As specialists in place-changing regeneration, we’ve really embedded ourselves in Bradford and worked closely with the council, local stakeholders and the wider business community over the last 18 months to make sure that One City Park will be a landmark development for the city, and act as a green light for Muse Developments’ landmark One City Park in Bradford.
“There’s no doubt that the pandemic has changed the way we work, and we’ve taken this into consideration by designing a scheme that will accommodate flexible, hybrid working patterns – but is also state-of-the-art, energy efficient and where collaboration and creativity can thrive.”
‘High-quality and flexible office space’
Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, leader of Bradford Council, added: “To support the next stage of our growth and ambition for Bradford, the city centre needs new, high-quality and flexible office space to keep home-grown businesses in the district and to attract new organisations from outside the region.
“Getting the green light for this development, on the back of Bradford being longlisted for UK City of Culture 2025, is another step in our plans for delivering regeneration.
“We look forward to working with Muse to bring the scheme to completion over the coming months.”
The five-storey building will also feature leisure space on the ground floor.
New public realm created around the site will include the transformation of existing green space to the south into a pocket park.
The development will feature many sustainable elements, including high-performance glazing to maximise natural light but reduce solar gain, alongside photovoltaic panels and air source heat pumps.
It will also include 10 car-parking spaces, all of which will have electric car charging points and extensive secure cycle storage and changing facilities on the ground floor to encourage more sustainable methods of travel to work.
Work will begin in spring 2022 and is due to complete in spring 2023.
