Heworth Green Ventures are developing a £12m major new office development in the centre of York, design by P+HS, which has just received planning consent.

The development provides over 60,000 square feet of lettable commercial space and houses a replacement for the Minster Medical Practice on the ground floor. The design is highly sustainable, with considerable thought into carbon emissions, using natural ventilation and the use of off-site fabrication for the external skin. The first 20,000 square foot phase has already been let to Hunters.

The whole site is being developed collaboratively between Heworth Green Ventures and Persimmon Homes. The former car park was heavily contaminated and the site had to be excavated to a depth of around 4m with all contaminated spoil removed from site. Rather than fill the site back in again, a basement car park for over 200 cars has been created with a single ramped access.

Work has already started on the piling with the main construction due to start in Autumn 2006.

The site is completed with a high quality landscape scheme and the provision of the first phase of the new link road across to Layerthorp.

The development is being constructed by Tolent Construction, with engineers Alan Wood and Partners.