1. Our Residential Team
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Commercial/ Industrial
Education
Health
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Residential
Retail

2. Introduction
Watson Batty was established in 1976, offering architectural
services to a wide client base. Over the years the practice has
expanded its services and scope to provide cutting edge
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architecture, surveying and interiors to a wide range of clients.
Commercial/ Industrial
Education
We strive to add value to every project by firstly taking the time
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to understand our clients and their specific needs and
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We appreciate that good design must be combined with the
ability to undertake projects to time and budget, and employ
only highly qualified personnel and the most sophisticated
technology available to achieve these aims.
We undertake projects throughout the UK ranging from
commercial refurbishments to multi-million pound new builds to
ground breaking regeneration schemes.

3. Introduction
Established since 1976
Conveniently based in Guiseley north Leeds
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Commercial/ Industrial Developed our own sustainable offices in 2006
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Health 42 staff
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Retail 19 Technical Staff
£3M turnover last year
Cross sector experience
Housing and regeneration experience
Specialist services

4. Our New Offices
Passive sustainable
design
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Commercial/ Industrial
Grey water
recovery
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Residential Building orientation
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Natural stack
ventilation
Under floor heating
and cooling
Ground source heat
pumps

5. Company Structure
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Commercial/ Industrial
Education
Health
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Residential
Retail

6. Company Structure
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Commercial/ Industrial
Education
Health
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Residential
Retail

7. Team Structure
Richard Merrills
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Commercial/ Industrial Design Technical Delivery
Education
Health
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Stephen Jones Matthew Lobley Keith Southernwood Chris Miller
Catherine Blain Joe Ewen Tom Sykes Marc Kirwin

8. Our Approach
• Customer driven
• Interested in the end user
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• Enthusiastic team
Commercial/ Industrial
Education • Experienced in a variety of fields
Health • Keen to learn
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• Committed to sustainability
Retail - in construction
- in communities

9. Our Procedures
• We are BS EN ISO 9001 Quality Assured by BM
Trada, with a robust working ethic to create a
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• We have obtained ‘Investors in People’
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certification which reinforces the training and
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Residential Watson Batty.
Retail • We have regular CPD events and in-house design
reviews to allow the whole office to have a role in
the work we do.

10. Trends and Legislation
• Up to date with current legislation.
• Our regeneration/masterplanning work lays the
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Commercial/ Industrial
areas function
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Health - CABE - Manual for Streets
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- Secured by Design
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- PPS3
• Our experience with social/affordable housing
gives us working knowledge of:
- SDS - Code for Sustainable Homes
- HQI - Wheelchair user guides
- Robust details - Lifetime Homes

11. Projects……
Watson Batty Architects work in:
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• Regeneration and masterplanning
Commercial/ Industrial
Education
• Public sector residential
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Residential • Private sector residential
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• Mixed Tenure Redevelopment
• Decent Homes Refurbishment
• Extra Care & Elderly Accommodation

12. Residential Sector – Strategy to Handover
Watson Batty Architects have over 10 years experience of
working in the Residential sector. The residential sector
accounts for nearly 25% of our current work load and has been
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a steadily growing sector over the last few years.
Commercial/ Industrial
Education
Health
We have completed projects from minor refurbishment and
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estate master plans.
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Public Consultation and resident engagement proves particularly
effective in helping to ensure that the process of procuring
project is much smoother as potential community issues have
been addressed at an early stage.
Our Regeneration projects include Beeston Hill - Leeds, Deighton
& Brackenhall - Huddersfield, Bank Top – Blackburn, Thurnscoe,
New Lodge & Athersley - Barnsley, and North Bransholme – Hull.

13. Residential – Social / Affordable
Watson Batty Architects have a wealth of experience in Public
Sector Affordable Housing. We have been influential in the
delivery of a number of projects for some of the regions major
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Local Authorities, ALMOs, RSLs, Housing Associations, Developer
Commercial/ Industrial
partners.
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Our key affordable housing provider clients in this sector are:
Leisure [Insert Picture Here] Pennine Housing 2000, Twin Valley Homes, Synergy Housing
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Solutions, Firebird JVC, Sadeh Lok, Chevin Housing Group, Accent
Retail Group, InCommunities and Sanctuary Housing.
We also have successful working relationships with the following
developer partners: Bramall Construction, Wates Living Space,
Lovell, Strata Construction, ROK, Southdale Homes, Clayfield
Construction and Connaught.
This is a major part of our residential work and we look to
continuing our successful working relationships in the future.

14. Residential – Private Sales
We have completed several Private Sector Housing projects in the
North of England. Although many have been part of a mixed
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Commercial/ Industrial one-off smaller developments.
Education
Health Our clients include Keepmoat Homes, Circa Homes, Strata
Leisure [Insert Picture Here] Homes, Lovell, Antler Homes, and Richardson Homes.
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Retail We have enjoyed successful relationships with these developers
as they appreciate not only our knowledge of Private sector
schemes but that we bring along a strategic awareness of the
setting or context of each particular site.
We have recently added a former design manager from a
reputable national house builder to our team to further improve
our approach and quality of service to these Private Sector
Clients.

15. Residential – PFI
Kirklees Excellent Homes for Life PFI
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Watson Batty are working alongside Regenter and Wates
Commercial/ Industrial
Living Space to deliver 500 new build Flats across over 30
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different sites within the Kirklees area. We are Lead
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designers for the General Needs and Wheelchair accessible
Leisure [Insert Picture Here] Flats. The units are all to be constructed to Code for
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Sustainable Homes level 4 – which is the largest of it’s kind
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The homes have been designed to meet the long-term
needs of occupants which are well laid out with good space
standards which will enable flexible use by the families who
live in them. The design of all units aims to achieve Lifetime
Homes Standard to meet the changing requirements of
tenants throughout their lives by making homes more
flexible, convenient, safe and accessible.

16. Residential – Sustainability & The Code
Sustainability
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We are exploring a number of Code for Sustainable Homes
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level 5 & 6 Carbon Neutral Projects with a number of our
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existing Clients to help them realise their ambitions of an
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alternative more sustainable housing product.
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We now also have our own in-house Code for Sustainable
Retail Homes Assessor who is already increasing our awareness
and design quality for these new schemes.

17. Relevant Residential Sector Experience
Watson Batty Architects have over 10 years experience of
working in the Residential sector.
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Commercial/ Industrial We have completed projects from minor refurbishment and
Education extensions to major new build schemes and multi million pound
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estate master plans.
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Residential Our clients include partners from both the public and private
Retail sectors, and range from Local Authorities, ALMOs, RSLs, Housing
associations, Developer partners, Speculative house builders and
Private clients.
The residential sector accounts for nearly 25% of our current
work load and has been a steadily growing sector over the last
few years.

18. Community Consultation
Our expertise in the sensitive area of community consultation
helps us to achieve collaborative solutions that will help promote
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a harmonious community spirit and avoid social exclusion. As
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part of our approach, we generally hold regular meetings with
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the community and local stakeholders, and produce interim
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reports to feedback on progress.
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Residential Visioning days to explore projects, community planning days and
Retail workshops, and ‘walking the area’ to pinpoint problems and
highlight opportunities are other essential tools that we use to
build up the appropriate local strategy.
Consultation proves particularly effective in helping to ensure
that the process of procuring project is much smoother as
potential community issues have been addressed at an early
stage.

19. Efficiencies and Relevance of Information
Insert site • Format of drawings
drawing – • Flow of information
Company Profile which one?? • Electronic data sharing
Commercial/ Industrial
Education • ‘web based’ share file
Health • Reduce office costs/waste
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• Standard database of details
Retail • Utilising planning information for marketing
• 3D images and ‘fly-throughs’ etc.

20. Moving Forward….
• We are a customer focused practice
• We adopt a culture of communication, review and
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Commercial/ Industrial
Education
• We explore better ways to provide a high quality
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• Revit - the 3D co-ordination software.

21. Summary
• We understand:
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- Context
Commercial/ Industrial
Education - Regeneration
Health - Estate planning
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- Affordability
Retail - Commercial issues
- Legislation
- How to deliver

22. Staff Experience – Design & Policy
Richard Merrills Director
Richard is a Chartered Architect and Director at
Company Profile Watson Batty Architects Limited leading the Housing &
Commercial/ Industrial
Regeneration Team. He has a major influence on
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design strategy and technical quality on a number of
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projects.
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Richard has undertaken a variety of public and private
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sector residential projects, procured via Design &
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Build, traditional and PFI routes. He has led the PFI
bids for Excellent Homes for Life in Kirklees and the
Little London, Beeston Hill and Holbeck Housing
Leeds.
He has also completed some large masterplanning
regeneration commissions, which involve extensive
public consultation, as part of New Deal, HMR
Pathfinder and SRB funded initiatives.

23. Staff Experience - Design
Matthew Lobley – Chartered Architect
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Commercial/ Industrial Matthew has a wealth of design experience in a variety
Education of sectors from Education, Healthcare, Commercial
Health through to Residential.
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Residential He is currently the Project Architect assuming the
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element of the Kirklees Excellent Homes for Life for
Wates Living Space and Regenter.
Matthew is well equipped to deal with large complex
projects and organising the whole design and
construction team.

24. Staff Experience - Design
Stephen Jones – Chartered Architect
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Commercial/ Industrial Stephen has worked on award winning environmental
Education and sustainable projects for the past ten years as
Health architect and Code for Sustainable Homes/ EcoHomes
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Retail The emergence of PassivHaus and AECB Gold standard
has informed design decisions, looking at the key
principles of air-tightness, continuity of insulation and
improvements in quality onsite.
Stephen has worked on a wide range of projects from
residential schemes to community buildings and he is
instrumental in creating good quality designs to meet
and exceed current legislation.

25. Staff Experience - Design
Catherine Blain Architect
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Catherine is a Project Architect with design skills and a
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Education
strong track record for good project delivery. She has
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undertaken a wide variety of projects in the residential,
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has a specific expertise and commitment to
Retail sustainability issues. She has recently been an
instrumental member of the design team for the Little
London, Beeston Hill and Holbeck Housing PFI bid in
Leeds. She was project architect for the Rutland Lodge
Medical Centre in Leeds which was chosen by CABE as
an exemplar healthcare building.

26. Staff Experience – Technical Delivery
Keith Southernwood Senior Architectural Technician
Keith joined the Housing and Regeneration team at Watson
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Batty in 2008 and is involved in the day to day co-
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ordination of production of design and construction
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information, together with specifications; key stage
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revisions; review of design sub-contractors proposals,
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consultation and co-ordination with other Design Team
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consultants. He has a wide range of experience in Public
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and Private Sector Housing having worked for a number of
National Developers at head office and regional level. In
his role of Design Manager he has had to deal with
schemes through the complete construction process. This
has included; contributing to land appraisals, co-ordinating
the various planning stages as well as negotiating building
control approvals. His experience and technical knowledge
is of a high standard to suit the needs of both the clients
and contractors.

27. Staff Experience - Technical Delivery
Chris Miller Senior Architectural Technician
Chris is part of the Housing and Regeneration Team
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Commercial/ Industrial
at Watson Batty, involved in: the production of
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design and construction information; specifications;
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key stage revisions; review of design sub-contractors
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Residential Design Team consultants.
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Chris is a key member of the team dealing with
public and private sector housing schemes from pre-
planning stage through to building control, ensuring
that the technical information is of a high standard to
suit the needs of the clients and contractor.
His key clients to date have been Strata Construction,
Pennine Housing 2000, Firebird JVC, Sadeh Lok H.A.,
and Richardson Projects.

28. Staff Experience - Technical Delivery
Tom Sykes – Architectural Technician
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Commercial/ Industrial Tom is part of the Housing and Regeneration Team at
Education Watson Batty. Involved in the production of design and
Health construction information. Tom is a key member of the
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Residential housing schemes pre-planning stage through to
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He provides great support to our project architects
ensuring that the technical information is of a high
standard to suit the needs of the clients and contractor.
Tom has recently taken schemes through to completion
on site with Bramall Construction, Sadeh Lok H.A., and
Pennine Housing 2000.

29. Staff Experience - Technical Delivery
Marc Kirwin Senior Architectural Technician
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Commercial/ Industrial Marc is an Architectural Technologist and a key
Education member of the Housing and Regeneration Team.
Health Coming from a specialist Contractor background, his
Leisure [Insert Picture Here] strengths lie in dealing with details on site, resolving
Residential queries and ensuring technical quality on a number of
Retail projects. He has undertaken a wide variety of projects
ranging from residential, commercial use, private sector
development, Health Authority schemes, Ultra Clean
Operating Theatres Suites and Clean Room design. He
acts as a hands-on liaison between clients, developer
contractors, local authorities, design consultants, M&E
Contractors and specialist manufacturers.